Trump administration officials sought to bus detained immigrants to so-called sanctuary cities as a way to retaliate against the president's adversaries, officials said Thursday. The Washington Post, which first reported the proposals, said lawyers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement rejected the idea as inappropriate. The Post quoted DHS officials as saying the administration sought to release detainees in the San Francisco-based district of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and in other strongly Democratic districts. It said the White House told ICE that the plan was partly meant to conserve jail space but also partly to "send a message to Democrats." Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, was arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London early Thursday morning at the request of the United States. Assange has been accused of conspiring with Chelsea Manning to break into a classified U.S. government computer, which led to "one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States," according to the indictment filed by the Justice Department. Assange was literally carried out by British authorities after living for seven years in the embassy. How is all is this connected to the Russia investigation? Tomorrow marks 100 days since the Democrats took the majority in the House. How will they mark the day? Watch MSNBC tomorrow. |