Two Americas: Liberal enclaves planning to keep 'sanctuary' status

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Two Americas: Liberal enclaves planning to keep 'sanctuary' status even as Trump vows crackdown on 3 million 'criminal' illegal immigrants


The nation's three largest cities are vowing to maintain their 'sanctuary' status in defiance of President-elect Donald Trump's call to deport up to 3 million undocumented 'criminal' immigrants who came here illegally.

The chief of the Los Angeles Police Department said Monday the department had no plans of departing from its policy of not stopping people based on suspicion of their immigration status.

The mayors of LA and New York have said they maintain to keep their cities' 'sanctuary' status, and Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel declared that the Windy City will 'always be a sanctuary city.'

All three cities are heavily Democratic and have large immigrant populations.

'To be clear about what Chicago is, it always will be a sanctuary city,' Emanuel said on Monday.

President-elect Donald Trump says a crackdown might deport two to three million immigrants who came here illegally and who have criminal records – but three top cities aren't planning to change the way they handle enforcement

After campaigning on a crackdown on illegal immigration, Trump told CBS' '60 Minutes' in an episode airing Sunday that he would focus on 'criminal' aliens first.

'What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate,' Trump said. 'But we're getting them out of our country, they're here illegally.'

Trump has listed immigration as one of his immediate priorities, although House Speaker Paul Ryan told CNN on Sunday: 'We are not planning on erecting a deportation force. Donald Trump is not planning on that.'

In 2014, the U.S. deported fewer than 200,000 criminal aliens.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3936166/Two-Americas-Liberal-enclaves-planning-sanctuary-status-Trump-vows-crackdown-3-million-criminal-illegal-immigrants.html

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Interesting that SWCs Hillary/DGP's hometown is one of the two cities. Too bad they won't be in office to see this through.

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Trump promises to block funding to sanctuary cities

As part of his 100-day action plan, President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to block all federal funding to sanctuary cities.

What is a sanctuary city? Here's what it means to 22-year-old Thais Marques, an undocumented immigrant who lives in the sanctuary city of Newark, N.J.: "It means that I can be safe in my own city," she said. "If I get pulled over or if something happens, I know that my family won't be detained and I won't be detained."

More than 350 counties, cities and states are so-called sanctuaries. There isn't a legal definition for a "sanctuary city." But, generally, these places have policies, police department orders or nonbinding resolutions that limit government officials from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement.

"It isn't the duty or the obligation of a local police officer or social worker to inquire about a person's immigration status or to enforce those immigration laws," said Dan Kesselbrenner, executive director of the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild.

Illinois Comptroller-elect Susana Mendoza said Trump's plan to block federal funding to sanctuary cities "is morally corrupt, but more importantly, it's fiscally unsound."

Without much detail from Trump, it's not clear how much money Chicago could lose, Mendoza said. But, she added, it'd likely be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Chicago, along with cities like New York, Los Angeles, Seattle and San Francisco, have pledged to remain sanctuary cities despite Trump's promise.

"It doesn't do Chicago any good to have an immigrant who's hiding and living in the shadows," Mendoza explained. "We want people to be productive members of the city and proud to live here."

For the 2016-17 fiscal year, San Francisco's operating budget is $9.6 billion, said Severin Campbell, director of the city's budget and legislative analyst's office.

About $478 million comes from the federal government.

"Five percent of the budget is fairly significant," Campbell said.

At the very least, the city could lose grants for housings and community programs, she explained.

"There are also a lot of criminal justice grants that show up in the police and adult probation budgets," she added.

Earlier this year, the Senate blocked a bill to cut federal funding for sanctuary cities — it would have stripped away community development grants that, for example, provide housing to low-income families.

"The resolutions and the amendments of these bills have been written up," said Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute. "The idea has been out there for a long time."

With a Republican Congress and a Republican in the White House, a law to cut off sanctuary cities is certainly possible, he said.
https://www.marketplace.org/2016/11/14/elections/trump-promises-block-funding-sanctuary-cities

[Anti Federalist]

How about cutting off ALL federal funding of cities?

[Anti Federalist]

I think they should secede.

[CPUd]

but who will build the airports?

[misterx]

How about cutting off ALL federal funding of cities?

That was my first thought as well.