My 4 year psychological survival plan for my wife and I. added - THANK YOU All. I am stunned!

[Liberty Belle]

71. I disagree. We need to focus on local politics to obstruct the Trump agenda- here's a big example:

In El Cajon, a city here in CA, the Mayor and Council are considering a resolution saying they will fully cooperate with ICE on mass deportations.

It's been delayed 2 weeks after a bunch of Latino activists spoke out emotionally at the Council meeting, so Council sent it back to staff to soften the wording but not enough. Two Counclmembers oppose this but 3 are hellbent on pushing it through. One who opposes it likened this to when his mother was in Czechoslovakia in 1939 and the Nazis took over; her boss who was Jewish was taken away and never heard from again.

At least one speaker threatened legal action if the city starts handing over immigrants who haven't been convicted of crimes, and he's sued cities before on behalf of immigrants.

Next meeting I understand there will be a large protest rally outside Council chambers, hopefully with hundreds of people, plus petitions, and speakers promising to return every meeting if this is passed.

I believe ultimately this will be blocked. One of the Councilmembers in favor is a Republican in a majority Latino district; he won't be reelected if he does this, most likely.

The city argues that it's caught between federal law and Trump threatening cities and police if they don't cooperate,vs. the state of Calif. that has a law prohibiting police and cities from cooperating with ICE, except when someone has been convicted of a serious felony (and there's a list of which felonies are considered serious, like murder and rape.)

Kudos to the neighboring city of La Mesa's police chief, who when asked about this issue, said "We're following state law. That's it."

El Cajon's Mayor is grandstanding likely in hopes of landing a Trump administration appointment, while ignoring the very real fears of his constituents in a city that is now a majority of minorities including Latinos, MIddle Eastern immigrants, as well as Blacks and Asians, many of whom came here as immigrants or refugees.

Of course we all need to take breaks from the all-bad-news-all-the time situation, but if we all bury our heads in the sand, bad things will happen that we DO have the power to prevent at the local level.

Our county has over 150,000 undocumented immigrants,most of whom have committed no crimes and many were brought here as children, Dreamers. Every one of us should be taking action to assure that our local cities and counties will do everything possible to protect these folks.

There are many other ways we can make a difference locally, if not nationally. The city I live in just passed an aggressive climate action plan--we can still take steps to slow climate change in our own communities.

Remember that Republicans have only a 2 vote majority in the House. If 2 Republicans vote no, or just sit out a vote, they can't pass legislation. It's even possible someone could get fed up enough to change parties or retire early, enabling Dems to flip the house sooner than 2 years.

Yes, many things seem hopeless and Trump will succeed at many bad actions. But we can and should still try to block what we can. My focus right now is on saving lives of immigrants here at home, to the maximum extend possible.