‘Sanctuary cities’ vow to protect immigrants from Trump plan

Sanctuary cities, like Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville, are cities that don’t generally cooperate with federal immigration authorities except in cases involving violent criminals.

“I’ve been in touch with mayors [from NY and L.A.] and I’ve told them we’re going to stand together on this”, Elorza told the Providence Journal Sunday.

“For the past week, you’ve had so many people in the city of Los Angeles having so many questions and concerns”, Wesson said Thursday. “I find this a very promising direction, having said that ‘we will find ways to cultivate the values that sustain our educational community and protect the people who have made it their home'”. His comments come in the face of the city’s massive crime and murder rates. These so-called sanctuary cities stand to lose a lot: In San Francisco alone, city leaders estimate they receive about one billion dollars a year in federal funding for everything from infrastructure to education. But as it stands, 300 jurisdictions now have “sanctuary”-like policies and might continue refusing co-operation with the federal government”.

Students at Florida International University and dozens of other college campuses around the country staged similar actions Wednesday as part of an effort spearheaded by the immigrants rights group Cosecha to push schools to develop policies that would protect students from deportations and hardline immigration enforcement under a Trump presidency. The fear is that people will stop reporting crimes or cooperating with investigators. Many of these have had encounters with local law enforcement and subsequently been released back into the communities. The prime and most well-known example of this is Kathryn Steinle.

The midwest giant will continue to be a sanctuary city, according to reports. In 2015, the percentage jumped to 59 percent. Despite that, the City doubled down on its sanctuary city policies.

More than 100 colleges around the country staged walkouts on Wednesday, the New York Post reports, with students urging officials to limit their cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

It is unclear where Trump found those statistics, or how he will go about rounding up undocumented immigrants who have committed a crime, or even to what qualifies as a crime worthy of deportation. Police Chief Charlie Beck said this week that officers will cooperate with federal deportation efforts.

Not everyone agrees with the stance taken by leading urban City Mayors. He said the term is “ill defined”.

There’s no legal definition of a sanctuary city, county or state, and what it means varies from place to place.

Trump has spoken favorably of Obama’s policy on deportation in the past. The Department of Justice (DOJ) looked at some jurisdictions and determined their sanctuary policies “appear to violate federal law”, the AP reported. But the reason so many have pushed for campuses across the country to become sanctuaries is that Trump has already expressed intentions to punish cities for not abiding by immigration laws by withdrawing federal funding. Sanctuaries often have policies that restrict local law enforcement’s mandate to assist with federal immigration procedures. “We are not going to engage in law enforcement activities exclusively based on somebody’s immigration status”.

“Chicago has been a city of immigrants since it was founded”. The list was provided to Culberson by Jessica Vaughn from the CIS. According to Breitbart News, “Some 925,000 deportable aliens including 200,000 criminal aliens now roam our streets- after being ordered deported by a federal immigration court”.