‘Sanctuary cities’ vow to protect immigrants from Trump plan

This week the Los Angeles and Denver police chiefs said they would not participate in President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration plans.

Donald Trump’s advisers are looking to tighten screenings for immigrants coming to the US from “high risk” locations – but the campaign is denying a report that it wants to create a registry for people from Muslim countries. Since last week’s victory, however, he’s remixed the track. “The organization pointed to statements Republican Party spokeswoman Helen Aguirre Ferré made to Telemundo that people who are undocumented and have not committed a crime have nothing to worry about”.

He told the Irish Independent that Donald Trump’s rhetoric has been “terrible towards immigrants” and immigration reform campaigners faced a “tough battle”. Trump said in an interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes” that aired on Sunday that once he took office, he would remove immigrants with criminal records who are in the country illegally.

According to the L.A. Times, the LAPD has a longstanding policy of distancing itself from federal immigration mandates.

The Los Angeles version of the policy, “Special Order 40”, states, “Officers shall not initiate police action with the objective of discovering the alien status of a person”. “When we asked immigrants to come out of the shadows, we never imagined the election of a candidate who ran on a policy of mass deportation”.

This is outright defiance of established law, and jurisdiction for its enforcement.

The Department of Homeland Security disabled the program in 2011 under President Obama. “That is not our job, nor will I make it our job”.

FiveThirtyEight’s Ben Casselman writes, “It isn’t clear where Trump came up with those numbers”. And other people have looked at that and they have said, you know what, you’re really talking about a few hundred thousand people who would be deported. It also appears to be a thinly-veiled pretence for a catastrophic policy of mass deportation that will tear apart families and weaken our economy.

Trump’s plan to deport 2 million to 3 million parallels the number of total immigrants deported under President Barack Obama.

Mayor Ed Murray also indicated his city would resist.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said, “Chicago always will be a sanctuary city”, NPR reported.

We’ve never quite understood how the notion of a “sanctuary city” works – or, rather, is allowed to work.

New York City’s Bill de Blasio, Chicago’s Rahm Emanuel and Seattle’s Ed Murray are among those in “sanctuary cities” that have tried to soothe anxious immigrant populations. Elorza is himself the son of Guatemalan immigrants.

“We need to take care of our citizens first”.

He said, unless you sign a voluntary departure, you can fight your case in court. “So yeah, we will continue to be a Fourth Amendment city abiding by the Constitution”.

“Look at terrorism, look at the warnings that we have had from John Brennan, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, from James Comey, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, saying that ISIS was embedding terrorists, and the refugee flow in finding other means to come here and kill us”, he said.