<p>Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to start deporting illegal immigrants during his first months in office. ;</p>
<p>Early on in his campaign, the billionaire promised to create a &ldquo;deportation task force&rdquo; within ICE to locate and remove the 11 million illegals currently living in the US. Trump later softened his stance, explaining that his initial plans would be &ldquo;focused on identifying and quickly removing the most dangerous criminal illegal aliens in America.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>Speaking at a news conference on Wednesday, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that he would not be handing over the city&rsquo;s database of undocumented immigrants without a &ldquo;real fight.&rdquo; The alleged database contains the identities of more than 850,000 immigrants currently living in New York. These individuals have a &ldquo;city municipal ID card,&rdquo; but do not have legal immigration status.</p>
<p>The IDNYC card, first offered in 2015, is free and official proof of one&rsquo;s identity. <em>Applicants are not required to disclose their immigration status to obtain a card. ;</em></p>
<p>The IDNYC card database includes names, dates of birth, and addresses. &ldquo;It cannot be disclosed to federal law enforcement or immigration authorities without permission from the city&rsquo;s human resources administration,&rdquo; reports CNN.</p>
<p>Trump &ldquo;can change some federal laws, but the Constitution protects a lot of the rights and powers of localities,&rdquo; said de Blasio. The mayor insisted that &ldquo;personal privacy is going to be respected&rdquo; and cited a provision of the ID law that would allow him to scrub the entire list by the end of the year.</p>
<p>&ldquo;As you know, there&rsquo;s been an ongoing plan regardless of any electoral activity how long records are kept. Given this new reality we&rsquo;re certainly going to assess how we should handle it,&rdquo; de Blasio added. When asked about Trump&rsquo;s plans to cut off funding to sanctuary cities &ndash; such as NYC &ndash; de Blasio replied, &ldquo;We will do everything we know how to resist that.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>Trump and de Blasio have never enjoyed a positive relationship. The mayor has accused Trump of being a racist and a fascist, and the billionaire has stated the de Blasio is &ldquo;probably the worst mayor in the history of NYC.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>De Blasio changed his tune slightly after Trump&rsquo;s victory on Tuesday, telling his audience at City Hall that he would &ldquo;happily invite him [Trump] to dinner to have a conversation.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I take his platform and his vision very seriously,&rdquo; continued de Blasio. &ldquo;And I think it&rsquo;s in many ways very dangerous. That being said, one has the distinct impression that some of that was just for show. So we&rsquo;re going to find out.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:</strong> The federal government doesn&#8217;t need de Blasio&#8217;s cooperation, but the withholding of federal funds for &#8220;sanctuary cities&#8221; will be very real. Trump will win that fight.</p>