Safety for Illegal Aliens From January to August 2014 over 200 sanctuary cities released some 8,145 illegal aliens despite the fact that they were being held on criminal charges. Of those over 8,000 released, 1,800 of them were charged with crimes such as rape and child sex abuse (‘Sanctuary City’ Crime Wave in 43 States). Although there is no clear definition of “sanctuary city” each of these cities generally have laws that limit how far government employees and law enforcement officials are allowed to go to aid the federal government on immigration matters. Sanctuary cities should be outlawed because they go against federal law, the release of criminals are endangering the public, and negative effects it has on the economy. Sanctuary …show more content…
So apparently in reality, funding cuts won’t do much to stop these cities from resisting ICE. Something needs to be done in order to prevent these cities and their politicians from resisting the federal law and ICE. Not only are these cities resisting federal law, they are also endangering their own citizens who live there as well. On July 1, 2015 in San Francisco, CA, a well known sanctuary city, Kathryn Steinle (32), was shot and killed while walking with her father by an undocumented illegal alien Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez. Before his arrest after killing Steinle, “Lopez-Sanchez had been convicted of seven felonies and been deported five times” (‘Sanctuary Cities: How Kathryn Steinle’s death’). Lopez-Sanchez had been in prison following his fifth deportation for re-entering the country, but was transferred from Victorville, CA to San Francisco because of an outstanding drug related charge despite the fact that he had an immigration detainer. However, San Francisco’s DA refused to prosecute him over a “decade-old marijuana possession case” (‘Sanctuary Cities: How Kathryn Steinle’s death’), and Lopez-Sanchez was released in April 2015. ICE had made a request to know when Lopez-Sanchez would be released from prison, so that he could be
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
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”
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
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
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 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
He talks about how “Trumps executive order does far more than removing illegal immigrants with criminal records, it threatens to cut federal funding’s from nearly 300 Sanctuary Jurisdictions” he says that the sanctuary cities shouldn’t deny what he offers because they will lose millions of dollars from funding’s. “Trumps threats must be taken seriously” Austin says. I think that this is a good point but I disagree because, even though this may cause a great impact in these cities there are many cities that are receiving other help from other funds. Other places like Santa Fe as I talked earlier the mayor said that the funds are not a big portion of what they have. This means that they could just work with what they have left. There are also the tax payers. Many people think that immigrants don’t pay their taxes, but they do. This immigrant work all year and pay all of their taxes. Except they don’t get anything back because since they are undocumented they are not eligible to file for their taxes. This money stays with the government, and helps pay all of the expenses, like school, and police departments. I think that the Sanctuary cities will be fine without this
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.
I think these cities are hazardous to protect legal citizens. For example, in San Francisco (a sanctuary city), a
California is a liberal state and San Francisco is a sanctuary city. This may have partially influenced the results. The data is based on a survey with 62 responses from both 11th and 12th graders at American High School. Results showed that while about 65% of respondents said that they do not support illegal immigration, 73% of respondents supported sanctuary cities. The idea of the liberals is that sanctuary cities help maintain trust between law enforcement and immigrants and weed out the more important, more harmful criminals. A city that instead is willing to deport illegal immigrants is likely to not have cooperation between civilians and law enforcement making it harder for law enforcement to do their job. California follows this liberal
Still having in mind the existence of illegal immigrants within the United States, certain factors that inevitably undermine and inhibit the United States’ immigration policies begin to emerge. Firstly, considered the third largest country in the world, the United States possesses many borders and areas of entry into the country. Considering its size and vast expansion of borders, the United States has an immense amount of areas that it needs to protect form illegal entry. Truthfully, with such large borders, there is simply no way to fully protect and prevent illegal immigration entirely. Despite major improvements in border control, including armed patrolmen and high-reaching metal fences, the border is just too large, and many immigrants
A current issue being debated about American national security applies to border security. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s top priority is “to keep terrorists and their weapons from entering the U.S. while welcoming all legitimate travelers and commerce.” (U.S. Border Patrol, 2016) So why has this issue become such a huge deal? According to a CSMonitor article,
Many of those prosecuted have minor or no criminal history and have substantial ties to the US such as US citizen family members they were seeking to rejoin when arrested. “Secure Communities” and other federal programs involving local law enforcement agencies continued to play an important role in deportations. The federal government has portrayed these programs as focused on dangerous criminals, but most immigrants deported through Secure Communities are non-criminal or lower level offenders. These programs also exacerbate distrust of police in immigrant communities. Not only that the noncitizens are not receiving their proper rights and judgments, they also on many levels face discrimination by society in many places around the country.