Los Angeles Unified Says Schools Will Be ‘Safe Zones’ for Undocumented Students

Angelenos have marched down city streets and gathered by the hundreds outside City Hall on a near daily basis since Trump won the election, to protest and raise concerns the president-elect’s promise to deport millions of undocumented immigrants or immigrants with criminal records.

“That’s where the federal government can come in and say, look this is a guy who’s a known gang member, he’s been arrested multiple times, sure they haven’t convicted him yet, but we ought to get him out of the country”, Kobach said.

But pro-immigration advocates say they’re anxious that Trump’s plans will wind up deporting much more than violent criminals and they’re gearing up for a fight, in the sanctuary cities and beyond.

While protecting federal funding is a priority, a city “immigrant advocate” would also work closely with Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, Wesson said. “It was a candid dialogue and a substantive dialogue”.

De Blasio also said that he would safeguard and maybe even destroy New York City identification card records, which contain information on undocumented immigrants, if necessary.

Cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City had been viewed historically as a safe havens for immigrates.

An estimate of only the number of undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes comes from the Migration Policy Institute, and puts the number around 820,000 – not 1.9 million.

Mayor Jorge Elosa of Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Guatemalan immigrants, also said he wouldn’t halt the city’s policy of refusing to hold people charged with civil infractions for federal immigration officials. Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state, has been behind countless crusades over the past decade, many of them thwarted in federal courts, to harass and intimidate immigrants.

On Monday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s former White House chief of staff, said that Chicago “always will be a sanctuary city”. “We have always welcomed people of all faiths and backgrounds, and while the administration will change, our values and our commitment to inclusion will not”.

But significant questions – and unease – remain concerning his approach to sanctuary cities. During the campaign, Trump said he would cut federal funding to “sanctuary cities” like Chicago and L.A, where police are not required to report people’s immigration status. Cities may adopt sanctuary policies due to their desire to help immigrants.

According to reports, Trump’s administration will assess its immigration policy to address the pressing issue on illegal immigrants. The orange President-elect won the rural vote, but cities did not succumb to the xenophobic insanity.

There’s no legal definition of a sanctuary city, county or state, and what it means varies from place to place. Officials in San Francisco, a city that has had “sanctuary”-like policies for years, were criticized because they had not disclosed Lopez-Sanchez’s release from prison to ICE just a few weeks before he killed Steinle”. Figures from ICE show that “state and local law enforcement agencies declined 16,495 immigration detainers, resulting in convicted criminals being released back into U.S. communities with the potential to reoffend, notwithstanding ICE’s request for those individuals”. He stresses out that these immigrants are in the country illegally.

The report predicted that Trump will “likely sign a flurry of executive orders on his first day in office overturning numerous immigration policies of the Obama administration”.

Not everyone agrees with the stance taken by leading urban City Mayors. “Now they have legal status by executive order”, Graham said. Despite that, the City doubled down on its sanctuary city policies. “That’s all we’re asking our immigration laws to do, keep out those people who threaten our lives”.

The federal government is now funded to deport about 400,000 people each year, as estimated by the Migration Policy Institute. The Supreme Court has ruled that, in order to restrict federal funding to states, “the conditions must be related to the funding’s objective”, NBC News reported.