A handful of localities have backed off their status as sanctuary cities following community outrage and warnings by federal officials that they could lose funding for impeding the enforcement of federal law. The Trump administration put sanctuary cities on notice Friday that their unlawful policies could be putting their federal funding in jeopardy.
Sanctuary policies prohibit or restrict law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration officials, allowing criminal aliens to live and work freely in communities and are often unlawful. Federal law expressly prohibits state or local governments from putting in place any law, rule, or policy that limits its employees’ ability to communicate immigration status information with federal immigration officials. Federal law also protects public employee’s ability to maintain immigration status information or exchange it with any other state or local government entity.
Most recently, the City Council of Lansing, Michigan, rescinded its sanctuary resolution just days after passing it, following strong opposition by the residents and local businesses. The Council initially bowed to the illegal alien lobby and voted unanimously to declare itself a “sanctuary city.” The declaration was deleted by the Council just says later with a 5-2 vote.
Additionally, the Phoenix, Arizona, City Council rejected a petition last Wednesday, 7-2, to make Phoenix a sanctuary city. Councilmembers opposed the petition to avoid violating both federal and Arizona state law and expressed concerns regarding public safety and crime increase. Mayor Greg Stanton was also among enforcement supporters that spoke against the petition, despite protests from illegal alien residents. “We must respect the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision and the rule of law — and I will not ask Phoenix police officers to knowingly violate the law,” Stanton said.
Miami-Dade County was one of the first jurisdictions to drop its sanctuary policy following warnings of enforcement by the federal government. The Miami-Dade County Commission also voted 9-3 to reject its sanctuary policy shortly after the Trump Administration warned it would cut funding from sanctuary cities that unlawfully impede federal law enforcement’s efforts. Miami-Dade County currently receives $355 million a year in federal funding.
In February, Dayton, Ohio’s police department followed suit and rescinded its sanctuary policy shortly after President Trump signed an executive order which gave the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security authority to cut funding from sanctuary cities. Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl commented that the change was made to ensure that the department was acting in accordance to federal law.
A handful of bills in state legislatures that would have created sanctuary states around the country have also failed in recent weeks. Most recently, legislation in both Colorado and Rhode Island have been deferred indefinitely by the committees assigned to consider them.
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” Federal law expressly prohibits state or local governments from putting in place any law, rule, or policy that limits its employees’ ability to communicate immigration status information with federal immigration officials. Federal law also protects public employee’s ability to maintain immigration status information or exchange it with any other state or local government entity.”
To support this statement you cite https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1373 which prohibits any “government entity or official” from restricting any “government entity or official” communicating with INS regarding the immigration status of an individual. It is not clear to me that “official” applies to any rank-and-file employee. I’m not a lawyer and haven’t examined the definition of “official” in that particular act or searched for subsequent judicial rulings to be confident that your interpretation covers any employee. Please resolve my concern.
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Paul Ryan is trying to keep all funding for a wall out of the budget. He doesn’t want a wall, he supports amnesty and he’s a globalist in all senses of the word. He’s Chuck Schumer with an R behind his name. The media continually fails to point out the Schumer, Hillary, and Obama all voted for the Secure Fence Act of 2006. Now they proclaim fences and walls don’t work.
A Washington Post poll found that 96% of Trump voters would vote for him again, but only 85% of Hillary voters would do the same. Ryan and all the other Republicans need to remember that the reason they have Trump is that the mainstream GOP lied repeatedly when they said they would vote to control illegal immigration. It was one of their big talking points in 2014 when they captured control of Congress and proceeded to do nothing. Trump may be reminding primary voters in 2018 who was with him.
Sanctuary Cities= Federal Tax Evasion
Think about it, you pay cheap illegal replacements for legal citizen jobs that had a fair market wage rate with replacement illegal slave wages….that’s encourages identity theft and terrorism….but with the government shutdown looming, its more importantly slam-dunk TAX EVASION.
With Sanctuary Cities dwindling, the illegals will do what: move to another sanctuary city! Not only will their newly found city inherit them, they get to pay for them! The citizens of that city wouldn’t mind a bit! Yeah, right!