Sanctuary Cities Mayors Speak Against Trump Deportation Threats

“To all those who are, after Tuesday’s election, very nervous”, Emanuel said. In hundreds of cities and counties, local governments have opted – either informally or formally – to limit local law enforcement officers’ involvement in enforcing federal immigration laws, particularly when they come into contact with undocumented immigrants.

The Elm City is one of dozens of cities across America that say they will continue to be a so-called “Sanctuary City”, a city that has policies in place to protect immigrants from prosecution for being undocumented.

“The people have spoken, Donald Trump will be the next president, the 45th president of the United States”.

In that speech, Mr. Trump reiterated his promise to build a wall along the Mexican border, but said that decisions on deportation and/or legalization of noncriminal illegals would only be made “in several years, when we have accomplished all of our enforcement goals”. “And panic debilitates people”.

Donald Trump pledged during his campaign to abolish so-called “sanctuary cities” in the United States under a programme to deport up to three million illegal immigrants from the country.

Mainstream media – less understandably, since they’re supposed to report the facts – ignored those statements too, even though they were set forth with careful precision in the speech Mr. Trump delivered August 31 in Phoenix immediately after his respectful meeting with President Enrique Pena in Mexico City.

The Los Angeles Board of Education voted to approve a resolution reaffirming L.A. Unified’s current policy, which directs school staff members not to allow federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents onto school campuses unless their visit has been approved by the superintendent and the district’s lawyers.

The nation’s second-largest school system on Tuesday sent a message to President-elect Donald Trump: Los Angeles’ public schools will continue to be “safe zones” for students in the USA illegally. “Chicago will always be a sanctuary city”.

There is no legal definition of the term, which is opposed by some immigration advocates who say it does not reflect that people can still be deported.

Councilman Eric Guerra said he supports Steinberg’s position and sees it as critical to public safety that immigrants know they will not face deportation when dealing with police now or in the future.

More than 1 million of the estimated 11 million immigrants in the country without legal status live in Los Angeles County, according to the Migration Policy Institute. If your happy with the work your representative has already taken on immigration, communicate that.

With deportations at an all-time high, state and local officials fought a now-defunct program, known as Secure Communities, in which local law enforcement collaborated with federal immigration officials.

The “system by which we run folks nationally for warrants notifies ICE automatically”, so the department could potentially still release people to immigration enforcement officials as long as they are in their custody, Beck said. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that for Congress to impose conditions on the receipt of federal money by the states, the conditions must be reasonably related to the objective of the money. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who is now on Trump’s transition team, was the architect of the Arizona law.

It isn’t clear where Trump came up with those numbers.

“For instance there may be grounds for the federal government to take legal action against them” she said, noting that the Obama administration at one point threatened Cook County in IL with such action, but didn’t follow through.

A persistent state of fear, leading to self-deportation, has been a goal of GOP immigration restrictionists for some time. The article quotes the students as saying that they were disappointed that while anti-Trump demonstrations were occurring on campuses across the country, Harvard had yet to have one.

“Unauthorized immigrant workers make up about 5 percent of the labor force, and most have been here for at least 10 years”, he told ATTN.

Also on Monday, the Yale Daily News reported that since the election more than 2,300 students and faculty members had signed a letter asking the Yale administration to declare the campus a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants. “Splitting her family, what is she going to do here by herself supporting herself with her children?”

In Chicago, for example, the “Welcoming City Ordinance” prohibits city police from enforcing immigration law.

“It doesn’t do Chicago any good to have an immigrant who’s hiding and living in the shadows”, Mendoza explained.

“It is important to also note that there is a lot he can’t do without congressional action”, Saenz said of Trump. We are not going to work in conjunction with Homeland Security on deportation efforts.