The Latest: Trump lashes out at mayors over immigration
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and sanctuary cities (all times local):
3:55 p.m.
President Donald Trump says mayors who boycotted a White House event over an administration crackdown on so-called sanctuary cities are placing the needs of illegal immigrants above citizens.
"We can't have it," Trump says. "We want a safe country."
Trump is welcoming a bipartisan group of local leaders to a meeting initially billed as a discussion of infrastructure, drug addiction and other topics. Trump noted the absence of invitees like New Orleans' Mitch Landrieu and New York's Bill de Blasio. Landrieu, the president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, called the meeting "untenable.