Mayors from sanctuary cities testify before Congress
3 weeks ago

Mayors from sanctuary cities testify before Congress

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Republican members of Congress hammered four Democratic mayors Wednesday about their so-called sanctuary city policies, accusing them of endangering Americans and threatening to prosecute local officials. Republicans repeatedly highlighted a handful of brutal crimes committed by immigrants who crossed illegally into the U.S., with Rep. James Comer opening the hearings by saying the policies “only create sanctuary for criminals.” But the Democratic mayors — Michelle Wu of Boston, Brandon Johnson of Chicago, Mike Johnston of Denver and Eric Adams of New York — defended their policies as legal, even as they seemed to carefully avoid using the term “sanctuary.” Mayors Michelle Wu of Boston, Brandon Johnson of Chicago, Mike Johnston of Denver and Eric Adams of New York are set to appear in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. It’s grandstanding.” There’s no legal definition for sanctuary city policies, but they generally limit cooperation by local law enforcement with federal immigration officers. AP AUDIO: Mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York defend ‘sanctuary’ policies in congressional hearing AP Washington correspondent Sagar Meghani reports on four big city mayors testifying before Congress about so-called sanctuary cities. “We cannot let pro-criminal alien policies and obstructionist sanctuary cities continue to endanger American communities and the safety of federal immigration enforcement officers,” Comer said Wednesday.

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Immigration: Republicans say these cities are breaking the law. Are they?
2 weeks ago

Immigration: Republicans say these cities are breaking the law. Are they?

Slate  

Slate is offering six months of Slate Plus to current and recently laid-off federal government employees. If you or someone you know has been affected, Republicans would have you believe that Chicago, New York, and Boston are breaking the law by restricting how local law enforcement can cooperate with federal agents. But these cities’ ability to independently make decisions about …

‘Sanctuary cities’ hearing: Takeaways from the congressional grilling of mayors on immigration
3 weeks ago

‘Sanctuary cities’ hearing: Takeaways from the congressional grilling of mayors on immigration

CNN  

CNN — The mayors of four “sanctuary cities” faced tough questions from lawmakers about their policies toward immigrants and how they work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday. “The pro-illegal alien mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver, and New York City have implemented reckless, illegal policies that shield criminal aliens from federal …

Mayors from Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York defend ‘sanctuary’ policies, call their cities safe
3 weeks ago

Mayors from Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York defend ‘sanctuary’ policies, call their cities safe

LA Times  

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, from left, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu appeared before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Republicans have repeatedly highlighted crimes committed by immigrants who crossed illegally into the U.S., with committee Chairperson James Comer opening the hearings by saying the policies “only create sanctuary …

Republicans target 4 ‘sanctuary’ cities as Trump pushes mass deportations
3 weeks, 1 day ago

Republicans target 4 ‘sanctuary’ cities as Trump pushes mass deportations

Associated Press  

▶ Follow live updates on President Donald Trump and his new administration. WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress are taking aim at four cities — often called “sanctuary cities” — over their policies limiting cooperation with immigration enforcement with a hearing this week that comes as President Donald Trump presses ahead with his campaign of mass deportations. Here’s a look at …

Republicans target 4 ‘sanctuary’ cities as Trump pushes mass deportations
3 weeks, 1 day ago

Republicans target 4 ‘sanctuary’ cities as Trump pushes mass deportations

LA Times  

Republicans in Congress are taking aim at four cities — often called “sanctuary cities” — over their policies limiting cooperation with immigration enforcement with a hearing this week that comes as President Trump presses ahead with his campaign of mass deportations. Here’s a look at the immigration policies and migration trends of the cities whose mayors will appear Wednesday: Boston …

Revealed: Eric Adams' lawyer's letter sheds light on offer made to Trump
1 month, 1 week ago

Revealed: Eric Adams' lawyer's letter sheds light on offer made to Trump

Raw Story  

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has adamantly insisted he never made any quid pro quo arrangement with Justice Department officials in the Donald Trump administration on immigration policy in exchange for the public corruption case against him being dismissed. The letter, flagged by Politico's Kyle Cheney, was sent out on February 3, but was only today filed on the …

San Francisco sues Trump administration over crackdown on sanctuary cities
1 month, 2 weeks ago

San Francisco sues Trump administration over crackdown on sanctuary cities

LA Times  

In the latest national battle over immigration, San Francisco on Friday announced it is filing a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s recent directives to prosecute local officials who impede deportation efforts and to withhold federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities. A Jan. 21 Justice Department memo warns local jurisdictions that “federal law prohibits state and local actors from resisting, …

Trump administration sues Chicago in latest crackdown on ‘sanctuary’ cities
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Trump administration sues Chicago in latest crackdown on ‘sanctuary’ cities

Associated Press  

CHICAGO — The Trump administration sued Chicago on Thursday alleging that ‘sanctuary’ laws in the nation’s third-largest city “thwart” federal efforts to enforce immigration laws. “We won’t hesitate to respond if the Trump administration attempts to delay or unlawfully condition vital public safety funding for state and local law enforcement,” he said in a statement. “This is yet another attempt …

New AG Pam Bondi uses her first day in office to ban federal funds from heading to 'Sanctuary Cities‘
1 month, 2 weeks ago

New AG Pam Bondi uses her first day in office to ban federal funds from heading to 'Sanctuary Cities‘

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Hours after she was sworn in, Attorney General Pam Bondi …

Trump administration sues Chicago in latest crackdown on ‘sanctuary cities’
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Trump administration sues Chicago in latest crackdown on ‘sanctuary cities’

LA Times  

Immigrants from Venezuela take shelter at a Chicago police station. The Trump administration sued Chicago on Thursday, alleging that sanctuary laws in the nation’s third-largest city “thwart” federal efforts to enforce immigration laws. “We won’t hesitate to respond if the Trump administration attempts to delay or unlawfully condition vital public safety funding for state and local law enforcement,” he said …

Santa Ana takes another look at sanctuary city advisory group
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Santa Ana takes another look at sanctuary city advisory group

LA Times  

When Donald Trump first won election as president, Santa Ana responded in 2016 by declaring itself a “sanctuary city” for undocumented immigrants. With Trump back in office and vowing to carry out the “largest deportation operation in American history,” Santa Ana remains Orange County’s only such city. “This is one small way that we can directly have a positive impact …

House Republicans call Denver mayor to testify on ’sanctuary city’ policies
1 month, 3 weeks ago

House Republicans call Denver mayor to testify on ’sanctuary city’ policies

Raw Story  

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston is one of four big city mayors called by congressional Republicans to testify at a hearing next month on so-called “sanctuary city” policies. Plans for the hearing, scheduled for Feb. 11, were announced Monday by House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, who called it part of an investigation into “misguided and obstructionist …

Mayor called to testify on sanctuary status
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Mayor called to testify on sanctuary status

Politico  

Mayor called to testify on sanctuary status Presented by Good Tuesday morning, Illinois. RELATED Tears from families as ICE releases little information about who is detained or why they were sought, by the Sun-Times and WBEZ team Suburban police navigating conflicting state, federal directives on immigration crackdown, by the Daily Herald’s Marni Pyke Dr. Phil’s unrestricted access in a high-stakes …

Dem mayors plot their next moves after House Oversight launches probe into sanctuary cities
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Dem mayors plot their next moves after House Oversight launches probe into sanctuary cities

Politico  

In addition to Chicago and Boston, Comer sent his letter to mayor Eric Adams in New York City and Mayor Mike Johnston in Denver. The letter from Comer is the latest effort by the White House and Republicans to target sanctuary cities, which generally resist working with the federal government on immigration arrests, since President Donald Trump took office last …

Federal agents in immigration operations told to be camera-ready as hundreds arrested
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Federal agents in immigration operations told to be camera-ready as hundreds arrested

CNN  

CNN — The Trump administration’s immigration sweeps that included more than 2,000 arrests in two days and have chilled many immigrant communities were followed by another blitz: A barrage of video and photos from the federal government showing agents in tactical gear and vests emblazoned with “Police ICE” and “Homeland Security” taking cuffed suspects away. Former acting director of ICE …

‘Scare tactic’ Trump memo threats sanctuary cities with charges if they don’t go along with deportation order
2 months ago

‘Scare tactic’ Trump memo threats sanctuary cities with charges if they don’t go along with deportation order

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Though it doesn’t mention such jurisdictions by name, the document is the latest statement …

US Justice Department orders probe into local officials who defy Trump's immigration crackdown
2 months ago

US Justice Department orders probe into local officials who defy Trump's immigration crackdown

New Indian Express  

In Chicago, which has some of the strongest sanctuary protections nationwide, city leaders brushed off word of potential investigations. "If the federal government is going to investigate, that is their prerogative," said Alderman Andre Vasqez, who is Mayor Brandon Johnson's handpicked chair of the City Council immigration committee. New York's police department, for example, told employees in a memo that …

Column: Can Trump strong-arm sanctuary cities into helping with deportations? He’s trying
2 months ago

Column: Can Trump strong-arm sanctuary cities into helping with deportations? He’s trying

LA Times  

Hello and happy Thursday. As my colleague Tony Barboza aptly detailed, one of Trump’s first executive orders on Monday included language “to ensure that so-called ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions, which seek to interfere with the lawful exercise of Federal law enforcement operations, do not receive access to Federal funds.” The order was followed by a memo from Trump’s new Department of Justice …

Trump’s order to cut off funding to sanctuary cities could threaten L.A. fire relief
2 months ago

Trump’s order to cut off funding to sanctuary cities could threaten L.A. fire relief

LA Times  

As Los Angeles rebuilds from a devastating wildfire that destroyed swaths of Pacific Palisades, the city’s access to federal money could be imperiled by one of President Trump’s first-day immigration actions targeting “sanctuary cities.” An executive order that Trump signed Monday, shortly after he was sworn in, directs federal officials to take actions “to ensure that so-called ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions, which …

Trump-allied group’s warnings may signal legal blueprint to attack ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions
2 months, 1 week ago

Trump-allied group’s warnings may signal legal blueprint to attack ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions

Associated Press  

The ominous letters went to hundreds of state and local officials across the U.S. two days before Christmas. “Sanctuary laws don’t shield or harbor or conceal quote-unquote ‘illegal aliens,’” said Mark Fleming, a lawyer with the Chicago-based National Immigration Justice Center, a pro-immigration group. “Employees in your jurisdiction involved in implementing sanctuary policies that prevent federal immigration officers from carrying …

Top Trump advisor warns California cities not to block immigration enforcement
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Top Trump advisor warns California cities not to block immigration enforcement

LA Times  

California officials, along with dozens of others across the country, received letters this week from Stephen Miller’s nonprofit, America First Legal, warning them of the consequences for interfering with or impeding illegal immigration enforcement. The notices come as Trump’s incoming “border czar,” Tom Homan, the former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, suggested on Fox News that city …

America’s biggest ‘sanctuary city’ opens the doors to Trump’s border czar
3 months, 1 week ago

America’s biggest ‘sanctuary city’ opens the doors to Trump’s border czar

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Tom Homan met with the Democratic mayor days after telling Democratic officials to “get …

Adams cites common ground with Trump’s incoming border czar while slamming the media
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Adams cites common ground with Trump’s incoming border czar while slamming the media

Politico  

“We will not be a safe haven for those who commit violent acts,” the mayor told reporters curtly, hours after the sitdown in the mayor’s official residence of Gracie Mansion. Homan has told sanctuary city mayors to “get the hell out of the way” of Trump’s mass deportation plans and commended Adams. “We have the same desire to go after …

Why New Sanctuary City Laws Won’t Be Enough
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Why New Sanctuary City Laws Won’t Be Enough

Slate  

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Many immigration advocates are celebrating the Los Angeles City Council’s unanimous passage of a “sanctuary city” ordinance on Wednesday, expressing hope that such laws will protect millions of undocumented immigrants and their citizen family members from Trump’s threats of …

Eyeing Trump, Los Angeles adopts 'sanctuary city' rules
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Eyeing Trump, Los Angeles adopts 'sanctuary city' rules

Raw Story  

The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday voted to adopt "sanctuary city" status for America's second biggest metropolis, as liberal jurisdictions gird for Donald Trump's return to the White House. Wednesday's vote was passed with an urgency clause that would allow it to come into effect in as little as 10 days after Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass signs off …

These local sheriffs are already preparing to help Trump carry out his mass deportation plans
3 months, 3 weeks ago

These local sheriffs are already preparing to help Trump carry out his mass deportation plans

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Trump is also likely to get support from the insurgent “constitutional sheriff” movement, a …

Trump prepares to block funding for sanctuary cities in pursuit of mass deportation
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump prepares to block funding for sanctuary cities in pursuit of mass deportation

Salon  

President-elect Donald Trump's advisors are drawing up plans to strip federal funding from cities that do not comply with the administration's deportation policies, three sources familiar with the conversations told The Washington Post. “I’m certainly not going to compromise our local police department’s work by adding a component of their work that is not just.” We need your help to …

Trump Advisers Brainstorming Ways To Cut Sanctuary City Funding: Report
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump Advisers Brainstorming Ways To Cut Sanctuary City Funding: Report

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump are thinking up ways to cut federal funding to cities that do not cooperate with his plans to root out and deport immigrants lacking permanent legal status, according to a Tuesday report in The Washington Post. Cities receive federal funding like grants for a variety of services, such as public transportation, affordable …

LA enacts sanctuary city ordinance to prepare for potential mass deportations under Trump
4 months ago

LA enacts sanctuary city ordinance to prepare for potential mass deportations under Trump

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday approved a so-called “sanctuary city” ordinance that bars city resources from being used for immigration enforcement and city departments from sharing information on people without legal status with federal immigration authorities, in anticipation of potential mass deportations under President-elect Donald Trump. “We’re going to send a very clear message that …

Woke 'Sanctuary City' mayor vows to defy Trump's mass deportation efforts
4 months, 1 week ago

Woke 'Sanctuary City' mayor vows to defy Trump's mass deportation efforts

Daily Mail  

The mayor of Boston has promised to defy president-elect Donald Trump's mass deportation efforts in 'every possible way'. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has said the sanctuary city will continue to protect immigrants in 'every way possible' A 'close the border' rally in Boston earlier this year in May where hundreds attended calling for an end to border crossings, sanctuary cities, …

L.A. ‘sanctuary city’ law won’t prevent deportations. But ‘we are hardening our defenses’
4 months, 1 week ago

L.A. ‘sanctuary city’ law won’t prevent deportations. But ‘we are hardening our defenses’

LA Times  

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Los Angeles in 2020. Facing President-elect Donald Trump’s promised mass deportation of immigrants in the country illegally, the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday tentatively backed a “sanctuary city” law that forbids city employees and resources from being involved in federal immigration enforcement. The L.A. sanctuary city law, which was proposed in early …

Trump's border chief warns Democratic legislators: 'Get the hell out of our way'
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump's border chief warns Democratic legislators: 'Get the hell out of our way'

Firstpost  

Tom Homan’s blunt message came in response to reports that Democratic leaders in some cities and states are preparing to defy Trump’s plans to deport illegal immigrants, according to a report Tom Homan speaks as Donald Trump listens at a primary election night party in Nashua, N.H., on January 23, 2024. AP File President-elect Donald Trump’s newly appointed “border tsar” …

NYC Mayor Eric Adams calls for expanded cooperation between police and immigration authorities
1 year ago

NYC Mayor Eric Adams calls for expanded cooperation between police and immigration authorities

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams called Tuesday for expanded cooperation between local police and federal immigration authorities, attacking the current city policies limiting such communication as detrimental to public safety. The comments marked the mayor’s sharpest rebuke to date of so-called sanctuary laws adopted by New York over the last decade, which were meant to protect …

Chicago lawmakers are slammed for blocking efforts to put sanctuary city status on ballot after Windy City was inundated by 20,000 migrants
1 year, 3 months ago

Chicago lawmakers are slammed for blocking efforts to put sanctuary city status on ballot after Windy City was inundated by 20,000 migrants

Daily Mail  

Chicago's Democrat leaders have been accused of hiding from voters in a city buckling under a migrant crisis after they blocked a vote on ditching its sanctuary city status. Mayor Brandon Johnson ordered his lieutenants to quash a bid to put the controversial 'Welcoming City Ordinance' to a referendum on Chicago's March primary ballot. Mayor Brandon Johnson ordered his lieutenants …

Editorial: Sanctuary cities are working just fine, thank you
1 year, 9 months ago

Editorial: Sanctuary cities are working just fine, thank you

LA Times  

Ambar and her 10-year-old daughter, shown at MacArthur Park, were among the migrants bused from Texas to Los Angeles. Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida bused and flew migrants to Los Angeles, New York, Washington, D.C., and other so-called “sanctuary cities,” they might have envisioned they were exporting the same chaos as border states have experienced as …

L.A. City Council moves ‘sanctuary city’ ordinance forward
1 year, 9 months ago

L.A. City Council moves ‘sanctuary city’ ordinance forward

LA Times  

The Los Angeles City Council on Friday voted to toughen policies around the use of city resources for federal immigration enforcement. The law would also bar federal immigration authorities or other entities connected to immigration enforcement from accessing city databases or anyone’s personal data. L.A.’s proposal, referred by council members as a “sanctuary city” law, would essentially codify existing policies, …

3 City Council members want a law designating L.A. a ‘sanctuary city’
2 years ago

3 City Council members want a law designating L.A. a ‘sanctuary city’

LA Times  

Councilmembers Hugo Soto-Martinez, Eunisses Hernandez and Nithya Raman outside City Hall on Tuesday announcing a measure aimed at designating Los Angeles a “sanctuary city.” Soon after President Trump took office, Los Angeles immigration groups demanded that City Hall label L.A. a haven for immigrants in the face of his promised crackdown. The Los Angeles City Council ultimately passed a resolution …

Montana's Republican governor BANS sanctuary cities in his state
3 years, 11 months ago

Montana's Republican governor BANS sanctuary cities in his state

Daily Mail  

Montana Republican Governor Greg Gianforte signed a bill on Wednesday banning sanctuary cities in the state, despite the fact that Montana does not currently have any sanctuary cities. Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed into law a bill requiring local law enforcement agencies in the state to hand over any undocumented immigrants to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Opponents have …

ICE preparing targeted arrests in 'sanctuary cities'
4 years, 5 months ago

ICE preparing targeted arrests in 'sanctuary cities'

Daily Mail  

President Trump's administration is preparing to carry out an immigration enforcement blitz next month specifically targeting American cities that have adopted 'sanctuary' policies. Two officials told the Post anonymously that the operation is more about getting a political message across than a major operation by ICE, stressing that the agency is already working hard to combat violators of immigration policy …

Mayors Demand Congress Block Trump From Deploying Federal Agents To Cities
4 years, 7 months ago

Mayors Demand Congress Block Trump From Deploying Federal Agents To Cities

NPR  

Mayors Demand Congress Block Trump From Deploying Federal Agents To Cities Enlarge this image toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images Spencer Platt/Getty Images A group of six U.S. mayors on Monday penned a letter to Congress asking that it pass legislation to block the Trump administration from deploying federal law enforcement to cities without their officials' consent. The mayors of Chicago, …

Trump steps up threat to link federal bailout to states ending sanctuary city status
4 years, 10 months ago

Trump steps up threat to link federal bailout to states ending sanctuary city status

Daily Mail  

President Trump again tied state aid to ridding the country of so-called 'sanctuary cities,' where local jurisdictions don't play ball with federal immigration enforcement. President Trump again linked giving cash-strapped states federal funds to deal with the coronavirus crisis to them ending their so-called 'sanctuary city' status Sanctuary cities are jurisdictions that don't play ball with federal immigration enforcers like …

Donald Trump links bailout for states to ending 'sanctuary cities'
4 years, 10 months ago

Donald Trump links bailout for states to ending 'sanctuary cities'

Daily Mail  

President Trump tentatively said he was open to giving federal money to states whose budgets need help due to the coronvirus crisis - but they would have to fall in line with his policy agenda. Trump had spent Monday slamming U.S. cities and states seeking billions more dollars in federal aid to offset huge losses from the pandemic, suggesting that …

Trump threatens cities known to harbour undocumented migrants
5 years ago

Trump threatens cities known to harbour undocumented migrants

Al Jazeera  

United States President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will pull funds from so-called “sanctuary” cities and states that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities. His announcement on Twitter comes days after a US court ruled in favour of the Trump administration blocking federal law enforcement funding to “sanctuary” jurisdictions. That is what we’re advancing and is what we’re concerned …

Rights groups slam Trump’s attacks on ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions
5 years, 1 month ago

Rights groups slam Trump’s attacks on ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions

Al Jazeera  

Civil rights groups and immigration advocates slammed the Trump administration after it filed a series of lawsuits and issued measures against state and local governments that have enacted “sanctuary” policies. Meng said while sanctuary policies vary across cities and states, they are premised on the idea that we “cannot separate out immigrants in the community” and the rationale that undocumented …

Tucson voters overwhelmingly reject sanctuary city measure
5 years, 4 months ago

Tucson voters overwhelmingly reject sanctuary city measure

Associated Press  

TUCSON, Ariz. — Voters in one of Arizona’s most liberal cities rejected an initiative Tuesday that would have made Tucson the state’s only sanctuary city amid concerns that it went too far in restricting police officers. Tucson’s mayor and city council members, all of them Democrats, were opposed to the measure because they worried about unintended consequences and the potential …

California hits back as Trump threatens to ‘dump’ immigrants in ‘sanctuary cities’
5 years, 11 months ago

California hits back as Trump threatens to ‘dump’ immigrants in ‘sanctuary cities’

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom, speaking at a news conference on Friday in Rancho Cordova, has called President Trump’s proposal to send migrants to sanctuary cities and states nonsensical. L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti tweeted that immigrants “are people, not pawns,” Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf told Trump to stop fanning “hate and division,” and San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo called for “sensible solutions.” L.A. …

Op-Ed: Trump’s plan to release detained immigrants in ‘sanctuary cities’ won’t stand. Here’s why
5 years, 11 months ago

Op-Ed: Trump’s plan to release detained immigrants in ‘sanctuary cities’ won’t stand. Here’s why

LA Times  

President Trump’s threat to begin releasing detained immigrants in “sanctuary cities” seems like dirty politics, even in 2019. The Supreme Court has three times held that the federal government cannot coerce states and cities into assisting the federal government in the adoption or implementation of federal policies. The court held that the federal government cannot simply require states to implement …

Trump Administration Considers Transferring Immigrants to 'Sanctuary Cities'
5 years, 11 months ago

Trump Administration Considers Transferring Immigrants to 'Sanctuary Cities'

NPR  

Trump Administration Considers Transferring Immigrants to 'Sanctuary Cities' MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to start the program with the latest on an idea apparently being considered by the White House - to transfer detained asylum seekers and other would-be immigrants in so-called sanctuary cities. MARTIN: White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley is here with us now to tell us …

SANCTUARY CITIES - WHAT AND WHERE
5 years, 11 months ago

SANCTUARY CITIES - WHAT AND WHERE

Daily Mail  

Sanctuary cities - and states - are those which in broad terms protect illegal immigrants from deportation by federal authorities. But broadly, most sanctuary cities say that their police officers do not ask for immigration status, and do not report it to the federal authorities when they detain, arrest or process suspects. California is the biggest single sanctuary area, with …

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