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"THIRD, cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities." Is this explained anywhere?

loeber 10y ago
From Google: "A sanctuary city is a city in the United States or Canada that adopts local policies designed to not prosecute people solely for being an undocumented individual in the country in which they are currently living. These practices can be by law (de jure) or they can be in fact (de facto)."
savanaly 10y ago
Had to google that one myself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_city https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_city
- s_kilk 10y ago
  Wait, so he'll be cutting all federal funding to cities like New York, LA and San Francisco?
  - icelancer 10y ago
    As long as they remain sanctuary cities, yes.
  - giarc 10y ago
    I'm just guessing, but I imagine it means all federal funding related to immigration enforcement... not all federal funding.
owyn 10y ago
A sanctuary city is one that obstructs (directly or indirectly) the enforcement of federal immigration laws. http://www.apsanlaw.com/law-246.List-of-Sanctuary-cities.html http://www.apsanlaw.com/law-246.List-of-Sanctuary-cities.htm... Since this list is most of your bigger more liberal cities (LA, SF, NYC), I do wonder what it means to cut off all federal funding to those cities.
- ocschwar 10y ago
  I live by one of those cities, and there are indeed a lot of visa overstayers living there. The prospect of those people being too scared to call 911 if they witness a crime is something I am decidedly NOT looking forward to.
  - jquery 10y ago
    Hopefully we can crack down on employers so that these visa over-stayers don't stay long enough for that to happen.
    - ocschwar 10y ago
      Crack down on employers? Yeah, like that's going to happen.
- ch4s3 10y ago
  Basically the federal government says "Round these people up, an oh by the way do it on your own dime." These cities basically say no, we're not going to pay for that.
arprocter 10y ago
It's quite a long list of cities (sadly the only sources I can find seem to be anti-immigration - http://cis.org/Sanctuary-Cities-Map http://cis.org/Sanctuary-Cities-Map)

From Google: "A sanctuary city is a city in the United States or Canada that adopts local policies designed to not prosecute people solely for being an undocumented individual in the country in which they are currently living. These practices can be by law (de jure) or they can be in fact (de facto)."

savanaly 10y ago

Had to google that one myself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_city https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_city

s_kilk 10y ago
Wait, so he'll be cutting all federal funding to cities like New York, LA and San Francisco?
- icelancer 10y ago
  As long as they remain sanctuary cities, yes.
- giarc 10y ago
  I'm just guessing, but I imagine it means all federal funding related to immigration enforcement... not all federal funding.

owyn 10y ago

A sanctuary city is one that obstructs (directly or indirectly) the enforcement of federal immigration laws. http://www.apsanlaw.com/law-246.List-of-Sanctuary-cities.html http://www.apsanlaw.com/law-246.List-of-Sanctuary-cities.htm... Since this list is most of your bigger more liberal cities (LA, SF, NYC), I do wonder what it means to cut off all federal funding to those cities.

ocschwar 10y ago
I live by one of those cities, and there are indeed a lot of visa overstayers living there. The prospect of those people being too scared to call 911 if they witness a crime is something I am decidedly NOT looking forward to.
- jquery 10y ago
  Hopefully we can crack down on employers so that these visa over-stayers don't stay long enough for that to happen.
  - ocschwar 10y ago
    Crack down on employers? Yeah, like that's going to happen.
ch4s3 10y ago
Basically the federal government says "Round these people up, an oh by the way do it on your own dime." These cities basically say no, we're not going to pay for that.

arprocter 10y ago

It's quite a long list of cities (sadly the only sources I can find seem to be anti-immigration - http://cis.org/Sanctuary-Cities-Map http://cis.org/Sanctuary-Cities-Map)