Persuasive Essay On Sanctuary Cities

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, immigration control and national homeland security have been issues of concern for both the national government and private citizens. In the wake of the attacks, a lot of articles were written about what the appropriate response should be to prevent another attack. In 2004, Mark Krikorian wrote an article for the Providence Journal entitled “Safety through Immigration Control” in which he contends that the only means to keep America safe from a follow-up attack is to strengthen and enforce immigration law to prevent terrorists from being able to enter the country. Edwidge Danticat, writing for The Nation in 2005, provides a juxtaposition to Krikorian’s stance in her essay “Not Your Homeland”, in which she describes her witnessing of the inhumane conditions many immigrants are forced to endure in the name of increased security to protect the country. She questions whether the added protections are worth the human cost we are paying by treating immigrants and refugees as guilty until proven innocent. At the crossroads of these two perspectives lies the question: what is the proper balance between national security and the humane treatment of immigrants?

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

Illegal immigrants have been a hot topic lately due to the popularity of this topic amongst the Republican Presidential Nominees, especially Donald Trump. These illegal immigrants bring various things to this country when they come. Some things are positive, such as a family simply seeking to find a better life, while some things are harmful to the United States, such as the amount of crime among illegal immigrants. In July 2015, the most recent estimate of illegal immigrants was 11.2 million. This same data shoes that 56 percent of all deportations last year were convicted criminals, which accounted for 177,960 individuals (Shoichet, 2015). Crime among illegal immigrants is a problem, and sanctuary cities, which are supposed to be a solution, may be making this problem worse.

As Donald Trump’s presidency unfolds his promise to crack down on immigration and cut funding to sanctuary cities is becoming a reality, however, each city is handling it differently. Throughout his campaign, Donald Trump promised to crack down on illegal immigrants and “sanctuary cities”. Sanctuary city is a vague term that is being thrown around right now. It loosely refers to a towns or cities that don’t immediately turn over illegals who commit small crimes, and don’t cooperate fully with immigration services (“Sanctuary Cities: Top 3 Pros and Cons”). Most Texas cities have vowed to remain loyal to their citizens, and not rip families apart due to politics and money. Cutting federal funding to a city is not an

A congress current event is the measures that the government wants to imply to sanctuary cities.’’ Legislation directed at sanctuary cities will likely contain defunding provisions, and attempt to establish more prescriptive immigration laws. Now the 115th Congress, both the Senate and House have each introduced anti-sanctuary city bills. On Jan. 3, 2017, Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Pa., introduced H.R.83’’ “Mobilizing Against Sanctuary Cities Act,” and on Jan. 10, 2017, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., introduced S.87 “A bill to ensure that state and local law enforcement may cooperate with federal officials to protect our communities from violent criminals and suspected terrorists who are illegally present in the United States.”

Constitution. New federal laws have buckled down on immigration, however this does not affect sanctuary cities. Sanctuary cities do not have to follow the exaggerated immigration laws, due to the tenth amendment. The tenth amendment separates federal and state powers, meaning that the states have jurisdiction in sanctuary cities. Referencing the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, the Amendment prevents the “federal government from coercing state or local governments to use their resources to enforce a federal regulatory program …” Similarly to how the tenth amendment protects sanctuary cities from federal law, it also protects them from the federal government attempting to force sanctuary cities to provide information. For this reason, sanctuary cities keep a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. In addition to the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, sanctuary cities are protected another way. The Immigrant Legal Resource Center assures that, “Congress cannot compel state or local governments to collect immigration status information in order to share it with the federal government.” The “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy refers to the sanctuary cities version of not collecting data. Without collecting data, these cities are never in violation of federal law. There is very limited record keeping done in these cities, which works in tandem with the don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Therefore, the tenth amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects sanctuary cities from the federal government in enforcing federal law, forcing private information from the cities, and protecting the citizens of these cities with a “don’t ask, don’t tell”

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.

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

Any place of refuge or asylum can be a sanctuary, though there is no specific legal definition to what constitutes a sanctuary jurisdiction. These communities can be states, cities or counties with established policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation. The state of Maryland is pushing for a bill that will limit available state and local resources during the enforcement of immigration laws. Whilst some people are of an opinion that the state government should not be writing laws shielding illegal immigrants from US federal government immigration laws, others maintain that Maryland officials should move forward with their ideas of a sanctuary. There is debate over the safety of immigrants and of

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.

I think these cities are hazardous to protect legal citizens. For example, in San Francisco (a sanctuary city), a

Illegal immigration has been a continuing problem in which many people have offered solutions; some have worked better than others. Secure Communities is a program that was implemented in 2008 and has caused serious controversy because of the mandatory nature of the new program policy. This paper will review an article called Federal immigration enforcement is mandatory, memo says. In addition, the pros, cons, and various implications will be reviewed.

By surveying police chiefs in communities with populations of over 65,000 a few things were found. City policies and police practices have significantly influenced each other. However, a little under half (46%) of the police departments were said to have no policy (Enforcement of Immigration Law,Pg.17). Because they have no policy, it is up to the departments to decide themselves how to deal with unauthorized immigrants. Decisions the departments make would later influence many of the cities policies that would later be implemented. The studies also found that if there were an actual written policy regarding racial profiling, there would be significantly less levels of immigration enforcement. Another interesting discovery was that many of the researched influences for policy making such as, the demographic change within the community and the political context in the community, don’t really influence policy making. The act of labeling a condition as a public problem is more influential in shaping policy agendas. The flow of undocumented immigrants to the U.S. has even been labeled as an “invasion” to the West, from not only Mexico but all immigrant communities. Many media sources and politicians began using this type of vocabulary and descriptions in order to target these “invaders”and make them out as a threat. This act of labeling immigrants as “members of

How long has illegal immigration been a problem in the united States of America. According to the Pew Research Center, the number of illegal immigrants in the United States now exceeds 11 million Without an effective route to citizenship, American breeds a culture of national security problems because there is no option for these individuals other than those provided by people who skirt the law and often take advantage. Migrant workers and their families work to the benefit of business owners without proper protections and do themselves and all of America a disservice in the long run without a clear path forward. The 1836 ads targeting immigrants claimed that Houston was located on a “river” and boasted that there was “no place more healthy.”

A major point of contention in today’s political sphere regards the place that undocumented immigrants hold in American society. Whereas the typical liberal viewpoint revolves around improving the means of allowing these immigrants to gain legal citizenship in the country, the conservative viewpoint revolves around deporting them to their country of origin, and in President Trump and his following’s case, going so far as to build a wall as a means of prevent these “illegals” from entering. Even taking the point of their illegal residency in the United States into account, determining how to handle situating undocumented immigrants is an incredibly difficult and complex task, especially when they have been stationed in the country for many years or were brought here at a very young age. In the case that an undocumented immigrant has been living in the United States for an extended period, it is best to allow them to have a chance to gain legal citizenship via the naturalization process.