Understanding Sanctuary Cities
Shortly before my mother passed away, she and I were talking about sanctuary cities. She had lived the last decade or so of her life on a steady diet of Fox News, and so when I asked her to tell me what the term actually meant, she regurgitated what she had been told, i.e., it’s a place where an illegal immigrant who has committed a crime can go and hide without fear that the police can follow and arrest them.
In fact, sanctuary cities are those that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Police typically do not ask about immigration status, refuse to honor federal detainer requests for non-serious offenses, and do not allow local resources to be used for immigration enforcement.
This is not about liberalism or compassion; it’s about common sense effective policing. The belief here, and it’s proven to be true, is that if undocumented immigrants trust law enforcement personnel, they can be instrumental in helping the police solve crimes, by providing vital information as witnesses.
Sure! Shouldn’t the U.S president, a convicted felon, be allowed to deport an innocent congressperson because she doesn’t support him? Isn’t this the American way?
Isn’t this the guy who tried to overthrow the U.S. federal government in 2021?
The guy who sent me this writes, “A Loss for the (Climate) Alarmists!”
The reader who sent me this writes:
Abraham Joshua Heschel was a Jewish theologian and philosopher with a social consciousness that led him to participate in the civil rights movement.
What Orwell said at left may be true, but if you’re Trump, this is exactly what you want from you press secretary — instant access to a few dozen lies that can be used at any time, according to the reporter in front of you.
I wonder if the jackass who sent me the meme here is “for real,” because I can’t imagine that anyone is so ignorant that he doesn’t know that:
As we frequently discuss here, Trump benefits from a population of profoundly ignorant Americans.
I’d no more “put that gun on my hip” and attack people, almost none of whom have criminal records, than I’d chop off my right arm, you son of a bitch.
