San Francisco, for example, has a policy of prohibiting its law enforcement officials from holding someone who is otherwise eligible for release solely on the basis of an ICE request.
Policy of not cooperating with another law enforcement agency.
"Sanctuary cities are not breaking the law, but Trump is"
The stereotype and the reality.
By Dara Linddara@vox.com Mar 8, 2018, 12:00pm EST
Jeff Sessions is leading the Trump administration’s fight against “sanctuary cities” that limit immigration cooperation (left); a “Sanctuary Now: ICE Out of LA!” sign at a California immigration protest. Mark Wilson/Getty Images (left); Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images (right).
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The official position of the Trump administration is that any unauthorized immigrant in the US should be “looking over [her] shoulder” and worried that ICE will come after her at any time. The biggest change to policy under Trump hasn’t been the scope of deportations or even of arrests — it’s been the aggressive messaging that anyone could be next.
Local and state officials who see unauthorized immigrants as part of their own communities, and who are concerned about the effects that targeting unauthorized immigrants will have on their legal immigrant neighbors and US citizen children, are trying to combat that fear.
In case you missed the news there are no riots in California despite what the idiot says. Twitter Agog At Trump Whopper That Californians Are ‘Rioting’ Over Sanctuary Cities “The president is now inventing nonexistent domestic riots,” notes the Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star.. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=144358273