Sanctuary City: York and Fred Dixon

sanctuary city: We recognize there are challenges at the border at the moment, Fred Dixon said by phone from New York before the trip, according to Huffington Post Canada. Tourists pause to view the Statue of Liberty from the deck of a Liberty Island ferry boat at Battery Park in New York in 2013. The head of New York City's official tourism organization, NYC & Company, minces no words in admitting he's keen to counter a little bit of the negative rhetoric that is coming out of Washington. Photo Mike Segar/Reuters We want to remind everyone that New York City is welcoming and that we are a diverse and safe city, a sanctuary city like Toronto, and we value the same things. And then Trump started railing against Canada in recent weeks, with attacks targeting dairy farmers, softwood lumber subsidies and the North American Free Trade Agreement. A supposed Trump slump has yet to be verified by hard data, but anecdotal evidence abounds of would-be travellers vowing to avoid the U.S. Dixon said New York's allure plummeted after Trump unveiled a barrage of proposed anti-immigrant policies that included a ban on travel from certain Muslim-majority countries. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.