Bang! A bullet left the chamber of a handgun, disrupting San-Francisco’s touristy promenade into chaos. Only one person was killed, an innocent woman named Kate Steinle. Kate was just walking with her father until Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez pulled the trigger which ended her nice pleasant stroll with her father and her life on that beautiful evening. The killer, Juan Francisco Lopez- Sanchez is an illegal immigrant that was never legally permitted to carry a firearm in the State of California in the first place, but somehow he got a hold of one and shot Kate Steinle in the back. He was deported to Mexico five times, and has a criminal record of committing several crimes, and recently murdering Kate Steinle(Sakuma). This event sparked national …show more content…
An “Illegal Immigrant” is someone who avoids inspection and/or overstays the period of time given to them as a tourist, business person, or a visitor(Dictonary.com). Illegal Immigrants need Sanctuary cities and open borders, but in reality, Sanctuary cites do not need Illegal Immigrants, and open borders because they are very well populated. According to Daily Signal, a news organization for society, news editor Josh Siegel posted a chart of the top U.S cities with the highest illegal population. The current population census in the top four sanctuary cities that are listed below are: Los Angeles, 4,041,707 people(Grad), New York City 8,537,637 people(ny.gov), Chicago 2,720,546 people (United States Census Bureau), and lastly Seattle, 684,451(Schlosser). Los Angeles and New York City, both have the highest estimated illegal population, and population census. So, if they do not put some effort in by making immigrants follow the legal process to become a citizen in the United States, then ICE will come and start deporting illegals which could decline Los Angeles, and New York City’s population drastically. Well, actually most city administrators think it is politically correct to have Sanctuary cities regardless of the consequences are looming around because it is a political agenda that Democrats favor more than the Republicans. Illegal Immigration and the …show more content…
Pastor John Fifie in Tucson, Arizona had a compassionate heart to shelter the vulnerable. “Pastor John Fifie believed that it was a right to protect the victims of human rights violations” (Sakuma). This sparked the interest of forming Sanctuaries for Illegal immigrants and refugees that did not want to go back to their old country due to poverty and violence. Later, ICE infiltrated the secret scheme that was taken place and arrested Pastor John Fifie, and few worship leaders for violating immigration laws and sentenced them for five years’ probation(Sakuma). Surprisingly, this took root and spread to city governments to help bring support to both illegal immigrants, and refugees. “In 1985, San Francisco passed a city ordinance that forbade city police or city magistrates from assisting Federal immigration officers”
Last week the City of Ithaca passed an ordinance to make the city a Sanctuary City. Local Congressman Tom Reed says sanctuary cities are not the right approach. "We should be focusing on the root cause of the problem, it's a border that's not functioning, that needs to be enforced to keep our American citizens safe so she has a safe environment upon which to thrive and achieve the American dream. So I think if we can adopt that common ground, if we can adopt that vision we can unite and solve the problem that is the root cause of this and thats
Undocumented immigrants often elicit the images of Mexican immigrants illegally crossing the border by car or by foot. Many Americans may also think of the soccer field immigrants at the border of Tijuana and San Diego, or the immigrants running away from the drug lords. While majority of undocumented immigrants in California are from Mexico, there are a number of other countries that have immigrants finding refuge in America that reside in all states. Undocumented immigrants are a wide group that may encompass the following people groups: asylum-seeking refugees, migrants from war torn countries that are not under a refugee status, and those that arrive at our borders hoping for a better life in America than in their home country. While
Most people’s families have that immigrated to America generations ago. Thus, they do not understand the difficulties of immigrating to America. In the last 2 decades. A young twelve-year old child came to America from India along with her two siblings, mother, and father in the 1980s. They were provided safe haven in New York, a sanctuary city, until their immigration process began. A sanctuary city like New York, does exactly what they for that family by providing protection for undocumented immigrants . These cities do so by refusing to follow federal detention requests. There exists a large demographic of people who disagree with the idea of sanctuary cities in America. Since this demographic is against the idea of undocumented immigration
Immigration remains the foreground of the United States; this happens to be one of the reasons it is known as the land of opportunity. Since the beginning, immigration has been a key concept in America, immigrants could settle down without fear of persecution. However, modern laws have seized this foundation and twisted it in such a way that it is a crime to migrate to the United States, under certain circumstances. Now, there only exists few options for immigrants to be naturalized and made permanent residents or citizens, which has left several with no other option except to break the law. This has caused an abundant number of undocumented immigrants to settle down in places, near the borders of the United States, such as Florida and Texas. The border states are closer to many of these immigrants’ home countries so they do not have to pay as much to get to a state such as California, which is another reason for the abundant number of immigrants in these states. Illegal immigrants should be allowed to reside in border states as they boost the economy, they offer inexpensive labor, and they make these states more culturally diverse.
Imagine you have a bowl of M&M’s and you have the option to eat as many or as few as you want. However, for every 1,000 M&M’s in the bowl there is one that is poisoned. Your odds are still good! Just pray you don’t get that one M&M that can end your life. While most would use common sense and say that eating the M&M’s are too risky, this game of life and death occurs when we allow illegal immigrants to stay in America. Sanctuary Cities are notorious for taking this risk and they have started seeing the result of eating the wrong M&M.
With important issues occurring every hour these days, more questions are being asked with them. One of those issues is Sanctuary Cities. A Sanctuary city is a city in which State and Local government do not follow immigration policy and do not actively seek and deport undocumented immigrants. Some could find that this Local policy hurts all Americans. Some could find this a moral obligation as a citizen of the United States. But by any means this topics has major implications to President Trumps policies and Federalism. And with these cities becoming more mainstream, question are becoming more relevant to other parts of government. There are direct effects on issues like cities health program, fight against opioids, and other local
First of all, the U.S Constitution protects these sanctuary cities. Since federal government and state government. If the city in the state decides to become a sanctuary city, there should be nothing in the way of them. The federal government shouldn’t intervene into something that they shouldn’t be in. Good relationships with local law enforcement and the people of the city documented or not, is essential in order for prosperous growth. When the people of the city and the law enforcement can help each other and communicate without fear of being deported or stripped from their family, then that city should be an example for all others. Protecting these undocumented immigrants from unjust Federal Immigration Laws should be one of the main goals. The government is taking the hard working people that have been here their entire lives. Trump’s idea of sanctuary cities is a bit blurry due to the fact that he only looks at crimes. Trump does not look at all the important things that undocumented people and families do like work the jobs that no one else wants to do. They do it efficiently as well, it’s not like if they do a bad job. Undocumented immigrants are actually working the fields putting all the food that other people use on their plates. As a matter of fact, now that Mr. Trump wants to build “a giant beautiful wall”, most of the people that will be actually building will
The history of the “sanctuary city” designation is vague in its origin and definition, the word sanctuary meant something to those refugees, and to a lot of congregations all over the country who provided them with shelter. As for today, the term has become charged and in some ways toxic. With hundreds of cities considered sanctuary jurisdictions, five states and 644 counties have policies limiting local law enforcement’s cooperation with federal
The new president has signed a lot of orders. There is one major topic that he talks about which is sanctuary cities and their fundings. In this essay, I’m going to talk about how Donald Trump is taking away funds from the sanctuary cities. This is happening because of the help they are giving to immigrants. The second thing is how these decision affects many immigrants and their families. I know that there’s a lot of people who disagree with these cities. I am in favor, because there are many immigrants that come to the United states in seek of a better life. To live the “American dream.” These immigrants are not here to harm America in any way.
Sanctuary cities are considered to be havens for undocumented immigrants who have entered the United States for economic opportunities, to escape violence, or other various reasons. One of the first sanctuary cities in the country was Los Angeles, which along with the rest of Los Angeles County is home to roughly 814,000 undocumented immigrants as of 2013 (PPIC). Many of these undocumented immigrants have never committed a criminal act outside of the civil offence of entering the country without the proper immigration documents. While there may be flaws to sanctuary cities, Los Angeles’ status as a sanctuary city is vital to the protection of not only the undocumented immigrants living there but the rest of the community as well.
A Sanctuary city is a city that does not permit municipal funds or resources to be applied in furtherance of enforcement of federal immigration. However, Sanctuary cities are not and should not be a practice within the United States. The problem is that Sanctuary cities defy federal law, endangers the citizens of that city and propose taxes that do not benefit the people who pay them.
These cities are harmful to the workforce as well. Having undocumented immigrants roaming around and causing harm or destroying property would affect our workforce majorly. For example, if an illegal immigrant were to vandalize a local business, the business would be forced to stop making profit and having to rebuild what was vandalized. This would cause our work force to decrease in size knowing that their property is at risk. Also, in a sanctuary city there would be less people working and more people unemployed. The reason why is because most of the undocumented immigrants wouldn’t
The Los Angeles freelance writer Richards discussed the changing ideology and opinions that have shaped California’s immigration policies. Even though Los Angeles is a sanctuary city that hosts several hundred thousand of immigrants, the city was once a tough place for immigrants to settle and enter. For example, in 1986, the city had instituted measures that could deport immigrants more so the ones who had a higher risk of recidivism (Richards). However, as the immigrants’ population surged and their political relevance increased, a federal court eventually awarded them the right to be accorded public services that other city members were entitled to, retracting the 1994 discriminatory policy that denied immigrants such privileges (Richards).
You might have heard of something called a sanctuary city. In 2017, this was a trending political topic. Sanctuary cities are “safe havens” for illegal immigrants that have come to America, have no where to live and cannot support themselves. Some well known cities such as New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco are home to sanctuaries. Many people are for and against illegal immigrants being safe from the law because many preform savage acts of crime, while many are trying to start over.
1793 was the first known start of what is now known today as Sanctuary Cities except back then it was called “The Fugitive Slave Act.” The sanctuary city was home to America’s first significant class of refugees or fugitive slaves as they were called back then (Baker, 2017). The name “sanctuary cities” comes from the 1980s protests of federal immigration policies that refused shelter to refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala. San Francisco led the way by passing a city ordinance in 1985 that specifically prohibited city police or civil magistrates from helping federal immigration officers, more cities followed suit. So did organizations not license by the state, like churches. H. Robert Baker who is a Professor