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(I think you mean "sanctuary." It's a totally different term, right?)

Why should local law enforcement be forced to be the enforcement arm of federal policy? Isn't that supposed to be the job of federal law enforcement?

What you are proposing is against state and local freedom. It's un-American. [/quote]

So all the rhetoric about migrants being welcome is just rhetoric?  The border states want actual border security. Politicians who opposed policies like stay in Mexico should have no problem housing the migrants they argued should be allowed in [/quote]

Dp- rhetoric? All it means is that local law enforcement isn’t doing the fed’s job for them. It also allows illegal immigrants to report crimes without fear. [/quote]

NP....  and you are exactly right.  Nobody in "sanctuary cities" is saying those cities will pay for room and board and everything else.  Not even the mayor of San Francisco says that.  That narrative is a fiction, a gross embellishment that's purely made-up by the right wing.  it's their rhetoric, not ours.

Sanctuary city means the city will not enforce immigration law.  And they shouldn't, either - because it's not the city's job to do it.  Immigration enforcement is strictly a matter of federal jurisdiction.

Hope that sets you straight, OP - because that is the fact, and anyone who's suggested otherwise to you is wrong.[/quote]

Op here and thanks for the details and that makes sense. But then, wouldn't illegal immigrants prefer to be in these cities so they aren't living in constant fear (like they are in TX and FL)?

I agree that the false pretenses is awful and should be banned. But for the sake of discussion, what if there weren't false pretenses? What if I am governor of a state and offer illegal immigrants an opportunity to go to another city (for free transportation) to a sanctuary city. Would there be anything wrong with that?

From my (very limited) understanding of all this, it seems like these cities don't want and can't take in all these illegal immigrants. I'm trying to figure out why immigrants would want to stay in the states that don't offer protections and why it's so much better to stay in TX/FL than it would be to go to more immigrant friendly states?[/quote]

Most immigrants do end up in cities like this. I live in Portland Maine and there has been a growing population of Africans here due, explicitly, due to refugee resettlement programs. Texas and Florida are lying to you if they say that all the immigrants stay there. They do not. They get into the system and relocated. But picking up a group of immigrants and dumping them on a street corner somewhere to make a political stunt is wrong. I can guarantee you that if DeSantis and Abbot tried to reach out and talk to other states and the federal government about interim housing solutions for immigrants they would agree, there are likely already programs in place. But they have convinced you of something that is implied in this action that is false, which is the idea that these states are dealing with this alone. They are not. [/quote]

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