Trump orders staff to send criminals to blue states

• Miles Taylor stated that Trump wanted criminals who were found at the border sent to Democrat-run areas.
• Taylor said Trump was specifically looking for “murderers”, and “rapists”, to be identified, and bussed out.
• Taylor claimed that Taylor didn’t need a lawyer to “recognize that this would likely be very unlawful to do.”

Miles Taylor, former chief of staff for the Department of Homeland Security during the Trump administration, stated this week that he once asked President Donald Trump to ask his team to find murderers and rapists at the border and have them sent to Democrat run cities.

Taylor made this statement During a CNN appearanceThis week, we weigh in on how Texas Governor Greg AbbottAnd Florida Gov. Ron DeSantisMigrants have been sent to New York City and Martha’s Vineyard from various countries.

Taylor is You are most well-known for the 2018 op ed article that you wrote in The New York Times that said there was a “resistance” within the Trump administration. He has since been A vocal criticFormer president 

Taylor stated to CNN that Donald Trump instructed Taylor in January and February 2019 to take immigrant from the border and, quote: ‘buse and dump them into Democratic Cities and Blue States’.

Taylor spoke of Trump as being “much more specific.” “He wanted to identify the murderers, rapists, criminals and to make sure they weren’t imprisoned. And so we did. 

Taylor provided details on the next steps of his team. 

It doesn’t take a genius or lawyer to see that this would be illegal. But put aside the murderers and the rapists and the criminals — could you take people from the border and just dump them into blue states?” He replied. “We went and asked the lawyers. They said: “No, the federal government can’t do that.”

Taylor recalled that Trump’s team had informed the White House it would be illegal to execute Trump’s plan. He said that DeSantis, Abbott and their other recent efforts were “walking into a similar problem”.

Taylor re-tweeted on Wednesday a thread from November 2020, in which he described the “foolish”, unethical and un-America things that Trump had asked him while in office. The top of the listTaylor claimed that Trump instructed Taylor to “bust thousands and thousands illegal immigrants (especially those who have criminal records) to Democratic Sanctuary Cities to create instability, and strife.”

“DeSantis & Abbott are resurrecting zombie Trump policies that we said were illegal (one of the reasons I quit & warned not to re-elect him),” Taylor SubmittedIn his tweet from Wednesday. “Trumpism is very much alive — and his acolytes are taking it to the next level.”

Insider reached out to representatives of Trump, DeSantis and Abbott but they did not respond immediately.