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As the upcoming presidential transition approaches, MSNBC Political Analyst Fernand Amandi expressed concerns about potential migration patterns and civil unrest during a segment on “The Beat.” He anticipates significant movement of immigrants toward sanctuary states and cities in the months leading up to Trump’s inauguration.
Liberal sanctuary cities in the U.S. are buckling under the strain of their own immigration policies. 🚨 In a dramatic shift, #NYC is now moving to scrap its sanctuary status. 💸 Is this the beginning of a larger trend? #SanctuaryCity pic.twitter.com/m1SjEvwsTo
— Redacted (@TheRedactedInc) June 24, 2024
During the broadcast, Amandi shared his perspective, stating, “I think you’re going to be seeing, over these next two months, before Donald Trump is sworn in as the next president, a movement all across the country, many immigrants are going to try, first, to go to these sanctuary states, sanctuary areas to try and seek some sort of respite, which will cause an issue of its own in those areas. So, it’s a dark time. There’s no sugarcoating this. I think…we have to be vigilant, we have to come together as Americans and do what we can. But this is, sadly, the consequence of an election that had the worst and most dire consequences.”
There is now an entire area full of AMERICAN CITIZENS forced to sleep in tents because the city diverted money to illegal migrant shelters https://t.co/FCDHn3dudL
— Gr8fulNurse 🩺 𝕏 (@Gr8fulSusan) November 8, 2024
The political analyst went further to discuss potential challenges to public demonstrations during a second Trump term. He remarked, “I don’t want to be a doomsayer. I’m not here to make people scared. But, unfortunately, it’s Donald Trump and the MAGA message which leads me to this position. … I hope that the American people are able to exercise their First Amendment-protected constitutional rights to peacefully protest. It’s just that, this time around, unlike in the first term, none of those guardrails that were there are going to exist. When there were protests in the first term, it was the chairman of the joint chiefs who said to the president, you cannot use the military, Mr. President, to intimidate or stop the free exercise of speech. This time around, I fully expect them to implement either the Insurrection Act or martial law or something that will try and stifle, immediately, those types of mass protests.”
