Trumpxecutive Order, Sanctuary Cities: On Wednesday Donald Trump signed an executive order with the intent on stemming the flow of illegal immigrants and purging them from "sanctuary cities". Part of the strategies employed by the commander and chief is to defund sanctuary cities and counties by making it so they are "ineligible for federal grants" so that he can starve them for money and then they are forced to shut down and comply with the Executive Order. Cities that are considered sanctuaries include Seattle, Portland, Olympia, Tacoma, Eugene, Springfield, Grants Pass, Medford, San Francisco, and San Jose. Oregon and California are both even considered sanctuary states.

By signing these orders Trump will be cutting funding in these cities that would go to homeless shelters, hospitals, schools, colleges, and other federally funded programs that the people use to survive. If a city were to lose fundings then likely they would reallocate funds to the more important services provided to the people but there would still be a loss to something and it would severely disadvantage the people who live in and around these cities. Disregarding the potential unconstitutionality of the order, the people shouldn't have to be in the position that this order puts them in. We at the Cascading Independence Party and CascadiaNow support all of our people regardless of their affiliation with us and as such, for as long as the cities have their funding cut due to defiance, we propose stepping up and opening and running soup kitchens, assisting in funding park upkeep jobs as there has been a hiring freeze and we should help people find jobs and protect our environment, and help by building other projects for people to partake in and have them openly put on by the CIP and CascadiaNow so as to help our people and bring massive attention to our movement; allow us to be the ones to save the people when they have been shunned and scorned by their government. I would like to clarify that this is just ideas that some of us have brain stormed but very much would like your input on these ideas and to hear yours if you have some. The potential silver lining to this is it may(and does) put pressure on our local governments to keep our money within our states and to more objectionably react to the Trump administration and thus using this as a springboard to independence. This order may leave people disgruntled and put out by the government as they are poorer and we must be there to help other Cascadians in their time of need.