The Safety For Illegal Aliens

In their newspaper articles “ Sanctuary Cities Have a Legal Right to Defy the Federal Government” and “ Sanctuary Cities Must Cooperate With Federal Enforcement” both Cesar Vargas and Jan C. Ting assert how they individually feel about if whether a city has the legal right to defy the government on the immigration policy. Man y cities have claimed that they will remain as sanctuary cities which are cites in which the local law enforcement limit their cooperation with the federal government to try and detain illegal immigrants even though their federal funding is on the line. Cities do not and have a legal right to defy the government on the immigration policy.

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

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

Are undocumented immigrants the ones that’re making our crime rates sky rocket? Are sanctuary cities helping out the needy undocumented immigrants or are they just letting anybody from anywhere come and do as they please? This could either become an enormous issue with the people, government, and the ones wanting to come here for freedom and safety or this could be a new beginning where people will start to notice how essential sanctuary cities could be. What are sanctuary cities and what do they do? A sanctuary city is a city where the local law enforcement will not be working with the federal authorities to deport undocumented immigrants.

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

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

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.

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

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Perhaps these words written on Lady Liberty first inspired the creation of so called “sanctuary cities” in the United States. Sanctuary cities began in the 80’s as a network of churches and religious congregations that provided safe housing for refugees. Today, sanctuary cities have transformed from a small scale network to a larger social movement to fight xenophobia and bring the possibility of a normal life for undocumented people. Lately, the buzzword of “sanctuary cities” is on every politician's lips as Trump makes dramatic threats to cut federal funding from counties that continue this “sanctuary city” practice.

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

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.