Pittsburg Mayor Ed Gainey said his administration will not cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who have begun deporting criminal illegal immigrants, the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette reported this week.

“I am not going to be working with ICE. My administration will not work with ICE,” said Gainey, speaking in a downtown Harrisburg hotel to the Pennsylvania Press Club. “We will do whatever is necessary to make our city more welcoming.”

Gainey’s statement comes a week after President Donald Trump has begun implementing his mass deportation of criminal migrants as the nation’s liberal mayors grapple with the new reality of life under border czar Tom Homan.

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