Breitbart / Big-Government
by Ian Mason
11/23/2017
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So-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions are cities, counties, and now even whole states that have policies designed to hinder federal agents attempts to catch and deport illegal aliens.
Before your liberal relatives and guests start talking about how we need sanctuary policies “to build trust” and how the Trump administration’s efforts to rein them in are unconstitutional, here are seven big things you should know.
1. Sanctuary jurisdictions deliberately hamper immigration enforcement, and they’re growing.
Sanctuary cities in America started in the 1980s, when San Francisco began to protect criminals and arrestees held in their jails from what was then called the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). From that seed grew a body of over 300 cities, counties, and states that openly declare, in stated ordinances, policies, or state laws, that they will refuse to inform federal authorities about illegals in their custody, ignore Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “detainer” requests and release illegals – even those still due back to face criminal charges – right back into the communities they were arrested in, or even prohibit their own employees and law enforcement officers, on pain of dismissal, to even ask about whether someone is an illegal alien.
The current controversy over sanctuary cities came when the newly inaugurated President Donald Trump issued his executive order on interior enforcement, claiming, “Sanctuary jurisdictions across the United States willfully violate Federal law in an attempt to shield aliens from removal from the United States. These jurisdictions have caused immeasurable harm to the American people and to the very fabric of our Republic.”
The move immediately set off a wave lawsuits from sanctuary jurisdictions and inspired entire states to openly declare they will join the ranks of jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with ICE. These include the entire state of Illinois.
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