Boston City Council Member Ruthzee Louijeune Accuses Trump Of Leading A 'Failing Federal Government'

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During a press briefing event on Tuesday, Boston City Council Member Ruthzee Louijeune (D-MA) spoke about warnings sent to sanctuary cities by President Donald Trump.

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00:00Thank you, Senator Markey. Thank you, Mayor Wu. Thank you to everyone for being here.

00:08Boston is our city. This is our city. Now, I'm not a Baptist preacher, Reverend Brown,

00:15but I got to start with a little call and response. Whose city?

00:19Our city. Whose city? Our city.

00:23Whose city? Our city.

00:25Thank you. And I want to make sure that our president, the occupant of the White House,

00:30and I want to make sure the attorney general hear that this is our city and we can run our city.

00:36And we have been running our city. We are not going to be scared.

00:41We will not do what the president is doing every single day, engaging in bottom feeder politics,

00:47trying to use fear to make us think that we are doing something wrong when we know what works here in our city.

00:58We are a city for everyone, for the fifth generation Bostonian, for the person who recently came here.

01:10This is your city and you belong. We will say that every day.

01:16We will say that in every single language and we will mean it and we will put our resources behind it.

01:22Our immigrant communities are here, are working and are contributing to our community, to our city every day,

01:30to our tax space, to our hospitals, to our schools, and they are making our city safer every single day.

01:38We will not believe the lie and the hype about crime.

01:41We know, as the mayor has stated, that he is using these fear of crime to hide the fact that he cannot deliver for the American people,

01:49that he is failing every single day.

01:53Your groceries are not cheaper. Your kids are still having a hard time buying a home.

01:58School is too inaccessible for so many of our families, but yet he wants to lie about our American cities.

02:04He wants to lie on us in Boston and we will not have that.

02:07We will not have that here in our city. We will not have that here on the Boston City Council.

02:11And I am so glad that I am here with a supermajority of my colleagues.

02:15With Councillor Brayden, an immigrant from Ireland.

02:23With Councillor Coletta Zapata, whose parents are from Italy and Mexico.

02:27Councillor Durkin, with roots in Spain.

02:31Councillor Webber, from a Jewish family.

02:34Councillor Mejia, Santana, and Pepin, representing the Dominican Republic.

02:38Council World Round, representing Barbados and Jamaica.

02:44We are a city that is stronger because of all of who we are.

02:48And I am ever so proud, every single day, to be here to represent one of the most vibrant,

02:56one of the strongest immigrant communities that we have here in the city of Boston, the Haitian community.

03:01And my seven-year-old nephew is around here somewhere

03:07because it is important for him to see the city that we are trying to build every single day.

03:13And every single day we work a little bit harder.

03:16We try to do a little bit better than the day before.

03:19We are not saying that we are a perfect city, but we are working on it every single day.

03:22And we do not need to take any cues from a failing federal government.

03:26Not yesterday, not today, and not tomorrow.

03:31And on the Boston City Council, we will continue to do the work of every single neighborhood.

03:36From East Boston to Mattapan, from Mission Hill to Charlestown.

03:41And we will let you know that we represent you in every single way possible.

03:45And that we are going to continue to fight that the mayor talked about.

03:49One that believes in investing in childcare, in our schools, in housing.

03:53And believes that community safety works when our police officers are working with all of our communities,

04:00including our immigrant communities.

04:02And so I just want to make sure that people know that we are not backing down.

04:07That we know who we are and that we are going to continue in this fight.

04:10And we have this beautiful representation of people here, from labor, to our seniors, to our elected officials,

04:18to say that we are not backing down and that this is our city.

04:22And so, and so I'm going to start to our veterans, we got Haywood Fennell in the house.

04:32Think about this, we have a president who is cutting the veterans budget.

04:38Like, how lower can you go?

04:42And so, I want you to know that this Boston City Council, our mayor, our federal delegation,

04:47stand with you every single day.

04:49Because when we fight...

04:51We win!

04:52Cuando luchamos...

04:53Cuando luchamos...

04:54Cuando luchamos...

04:55La nubatai...

04:56We win!

04:57Okay, thank you.

04:58Y'all got to work on your cry-out.

04:59But thank you, everybody.

05:00Thanks, everybody.

Boston City Council Member Ruthzee Louijeune Accuses Trump Of Leading A 'Failing Federal Government'

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