As President Trump traveled to inspect border wall prototypes March 13, the White House released a statement entitled “What You Need to Know About Sanctuary Cities.” The statement explained what a “sanctuary city” is and what it sees as the impact it can have on the community.
Overall a sanctuary city is one that does not cooperate with federal immigration authorities, typically when it comes to a “detainer” request from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“When local law enforcement arrests an illegal alien on criminal charges, ICE issues a detainer, which is a request that the local authority notify ICE before releasing the alien and maintain custody for a short time, so that ICE may take custody for removal purposes,” the statement read. “Sanctuary jurisdictions, including many big cities, refuse to comply with ICE’s detainer requests.”
In preventing the arrest of criminal aliens, the statement continued, it’s leaving some often charged with serious crimes free in communities.
The statement included several examples, such as an alleged gang member arrested more than 10 times “for charges including rape, domestic battery, and assault” in San Francisco. It also noted an individual arrested for “lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14” who spend just 180 days in jail. The statement also mentioned an instance where ICE was alerted just 24 minutes before Sonoma County, Calif., authorities released another illegal alien after being arrested for “inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant.” Weeks later he was arrested under suspicion of murder of his girlfriend.
“If ICE cannot arrest illegal or criminal aliens in the controlled environments of police stations or jails, it must perform its lawful immigration enforcement duties in workplaces, in residences, or in the streets,” putting the public at risk, the statement read. “Even worse, when sanctuary city officials warn illegal aliens about possible upcoming immigration enforcement activities, they allow criminals to prepare themselves, endangering innocent bystanders and putting law enforcement at greater risk.”
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