During an interview aired on Monday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Democratic Georgia gubernatorial nominee Keisha Lance Bottoms responded to a question on whether she’ll work with federal immigration authorities on violent criminals by pointing to ending Atlanta’s relationship with ICE during her tenure as the city’s mayor and saying that “we don’t have a problem with lawful immigration tactics that are respectful, that are responsible, that aren’t wreaking havoc in our communities. But that’s not what we’re seeing from Donald Trump’s ICE.”
Co-host Joe Mathieu asked, “You have a long track record, Mayor Bottoms, of opposing immigration enforcement, going back to the president’s first term when you were mayor of Atlanta. Will you seek to ban ICE enforcement from the state, or as governor, would you work with federal authorities when it comes to enforcement, particularly for violent criminals?”…