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Trump’s Border Czar Has a Smart Surprise for Sanctuary Cities Trying to Hide Criminals

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Editor’s note: This is an excerpt of an interview with President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan by the Daily Signal’s Senior National Security and Legal Analyst Mehek Cooke.

Mehek Cooke: Well, let’s expand on that, because I look at sanctuary cities today, and the worst offenders—that’s who I really want to get down to.

I’m watching New York Democrats today, and they are moving to limit local cooperation with [Immigration and Customs Enforcement]. They’re moving to restrict you and ban you and ICE officers from even wearing masks, as I’ve seen a massive surge in the type of violence that’s coming out against ICE officers.

What can we do to ensure that ICE can do their jobs?

As we’re having Democrats in New York, even Boston … I mean, you talked about lawsuits. I’m seeing a lawsuit there where a judge is skeptical of authority. This clash between federal enforcement and local. How can we make sure that we can prevent a Minnesota?

Because that’s where we don’t need to be, but I’m telling you, we’re watching this. Democrats are trying to corner this administration to make another flashpoint and an issue in the next sanctuary city.

So, what can we do to reduce that?

Tom Homan: A couple things. First of all, you know, good luck with the law of banning masks. Federal law always trumps state and local law. And while threats are up over 8,000%, masks is a non-starter, so good luck enforcing that.

Second thing is, you talk about New York. You know, I met with Governor Hochul a couple months ago, and I told her about what happened in Minnesota, that, you know, we were able to draw some resources out of Minnesota because the local jails cooperated with us.

And I told her the same thing, because I knew this legislation was coming. I said, Look, you end cooperation in the jails, we’re going to have to send more agents to do the job, because now rather than one agent arresting one bad guy in the jail, which is safer for the agent, safer for the alien, safer for the community, of course, you’re going to release him. Now we got to send a whole team, six or seven agents, to go find him. So, it’s going to result more agents in the community.

Totally briefed on the whole thing, but she decided to go ahead and do it anyways. Well, I made a statement that we’re going to send more agents to New York. We have to as a response to this to go arrest those public safety threats.

I also told her there’s going to be two things you [she] may not like.

No. 1, in addition to more agents in your communities, that’s going to mean, one, that when we find the bad guy, and we usually do, they may be with others, that weren’t a criminal target, but they’re in the country illegally. Well, guess what? We’re going to arrest them, too. We’re not going to turn a blind eye to illegal immigration, which means there’ll be more collateral arrests because of your decision to force us in the community.

And, second of all, part of her legislation prevents ICE from leasing beds, from sheriffs across the state, which we use a lot of those beds.

That means every illegal alien we arrest, we’re simply going to fly out of state to New York or Arizona or Florida, one of those states, because we’re going to detain them. We’re going to arrest them, we’re going to detain them. And so you wanna lock us out of New York jails for detention, then we’ll simply fly them out.

And I explained to her, how does that benefit the people you’re saying you’re trying to protect? How does that protect the immigrant community, moving them away from their family and their attorneys while they go through the immigration proceedings? It doesn’t.

So look, this is just a political spitball and you know, it’s… They’re not going to stop us from doing what we’re doing. We’re just going to have to do more of it now because of those, the legislation that was passed.

Cooke: But what’s the motivation here, Director? What is the true motivation here? Because you worked for the deporter-in-chief. You worked under President Obama.

Is it because we have a different president and his name is Donald J. Trump?

Like, what is the motivation where you’re going, to get so much pushback for common sense? If the truth is, whether it’s Governor Hochul or any other governor in America, their first duty is to protect citizens. Why are you getting so much pushback to remove illegal criminals off of our streets? What’s the real motivation for Democrats?

Homan: Well, you, just said it. They hate Trump more than they care about their communities. They don’t want President Trump to get a win.

Second reason is we’re spoiling their long-term plan. They got a long-term strategy here. Open the border up, release millions of people into the United States to go to sanctuary cities.

But remember, when Biden opened the border, he also overturned the Trump census rule, which illegal aliens would be counted in the next census. So they think, you know, send millions to sanctuary cities, the next census is done, it’s going to result in more seats in the House for the Democrats. They sold this country’s national security out for future political benefit.

Plus they think these millions will be, you know, future Democratic voters. That’s why they’re putting all the roadblocks up, because they’re hoping before we can move too many, another Democratic administration comes in, they award amnesty to millions of people they think are future Democratic voters.

They’re having a fit right now because we’re removing record numbers of people that they don’t want removed, because they, like I said, they’ve got a long-term plan.

So, well, I got a surprise for them. We’re going to keep removing people. We’re going to keep arresting record numbers, because that’s what President Trump was elected for.

And the reason there’s mass deportation operation, because there’s a mass illegal immigration crisis on the border, so the appropriate law enforcement response to that is a mass deportation program, and that’s why we’re doing it. They set the stage. We’re responding to their incompetence the last four years.

Cooke: So, you’re saying there’s a clear choice today for any sanctuary jurisdiction. You either cooperate with ICE or you’re going to put more boots on the ground. Is that accurate?

Homan: Absolutely. And let me say this, because they like to say, sanctuary cities, we’re a welcoming community because we want illegal aliens who are victims and witnesses of a crime to feel safe coming to law enforcement to report those crimes without fear of working with ICE.

That is such a false narrative because we’re not looking to talk to the victim witness of crime. We’re looking to talk to the person you locked in a jail cell. That’s who we want access to.

But at the same time, this, they’re the ones that are pushing the false, narrative about ICE officers separating families, arresting people in churches, arresting people in elementary schools, arresting people in hospitals.

They’re putting fear in immigrant communities.

Mm-hmm.

If they’re honest with them, that ICE has never arrested somebody in a church. We’ve never arrested somebody in an elementary school. We’ve never arrested someone in a hospital.

They won’t say that because there’ll be less fear in the immigrant community, so they’re playing both sides.

They want to say, well, they’re afraid to come report crimes, but the reason they’re afraid is because the false narrative you put up against ICE.

Let’s be clear. If they went to the immigrant community and asked them a simple question, would you rather have ICE operating in the jail? Or would you want ICE in the community?

The community’s going to say the jail every time.

Cooke: Right.

Homan: So, they’re lying to the American people. Sanctuary cities are sanctuaries for criminals, hard stop. It isn’t about protecting victims and witnesses, it’s about protecting criminals, and that’s what you’re doing.

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Daily Signal Staff

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DHS Head Mullin Weighs Shutting Down International Airports in ‘Sanctuary’ Cities

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The new Homeland Security chief is considering taking action to bring “sanctuary” jurisdictions into line with federal law. In his first interview since taking over the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Secretary Markwayne Mullin suggested the possibility of revoking customs privileges at international airports in cities and states that refuse to cooperate with the federal government in enforcing federal immigration law. He asked, “If they’re a sanctuary city, should they really be processing customs into their city?”

“If they’re a sanctuary city, and they’re receiving international flights, and we’re asking them to partner with us at the airport, but once they walk out of the airport, they’re not going to enforce immigration policy — maybe we need to have a really hard look at that,” Mullin mused in the Monday night Fox News interview. “I’m going to be forced to make hard decisions. Who’s willing to work with us and partner with us?” he added, noting that he would not overstep the authorities established for DHS by Congress but would do what was in his power to break “sanctuary” jurisdictions. “I believe sanctuary cities [are] not lawful. I don’t think they’re able to do that. And so, we’re going to take a hard look at this.”

Albuquerque International Sunport in New Mexico, Boston Logan International Airport in Massachusetts, Chicago Midway International Airport and Chicago O’Hare International Airport in Illinois, Denver International Airport in Colorado, Los Angeles International Airport in California, John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport in New York, Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, Philadelphia International Airport in Pennsylvania, and Portland International Airport in Oregon would all likely be impacted if Mullin revokes customs privileges for “sanctuary” jurisdictions.

Without Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel and facilities, an airport cannot legally process international arrivals, effectively prohibiting scheduled international flights from landing at the effected airports and rendering those airports domestic-only landing zones. Mullin’s suggestion would not only financially cripple the airports themselves, especially larger hubs like Boston Logan International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport, and Newark Liberty International Airport but would also severely impact the “sanctuary” cities themselves.

In 2024, international tourists spent approximately $3.75 billion in the Greater Boston area, supporting nearly 100,000 jobs in Massachusetts, including nearly seven percent of the workforce in the City of Boston alone, and generating over $2 billion in state and local taxes. International tourism is even more vital to New York City, where tourists spent over $55 billion in 2025, generating $84.7 billion in total economic impact, supporting nearly 10% of the city’s workforce, and generating $7.5 billion in tax revenue. International tourism in Los Angeles generated over $40 billion in local business sales, supporting nearly 600,000 jobs and creating over $12 billion in taxes. Each of these cities, as well as the state governments of Massachusetts, New York, and California, would suffer economically if DHS were to revoke customs privileges.

Asked if “sanctuary” jurisdiction international airports are really at risk of losing customs privileges, Mullin replied, “Well, I’m saying we’re going to have to start prioritizing things at some point.” He added, “Right now, remember, the Democrats are wanting to defund Customs and Border Patrol. Well, who processes those individuals when they walk off the plane?”

Appearing on “Washington Watch” Monday night, Rep. Brad Knott (R-N.C.) also emphasized the role that congressional Democrats have played in the ongoing shutdown of core DHS components. “The Democrats want to stop all immigration enforcement. That’s what this boils down to, truly,” Knott said. He noted that Republicans in the House of Representatives passed a funding bill to appropriate funds for the entirety of DHS, but Senate Democrats rejected the measure. “The Senate has said, ‘We want to hollow out the ICE funding and the Border Patrol funding, otherwise we’re not going to play ball here.’ And so, they have essentially held the entire department hostage in an effort to halt immigration enforcement.”

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The Theory and Practice of Sanctuary Cities and States

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I began publishing a series of humanitarian hoax articles in July 2017, each article beginning with the same dire warning paragraph:

The humanitarian hoax is the deliberate and deceitful tactic of presenting a destructive policy as altruistic. The humanitarian huckster presents himself as a compassionate advocate when in fact he is the disguised enemy.

I identified former president Barack Hussein Obama as the huckster-in-chief and by October 2019, after reaching 50 hoaxes, decided to publish the collection as a book. The Book of Humanitarian Hoaxes: Killing America with ‘Kindness’ was released in June 2020.

It is now January 2026 and time to examine the consequences of the humanitarian hoax policies launched by humanitarian huckster-in-chief Obama during his deceitful 2008-2016 tenure. I have reprinted Hoax 9 below for its historical context.

H OA X 9

The Humanitarian Hoax of Sanctuary Cities

October 1, 2017

The humanitarian hoax is the deliberate and deceitful tactic of presenting a destructive policy as altruistic. The humanitarian huckster presents himself as a compassionate advocate when in fact he is the disguisedenemy.

Barack Obama, humanitarian huckster-in-chief, weakened the United States for eight years by persuading America to accept his obstructive, politically correct sanctuary city policies as altruistic when in fact they were designed to destabilize and destroy civil society.

The term “sanctuary city” originated in the 1980s when San Francisco passed a city ordinance forbidding city police and city magistrates from assisting federal immigration officers in enforcing immigration policies that denied asylum to refugees from Guatemala and El Salvador. The mission of the sanctuary city was to protect innocent refugees from deportation—although these immigrants were in the United States illegally, they had not committed any other crimes.

Today [2017], sanctuary cities are actually sanctuary jurisdictions because they include cities, counties, and, probably soon, states. Over 300 sanctuary jurisdictions exist in America today, actively hindering federal authorities in their ability to seize illegal criminal aliens, rapists, murderers, terrorists, and drug dealers for deportation.

The shocking murder of twenty-one-year-old Kate Steinle on July 1, 2015, publicized the danger of sanctuary jurisdictions. The shooter, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico with seven felony convictions, had been deported five times and intentionally sought shelter in San Francisco. Yet officials in “sanctuary city” San Francisco refused to turn him over to federal authorities for deportation and instead released him into society, enabling him to kill Kate Steinle.

The three Muslim migrant boys ages 7, 10, and 14 who sexually assaulted, raped, and urinated in the mouth of an innocent five-year-old girl in Twin Falls, Idaho, on June 24, 2016, were protected as well. No jail time, no deportation. Instead, according to a courtroom observer, they were found guilty of lewd conduct and placed on probation. These monsters were shielded by the mainstream media and local city officials, who tried to cover up the case and pretend that Twin Falls was a model for multiculturalism. Wendy Olson, Obama-appointed U.S. attorney for Idaho, stunned the country by threatening to prosecute Idahoans who spoke out about the heinous crime in ways SHE considered “false or inflammatory.”

Judge Thomas Borresen issued an equally stunning gag order that denied the right of anyone in the courtroom to speak about the sentencing even AFTER the case ended. Mathew Staver, chairman and co-founder of the nonprofit legal assistance agency Liberty Counsel, says the ruling is completely illegal. “Case law is clear,” he says. “You cannot gag someone after the case is over.”

Twin Falls is one of two Muslim refugee relocation centers in Idaho. Rather than identifying itself as a “sanctuary city,” Twin Falls has chosen the equally disingenuous name of “welcoming city” and declared itself to be a “neighborly community.” REALLY? Protecting rapists and censoring free speech is definitely not neighborly for the victims!

The word sanctuary implies safety from a threat; it does not mean shelter for immigrant criminal felons, rapists, murderers, and terrorists who threaten the safety of law-abiding citizens. Why would any law-abiding citizen endorse the protection of these criminals, whether they are illegal aliens or legal citizens? The answer lies in the active participation by the mainstream media in the Humanitarian Hoax of Sanctuary Cities. The media have deliberately romanticized sanctuary cities as humanitarian havens for the oppressed instead of honestly reporting them as despicable safety zones for criminal aliens. The colluding media have duped the trusting American public and exploited their compassion and goodwill.

The original mission of sanctuary cities has been perverted from the protection of innocent refugees into the protection of guilty criminal aliens at the expense of public safety. Sanctuary cities in America continue to flagrantly defy federal law. Thirty years after San Francisco became the first sanctuary city, California seeks to become the first sanctuary state.

The protection of illegal aliens from deportation incentivizes illegal entry into the United States, which has enormous economic and political consequences. Illegal aliens overload our welfare system, cost American taxpayers a whopping $116 billion per year, and rob Americans of their jobs.

Barack Obama gave sanctuary jurisdictions the freedom to ignore detention orders from the federal agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with his June 2015 executive action establishing the Priority Enforcement Program, allowing local agencies to ignore ICE notifications of deportable aliens in their custody.

To understand Obama’s motive, simply look at the benefits to Democrats of increasing the number of illegal aliens:

  • Secures more Democrat votes for the leftist agenda. Elected leftist Democrats will grant illegals immunity to vote legally and eventually grant them citizenship, knowing they will vote Democrat and ensure Democrat leadership for the foreseeable future.
  • Creates social chaos by importing populations with hostile cultural norms.
  • Creates divisiveness by taking American jobs.
  • Alienates legal citizens, who receive far fewer government benefits than do illegal aliens.
  • Eventually collapses the economies of sanctuary jurisdictions.

Obama’s executive action flagrantly violated 8 U.S.C. § 1373, a 1996 law requiring government entities and officials to cooperate with the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the predecessor of ICE.

Finally, in July 2016 Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas), chair of the Commerce, Justice, and Science Committee on Appropriations, took action against the danger and sent a letter to the Department of Justice demanding that federal law enforcement grants be denied to cities not in compliance with the 1996 law.

During the five years from 2011 to 2016, local and state governments received over $3.4 billion in federal law enforcement grants. Rep. Culberson gave sanctuary jurisdictions a choice: either continue to receive the grant money or protect dangerous illegal criminal aliens. They could no longer do both.

Sanctuary jurisdictions doubled down and continue to defy the law. San Francisco and Santa Clara counties challenged President Trump’s policy in court. In April 2017 U.S. District Judge William Orrick, an Obama appointee, issued a temporary ruling that blocked the president’s directive to withhold federal funding from cities that refuse to comply fully with federal immigration enforcement. The lawfare campaign designed to delay and disrupt President Trump’s America-first agenda was launched.

No-go zones are geographic areas within a country that brazenly disregard the laws of the country. No-go zones establish a two-tier system of justice within a country because they observe a different set of laws. All across Europe, Islamists have established religious no-go zones that recognize Islamic Sharia law exclusively. All across America, leftists have created sanctuary jurisdictions that flagrantly defy federal law.

People will stand quietly and peacefully in long lines until one person jumps the line. It is a fascinating social dynamic that as long as members of a group abide by the same rules, the consequence is harmony. It is the unfairness of the line-jumper that creates anger and social chaos. Social chaos for seismic social change is the goal of the Leftist/Islamist axis that supports the two-tier system of justice created by secular sanctuary jurisdictions and religious no-go zones.

The globalist elite who fund the leftist humanitarian hucksters are desperate to block Trump’s policies that defund sanctuary jurisdictions. The colluding mainstream media continue to deceitfully portray leftist sanctuary jurisdictions as altruistic, denying that protecting illegal criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans is a sinister leftist political tactic designed to destabilize and destroy America.

If the globalists are successful, the world will be returned to the dystopian existence of masters and slaves because a willfully blind American public was seduced by the Humanitarian Hoax of Sanctuary Cities. The humanitarian hoax will have succeeded in killing America with “kindness.”

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In 2015 sanctuary jurisdictions numbered 300 cities, in 2026 the expansion of sanctuary jurisdictions now includes cities, counties, and states numbering:

  • 200-300 sanctuary cities
  • 300-400 sanctuary counties
  • 17 sanctuary states including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Washington + the District of Columbia.

As of late 2025 the proportion of Democrat-controlled vs. Republican-controlled cities, counties and states show a stunning correlation between Democrat control and sanctuary policies:

  • 200-300 sanctuary cities = 94-97% Democrat-controlled, 3-6% Republican-controlled
  • 300-400 sanctuary counties = 80-90% Democrat-controlled, 10-20% Republican-controlled
  • 17 states = 82% (14) Democrat-controlled, 18% (3) Republican controlled

Chaired by Jim Jordan, the January 18, 2024, interim staff report of the Judiciary Committee discloses the catastrophic results of Biden’s open border policy. Titled, “New Data Reveal Worsening Magnitude of the Biden Border Crisis and Lack of Interior Immigration Enforcement,” shows an estimated 5,000 illegal aliens a day were released into the United States. The report reveals that during the two years between January 20, 2021, and August 31, 2023, over 5 million illegal aliens were released into the United States.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimates there are approximately 18.6 million illegal alien immigrants living in the United States as of March 2025.

The destructive radical leftist sanctuary policies launched by Barack Obama and advanced by Joe Biden continue to destabilize America and create chaos in every city, county, and state where they have been institutionalized. Obama’s particular deceit is word perversion. The word sanctuary is a powerful emotionally triggering word that generates virtuous feelings of empathy, compassion, protection, and shelter for the innocent. The problem, of course, is that illegally entering the United States is a crime, so there is no such thing as an innocent illegal alien. But we are no longer talking about illegal aliens who have committed no other crimes. Today we are discussing the illegal alien perpetrators of violent crimes.

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton reports that President Trump’s nationwide March 2025 initiative, Operation Take Back America, “aims to repel the invasion of illegal immigration and protect American communities from perpetrators of violent crimes.”

The illegal aliens that President Trump is deporting in 2026 are criminals who have committed the most heinous crimes in America including murder, rape, promotion of child pornography, sexual assault of a child, burglary, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, arson, unlawful possession of a firearm, and domestic violence. Fitton explains that “Most are members of violent gangs, including the renowned Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), Tren de Aragua, Latin Kings, 15th Street Gang, Sureños, Paisas and Tango Blast.”

What was the political motive of the open borders and sanctuary policies of the Obama and Biden administrations? Obama’s deceitful sanctuary policies were the first step in today’s radical leftist Democrat nullification. Nullification is derived from its root word nullify which means to make legally null and void; invalidate; cancel; overturn. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines nullification as:

  1. The act of nullifying or the state of being nullified.
  2. The action of a state impeding or attempting to prevent the operation and enforcement within its territory of a law of the U.S.
  3. Jury Nullification: the acquitting of a defendant by a jury in disregard of the judge’s instructions and contrary to the jury’s findings of fact.

The theory of sanctuary cities and states was weaponized as the instrument and practice of nullification. And nullification is being supported through seditious lawfare––the strategic weaponization and abuse of the legal system to delegitimize President Trump; impede his presidential efforts to restore law and order in America; and to create overwhelming chaos. Lawfare is the term that combines law and warfare. Lawfare is the abusive exploitation of the legal system against political opponents including appointing radical leftist judges who ignore the law and rule from their own radical leftist political ideology.

The radical leftist Democrat party, with the help of colluding RINOs (Republicans in name only) and the globalist mainstream media, have been bludgeoning law-abiding Americans with Orwellian policies that protect vicious illegal alien criminals at the expense of law-abiding citizens. They have been using lawfare to advance their goals and to neutralize President Trump. WHY? Because nullification, the absolute refusal of states to apply federal law which under the U.S. Constitution they are obligated to do, is designed to challenge the Constitution and ultimately shatter the United States into separate states.

The trajectory and progression from sanctuary cities to sanctuary states to nullification of the supremacy of federal and constitutional law, culminates in the collapse of the union of fifty states. What then? Possibilities include:

  • Sanctuary states withdrawing from the union
  • Civil war between sanctuary states and constitutional states
  • Demise of the United States of America with constitutional states remaining united in a constitutional republic as envisioned by our Founding Fathers, and sanctuary states reconstituted in form and content parallel to the European Union––ideologically, politically, and economically united but not necessarily contiguous geographically.

The radical leftist Democrat party is the ideological, political, and economic enemy within. Its anti-American, anti-Judeo-Christian, pro-Muslim, Marxist platform is wholly antithetical to the precepts and constitutional laws of the United States.

Current events in Minnesota demonstrate the defiance and nullification protocols being encouraged by Democrat Governor Tim Walz and the Democrat mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Telling citizens to defy ICE agents and challenge their federal authority is nullification. These seditious events and challenges are being promoted across the country in Democrat-controlled sanctuary cities and states. They are the movement of the radical leftist Democrat/Socialist party. This is an ideological war being waged by Americans, against Americans, in America!

Sanctuary cities and states are a consummate humanitarian hoax designed to collapse the United States. They are an essential part of the overarching globalist war on nation-states. Globalism is a replacement ideology that seeks to reorder the world into one singular, planetary Unistate, ruled by the globalist elite.

The globalist war on nation-states cannot succeed without collapsing the United States of America. The long-term strategic attack plan moves America incrementally from constitutional republic to socialism to globalism to feudalism. Europe has already fallen, and the radical leftist Democrat/Socialist party in America, funded and fomented by the globalist elite, is using lawfare, sanctuary cities, and sanctuary states as its instruments of nullification to collapse the United States from within. Nullification is globalism’s existential threat to America that must be confronted and defeated.

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Sanctuary State Illinois Releases Nearly 1,800 Violent Illegal Immigrants

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Since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term to present day, Illinois’s sanctuary state policies have led to the release of nearly 1,800 illegal immigrants. Their crimes, however, are not limited to illegally crossing the border, but also include charges of murder, assault, burglary, robbery, and sex crimes.

This data was released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Todd Lyons on Monday. According to a press release from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Illinois officials have already failed “to honor ICE detainers,” which has “resulted in the release of 1,768 criminal illegal aliens since January 20.” The crimes of these convicted immigrants, many of whom are now roaming free within the state (or elsewhere), include the following: five charges of homicide, 141 charges of assault, 23 charges of burglary, four charges of robbery, 24 charges of dangerous drugs offenses, 15 charges of weapons offenses, and 10 charges of sexual predatory offenses.

As the DHS went on to highlight, “There are currently 4,015 aliens in the custody of an Illinois jurisdiction with an active detainer. The crimes of these aliens include 51 homicides, 1,134 assaults, 107 burglaries, 36 robberies, 275 dangerous drugs offenses, 120 weapons offenses, and 813 sexual predatory offenses.” Some egregious cases, as emphasized by the DHS, of illegal immigrants released by Governor Pritzker and other state sanctuary politicians, include:

  • Victor Manuel Mendoza-Garcia — “arrested and convicted for 3 counts of aggravated kidnapping/ransom and sentenced to 18 years in [the] Illinois Department of Corrections in Cook County Court in Illinois. ICE’s detainer for Mendoza-Garcia was not honored. On November 12, ICE arrested Mendoza-Garcia where he remains in ICE custody.”
  • Juan Alberto Caro Marin — arrested and convicted of aggravated criminal sexual abuse/victim/family and sentenced to six years in [the] Illinois Department of Corrections. ICE’s detainer for Caro Marin was not honored. On November 9, ICE arrested Caro Marin where he is currently in ICE custody.
  • Amilcar Waldo Gonzalez-Jimenez — “arrested and convicted for 1 count of driving under the influence and domestic battery and 2 counts of criminal sexual assault. ICE’s detainer for Gonzalez-Jimenez was not honored. On November 13, ICE arrested Gonzalez-Jimenez.”
  • Jose Manuel Fuentes-Vargas — “arrested for domestic battery, violation of protection order, and convicted of sexual assault of a victim less than 13 years of age. ICE’s detainer for Fuentes-Vargas was not honored. On October 30, ICE arrested Fuentes-Vargas where he is currently in ICE custody.”

Several other examples put forth by the department included criminals who targeted children. Notably, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul (D) received a letter from ICE in September. The agency requested state officials cooperate with ICE efforts to detain illegals, but Raoul’s office never responded.

As part of the newly released data, Assistant Secretary of the DHS Tricia McLaughlin asserted that “Governor Pritzker and his fellow Illinois sanctuary politicians are releasing murderers, pedophiles, and kidnappers back into our neighborhoods and putting American lives at risk.” She called “on Governor Pritzker and his administration to stop this dangerous derangement and commit to honoring the ICE arrest detainers of the more than 4,000 criminal illegal aliens in Illinois’ custody. It is common sense. Criminal illegal aliens should not be released back onto our streets to terrorize more innocent Americans.”

According to a letter from Lyons shared with Fox News, Illinois has “tens of thousands of criminal illegal aliens” in custody that Lyons urged “should be swiftly removed from the United States and not be returned to our streets to wreak havoc on law-abiding citizens.”

As Erin Schniederjan, research assistant for Homeland Security, shared with The Washington Stand, “Illinois should repeal the TRUST Act, in which doing so would allow local law enforcement to participate in federal immigration enforcement. Illinois residents should also be empowered to sue state officials who obstruct federal law enforcement. The new ICE-out legislation Governor Pritzker just signed facilitates residents to sue federal law enforcement for enforcing federal immigration law, but Illinois residents still can’t hold state officials accountable for obstructing federal law enforcement.”

As Schniederjan went on to explain, “Sanctuary policies allow illegal aliens to be protected, and unrightfully so. Protecting illegal aliens, many of them being violent criminals, only puts communities at risk. Think of all of the crimes that could have been prevented and people that would still be with us if sanctuary policies didn’t exist.” Ultimately, she added, “If Illinois and other states alike actually cared about their residents, they would work with federal law enforcement to remove the illegal aliens who have no right to be here in the first place.”

Schniederjan concluded by calling for accountability: “The federal government can hold states accountable for harboring illegal aliens by revoking state and city funding.” Otherwise, “sanctuary jurisdictions will prioritize illegal aliens over their own citizens to maintain political power.”

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Sarah Holliday

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State, County, and City Officials Nixing ‘Sanctuary’ Policies to Avoid Trump Admin. Ire

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As President Donald Trump and his administration continue enforcing federal immigration law, several “sanctuary” jurisdictions have opted to reverse course and rescind policies barring state and local police from assisting federal agents. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Monday that Nevada has been removed from the Trump administration’s public list of “sanctuary” jurisdictions after 17 sheriffs, under the leadership of Governor Joe Lombardo (R), recommitted to cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), honoring ICE detainers, and assisting in the arrests of illegal immigrants.

“When others cower, real leaders step up. I applaud the Nevada Sheriffs’ & Chiefs’ Association and Governor [Lombardo] for their commitment to working with [ICE] to protect American citizens from dangerous criminal illegal aliens,” Noem said in a social media post. “Because of their efforts, Nevada has been removed from the Trump Administration’s sanctuary jurisdiction list. I encourage every leader across our nation to follow their example so that all Americans can live in peace and safety.”

In August, the Department of Justice (DOJ) published a list of “sanctuary” jurisdictions, which included Nevada and 11 other states. In a letter to Noem, the sheriffs of Carson City, Las Vegas, and Churchill, Douglas, Elko, Esmerelda, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Lincoln, Lyon, Mineral, Nye, Pershing, Storey, Washoe, and White Pine Counties confirmed that their offices will cooperate with ICE in matters of immigration law enforcement. “We are committed to ensuring our jurisdictions are in full compliance with federal and state laws, especially when it comes to immigration enforcement actions in support of the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts,” the sheriffs wrote. “Our commitment is to serve and protect the communities of Nevada, prioritizing public safety and professionalism. Sheriffs of NV and NV Sheriffs’ and Chiefs’ Association shares federal law enforcement’s zero tolerance policy for criminals endangering Nevada communities.”

Baltimore County in Maryland also rescinded “sanctuary” policies in an effort to be removed from the DOJ’s list. County officials signed a memorandum of understanding late last month pledging to cooperate with ICE, although state leadership still largely opposes the president’s immigration agenda. “Despite restrictions from state leadership, Baltimore County has shown a willingness to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement,” Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said in a statement. “This is a small step toward restoring public safety and we appreciate the county’s commitment to updating its policies.”

Since signing the memorandum, Baltimore County has been removed from the DOJ’s list. According to a report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), Maryland released nearly 400 illegal immigrants from jails and prisons between October 1 of 2022 and February 6 of 2025, including at least one illegal immigrant released from the Baltimore County Detention Center despite having a homicide conviction or charge. Maryland’s Gaithersburg Police Department and Howard County Detention Center also both released illegal immigrants who had either homicide convictions or homicide charges.

Earlier this year, Mayor Craig Greenberg (D) of Louisville, Kentucky, also rescinded “sanctuary” policies, in the face of action from the federal government. Although Greenberg insisted that the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department (LMPD) is “not involved in enforcing federal immigration policy,” the mayor did agree to honor ICE detainers, when ICE asks state or local police to keep an illegal immigrant already jailed for committing a crime jailed for an extended period so that ICE can safely take custody of the illegal immigrant in a law enforcement facility. “The federal government’s 48-hour detainer is standard practice for the State of Kentucky’s Department of Corrections today. It was also standard practice for Louisville Metro Corrections until 2017. We are currently the only city in Kentucky that doesn’t follow this practice,” Greenberg confessed. “Metro Corrections will begin honoring 48-hour federal detainers as soon as practical because the stakes are too high. In turn, Louisville will no longer be considered a ‘sanctuary city’ by the federal government.”

Greenberg also noted that his administration decided to comply with federal law in order to avoid federal lawsuits and targeted action by ICE. “Cities on the sanctuary city list right now are experiencing a terrifying increase in raids by ICE, including mass raids,” the mayor said. “From the data I’ve reviewed, we’re talking about under 100 inmates at our jail each year who are charged with crimes and affected by detainers. We have tens of thousands of immigrant families in Louisville. We do not want to see highly coordinated and often violent federal enforcement action here…”

In comments to The Washington Stand, Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, suggested, “The simplest thing states and localities can do to avoid preventable crimes is to allow ICE into their prisons to pick up known criminal aliens who are about to be released following their criminal detention.” She explained, “Border Czar Tom Homan has said countless times that if sanctuary jurisdictions refuse to allow ICE into their prisons, ICE must go into the community in which the sanctuary jurisdiction released the criminal alien to take custody. This requires more planning, more agents, and resources.” Ries added, “It also endangers the agents, the alien, and community members if the alien, community members, and/or protestors refuse to cooperate with ICE or interfere with the agents.”

“The federal government should withhold federal funds from states and localities that hinder federal agents from carrying out federal laws. The Justice Department has placed several jurisdictions on notice that they may lose federal funds if they do not change their sanctuary policies,” Ries observed. “These three jurisdictions have realized the seriousness of the consequences and are course correcting to do the bare minimum — hold a criminal alien for up to an additional 48 hours for ICE to pick them up,” she continued. “It’s time for all named jurisdictions on the DOJ sanctuary list to do the same to protect their own citizens and uphold the rule of law.”

Jessica Vaughan, director of Policy Studies for CIS, told TWS, “Sanctuary policies are a serious public safety problem, and especially concerning because they are adopted for purely political reasons.” She explained, “The biggest problem is that they inevitably result in the release of criminal aliens who were arrested for local crimes and otherwise would be taken straight into ICE custody if not for the policies forced on the law enforcement agencies. We know from ICE records that a significant number (about 1/4) will commit another crime in the first few months after release (‘Rejecting Detainers, Endangering Communities’). More will re-offend if they are allowed to remain on the streets here.”

Vaughan continued, “In addition, sanctuary policies force ICE officers to do their work on the streets instead of in a secure location like a jail. This results in the kind of chaotic and dangerous situations we’re now seeing in Chicago, Portland, Los Angeles, and other places.”

“While many local governments see the light after tragedies happen, like the Laken Riley case, it’s clear that the diehard sanctuaries like Chicago and Boston will never abandon their policies on their own,” Vaughan observed. “That’s why it’s important for the federal government to impose consequences. Louisville and Baltimore County and a number of other jurisdictions have done the right thing, and hopefully others will follow suit.”

The DOJ’s “sanctuary” jurisdiction list currently includes California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, the District of Columbia, Cook County (Ill.), San Diego County (Calif.), San Francisco County (Calif.), Albuquerque, Berkeley (Calif.), Boston, Chicago, Denver, East Lansing (Mich.), Hoboken (N.J.), Jersey City (N.J.), Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, Newark (N.J.), Paterson (N.J.), Philadelphia, Portland, Rochester (N.Y.), Seattle, and San Francisco City.

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EXCLUSIVE: Dusty Johnson Unveils Bill To Drop Hammer On Sanctuary Cities

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Republican South Dakota Rep. Dusty Johnson will introduce legislation Monday to codify one of President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting sanctuary cities.

Johnson’s No DOT [Department of Transportation] Funds for Sanctuary Cities Act would prevent the DOT secretary from issuing any federal funding to cities that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities, such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The legislation would build on an executive order the president signed in April, which directed federal agencies to identify grants and awards issued to sanctuary jurisdictions for possible termination, according to a release from Johnson’s office exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Johnson previously signaled he would introduce legislation cracking down on sanctuary cities during a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on July 16. DOT Secretary Sean Duffy, who testified during the hearing on the agency’s fiscal year 2026 budget request, voiced support for the measure.

“It’s absurd that we have sanctuary cities who ignore federal law, allow anti-ICE rioters to destroy transportation infrastructure, and then those same local governments will turn around and ask the federal government to foot the bill for the repairs,” Johnson said during the hearing.

“I couldn’t agree with you more. If you allow your city to be burned or even in LA where we’re allowing rioters to destroy our streets, the federal taxpayer should not come back and then rebuild what they allowed to be destroyed,” Duffy replied to the congressman.

Duffy threatened to pull federal transportation funding to sanctuary cities, such as Los Angeles, in June following a torrent of anti-ICE riots engulfing the city.  The Trump administration sued Los Angeles over its sanctuary city policies on June 30, citing the city’s refusal to share data with and limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

The violent Los Angeles riots protesting the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies rose to more than $32 million as of June 23.

Common sanctuary city policies include prohibiting local law enforcement from honoring ICE detainer requests and declining to notify federal immigration authorities about the impending release of an illegal immigrant.

Trump signed an executive order in April titled, “Protecting American Communities from Criminal Aliens,” which stated that cities who refuse cooperation with federal immigration authorities could lose federal funding.

“[S]ome State and local officials nevertheless continue to use their authority to violate, obstruct and defy the enforcement of Federal immigration laws,” the president’s executive order read. “This is a lawless insurrection against the supremacy of Federal law and the Federal Government’s obligation to defend the territorial sovereignty of the United States.”

The legislation’s cosponsors include Republican Reps. Brian Babin of Texas, Buddy Carter of Georgia, Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, David Taylor of Ohio, Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin and Pat Harrigan of North Carolina.

Johnson is chair of House Republicans’ Main Street Caucus, a group of more than 80 GOP lawmakers who call themselves “pragmatic conservatives.” He announced his campaign for the South Dakota governorship in June.

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Karoline Leavitt Says Trump Admin’s Naming And Shaming Of Sanctuary Cities Coming Back

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the Daily Caller on Tuesday that the Trump administration will soon be releasing a new list of sanctuary cities that are not in compliance with federal statutes.

The Department of Homeland and Security removed its previous list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” Sunday, which was previously ordered under a Trump executive order. After the list was first posted, several city leaders voiced concerns that their areas were included in the list.

Leavitt told the Caller at Tuesday’s White House briefing that the list would be reinstated soon.

“The Department of Homeland Security will be releasing a new list of sanctuary cities – an accurate list of sanctuary cities,” she said.

The Caller also asked Leavitt how the administration would be cracking down on sanctuary jurisdictions following the terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday. A month before the attack, the state passed sanctuary protections for illegal immigrants.

“As for what we’re doing to crack down, the president has signed executive orders and has directed the attorney general to prosecute federal – state and local officials were not complying with federal immigration force – authorities, and most importantly, federal immigration law,” Leavitt told the Caller.

Trump’s April executive order on sanctuary cities warned that jurisdictions that do not comply with federal law would be at risk of losing federal funding. The order also directs the U.S. attorney general and secretary of Homeland Security to “pursue all necessary legal remedies and enforcement measures to bring non-compliant jurisdictions into compliance.”

“The Order ensures illegal aliens are not being favored over American citizens by directing the Attorney General to address state or local laws that unlawfully prioritize aliens,” a fact sheet on the order writes.

It was under the same order that Trump directed DHS to publish a list of states and local jurisdictions that are “obstructing federal immigration law enforcement.” Each sanctuary jurisdiction will be notified of its non-compliance so they can be given an “opportunity to correct it.”

“DHS demands that these jurisdictions immediately review and revise their policies to align with Federal immigration laws and renew their obligation to protect American citizens, not dangerous illegal aliens,” the previous list reads.

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Trump’s Attorney General Tackles Cartels, Border, and ‘Weaponization’ of DOJ on Day 1

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Less than two days after being confirmed, the new U.S. attorney general is already moving to end political corruption in the justice system and support the president’s agenda. Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (R) was confirmed Tuesday night as the new attorney general serving under President Donald Trump. According to a Fox News report, Bondi’s first day as chief of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) included issuing several directives focused on securing the border, enforcing immigration law, and promoting Trump’s policies.

One of Bondi’s first moves as attorney general was to bolster border security and target criminal cartels. According to memos issued by Bondi, the DOJ will expedite the prosecutions of cartel leaders and officers and suspend certain “bureaucratic approvals and reviews” when dealing with cartels. She has also “further empowered and elevated” to the Office of the Attorney General Joint Task Force Vulcan, an interdepartmental group focused on combating the MS-13 gang, and Joint Task Force Alpha, centered on tackling human trafficking, which has burgeoned at the southern border over the past several years. Bondi is also planning to reclassify crimes related to possession of fentanyl-manufacturing equipment, introducing more stringent and severe penalties. The new attorney general declared that the Trump administration intends to “completely eliminate” the cartels.

Bondi’s directives are also aimed to buttress Trump’s immigration agenda, including supporting mass deportations. So far, Bondi has frozen all federal funding for “sanctuary cities” and is launching investigations into governors, mayors, and other executives who are in any way obstructing deportation missions executed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). She has also ordered DOJ officials to begin prosecutions where applicable. Non-government organizations (NGOs) linked to the illegal immigration crisis will also be investigated.

In order to back Trump’s presidential policies with the full force of the justice system, Bondi reminded DOJ attorneys that their responsibilities are not only “aggressively enforcing criminal laws passed by Congress, but also vigorously defending presidential policies and actions on behalf of the United States against legal challenges.” She explained, “The discretion afforded Justice Department attorneys with respect to those responsibilities does not include latitude to substitute their personal political views or judgments for those that prevailed in the election.”

Bondi continued, “When Justice Department attorneys refuse to faithfully carry out their role by, for example, refusing to advance good-faith arguments or declining to sign briefs, it undermines the constitutional order and deprives the President of the benefit of his lawyers.” The attorney general added that “any Justice Department attorney who declines to sign a brief, refuses to advance good-faith arguments on behalf of the Trump administration, or otherwise delays or impedes the Justice Department’s mission will be subject to discipline and potentially termination.”

Bondi also announced the creation of a “Weaponization Working Group” to investigate instances of the DOJ and the FBI being weaponized against Americans over the past four years. The group will investigate the politically-motivated prosecutions against Trump, including those carried out by former U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith, New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The group will also review January 6 prosecutions, the FBI’s targeting of American Catholics and parents attending school board meetings, and the persecution of pro-life Americans under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.

Following an executive order issued by Trump, Bondi will also oversee the dismantling of any diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) office, program, or initiative in the DOJ, especially concerning training and hiring. She insisted that the DOJ and its subsidiaries will implement “fair admission practices” and hire based “solely on merit,” as opposed to identity-based quotas. All DEI programs in the DOJ must be confirmed as eliminated by March 15. Prior to Bondi’s confirmation, FBI whistleblower and former special agent Steve Friend reported that DEI is deeply entrenched in the law enforcement agency, predicting that eliminating it might prove difficult for Bondi and Trump’s pick for FBI Director, Kash Patel.

Additional directives issued by Bondi include establishing a joint task force to investigate Hamas for the attack against Israel on October 7, 2023, and reinstating the use of the federal death penalty, including “re-evaluat[ing] instances of the prior administration electing not to seek the death penalty” and scrapping DOJ policies that are “not sufficiently in line with President Trump’s death penalty executive order.”

Bondi was confirmed in her role as U.S. attorney general by the U.S. Senate in a Tuesday night vote. She was confirmed 54 to 46, with Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.) crossing the aisle and being the only Democrat to support Trump’s pick. The new AG was sworn in on Wednesday morning by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. At the swearing-in ceremony, Trump declared that Bondi is “going to restore fair, equal, and impartial justice and restore the constitutional rule of law in America.”

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S.A. McCarthy

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SANCTUARY POLICIES PROTECT SEX OFFENDERS: Victims are mere ‘speed bumps’ on the road to anarchy.

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On September 12, 2018 the Department of Homeland Security issued a press release, ICE arrests 16 during 2-day Operation SOAR in the New York City metropolitan area.<

Here is an excerpt from that press release:

In years past, most of these individuals would have been turned over to ICE by local authorities upon their release from jail based on ICE detainers. Now that many sanctuary cities, including New York City, do not honor ICE detainers, these individuals, who often have significant criminal histories, are released onto the street, presenting a potential public safety threat.

“Many of those arrested in this operation had been found guilty of inappropriate sexual behavior against a minor,” said Thomas R. Decker, field office director for ERO New York. “Our communities are safer, our children are safer, from the efforts of the men and women of ICE. We have removed them from our city’s streets and we will seek to remove them from the United States.”

Arrests include:

  • In the Bronx, a 53 year-old, Mexican national, released from NYPD custody with an active detainer, who has convictions for criminal possession of a loaded firearm; criminal possession of a weapon: defaced for concealment; and sexual misconduct: male has intercourse with a female without her consent;
  • In Manhattan, a 42 year-old previously removed Salvadoran national, who has a conviction for sexual abuse of a child less than 11 years of age;
  • In Maspeth, a 39 year-old Dominican national, who has a conviction for sexual abuse, and is a registered sexual offender;
  • In Wyandanch, a 32 year-old Guatemalan national, who has a conviction for course of sexual conduct against a child less than 13 years of age;
  • In Huntington Station, a 40 year-old previously removed Salvadoran national, who has a conviction for rape, and who has failed to register as a sexual offender;
  • In Deer Park, a 54 year-old Italian national, who has a conviction for possession of sexual performance by child less than 16 years of age;
  • In the Bronx, a 42 year-old Ghanaian national, who has a conviction for sexual contact with an individual greater than 17 incapable of giving consent;

Criminal histories of those arrested during the operation are as follows: Acting in Manner Injure Child, Assault, Attempted Assault, Attempted Rape 1st: Forcible Compulsion, Course of Sexual Conduct Against a Child Criminal Possession of a Loaded Firearm, Criminal Possession of a Weapon, Disorderly Conduct, Forcible Touching, Harassment, Possession of Sexual Performance; Sexual Abuse 1st , Sexual Abuse 2nd, Sexual Contact, Sexual Misconduct, and Unlawful Surveillance.

As the press release noted, and as I have noted in previous articles and commentaries, when criminals complete their prison sentences and are put back on the street, all too often the results are horrific with more innocent people falling victim to these criminals.

For all of the efforts made to  alter the criminal behavior of criminals, the problem of recidivism is pervasive.  Many jails are optimistically referred to as “Correctional Facilities” but tragically all too often the attempts at “correction” fail, frequently with catastrophic results.

One of the best and most effective ways of dealing with the problem of recidivism where alien criminals are concerned, is to deport aliens who have been convicted of committing crimes.  Our immigration laws provide for this remedy, yet the mayors of so-called “Sanctuary Cities” obstruct the federal government’s efforts to enforce immigration laws.

Law enforcement field operations, particularly those that result in arrests are inherently dangerous for all involved.  This includes innocent bystanders who may be injured as the subject of the arrest attempts to flee or violently resist arrest.

When aliens are incarcerated, it is a simple matter to transfer custody of the alien from the prison to ICE agents in the secure and controlled environment of a prison.  Aliens who are incarcerated are certainly not armed.  From all perspectives, transferring custody is safe and time-efficient in this ideal setting.

Yet mayors of Sanctuary Cities are eager to create the illusion that they are being “compassionate” by obstructing ICE agents, whom New York’s Governor Cuomo described as “thugs” from carrying out their sworn duties to protect national security and public safety.

In reality, Sanctuary Cities Endanger – National Security and Public Safety.

It is truly mind-boggling to imagine anyone believing that permitting aliens back on the street, even if they are registered sex offenders, or have been convicted of committing sex crimes, out of a desire to be “compassionate.”

It is beyond comprehension that New York City would refuse to cooperate with ICE to enable an alien from Mexico who had been convicted of carrying a defaced firearm who had been convicted of apparently raping a woman- perhaps at gun point, while New York City boasts that it has the toughest gun laws in the nation.

New York’s Mayor de Blasio is apparently okay with turning loose sex offender aliens who could be deported, even when such aliens illegally possess firearms, even firearms that are defaced (had their serial numbers removed) to make tracing those guns difficult or impossible.

Every violent felon who has been released and remains at large should be thought of as a “ticking time-bomb” who may, at any time, “go off.”

Yet the sympathies of the mayors of “Sanctuary Cities” and the Governors of “Sanctuary States” are clearly with the criminals and not with their potential victims, even when the criminal in question has a demonstrated proclivity to sexually abuse young children.

For all of the public breast-beating these politicians engage in about the separation of illegal alien children from their illegal alien parents, these same politicians, in the name of “compassion,” gleefully shield alien predators, who rape children loose in their “Sanctuary Cities.”

For all of the efforts to take guns away from Americans these same mayors turn illegal aliens, who have committed firearms-related crimes, loose in their towns and cities rather than have ICE take those violent criminals into custody.

Furthermore, by making it clear that criminal aliens will be actively shielded by local law enforcement from detection and arrest by ICE agents, Sanctuary Cities become extremely attractive “Magnet Cities” that attract transnational criminals, international terrorists and fugitives.

Time and again we have seen the publicized cases where criminal aliens who had been deported repeatedly returned to the United States to live and ply their criminal trades in Sanctuary Cities where they knew that they would be far less likely to be arrested by ICE for having illegally returned to the United States.

However for every such highly-publicized case like the case of Kate Steinle, who was killed by an illegal alien who had been previously deported from the United States numerous times, only to illegally reenter the United States, there are many, many more victims that the media does not report on.

This was the underlying them of my article, Many More Victims Of the Immigration Crisis Than Kate Steinle.

In the early 1980’s I approached then-senator Al D’Amato with the idea of amending the immigration law where the crime of reenter after deportation was concerned.  At the time no considering was given to whether or not an alien who had been previously deported and then reentered the Untied States without permission had a criminal history.  Any alien who illegally reentered the United States, without permission, faced a maximum of 2 years in prison.

Because of limited resources and the relatively paltry penalty for the crime, it was almost impossible to get the U.S. Attorneys to prosecute aliens for that crime.  This meant that there was no deterrence.  Aliens who had been deported from the United States were unlikely to be punished for illegally reentering the United States.  At that time that crime was essentially a “punishmeantless” crime.

I suggested to Senator D’Amato that while two years might be a fitting punishment for aliens who had no criminal histories who had been deported and illegally reentered the United States, aliens who had convictions for serious crimes (aggravated felonies) should face a maximum of 20 years in federal prison.

My efforts were backed up by some of my colleagues at the INS along with Walter Connery who had been the head of the Investigations Branch for the INS in New York and was previously the Deputy Inspector for Internal Affairs for the NYPD before he retired and joined the INS.

Senator D’Amato succeeded in changing the law so that today such aliens face a maximum of 20 years in prison.  That section of law is 8 U.S. Code § 1326(b).

In point of fact, today this felony is the most frequently prosecuted federal felony.

However, when Sanctuary Cities shield felonious aliens from detection by ICE.  Consequently their presence goes undetected and their crimes go unpunished, leaving them free to commit more sociopathic crimes in towns and cities across our nation.  Frequently their victims are the members of the ethnic immigrant communities where these thugs live.

I never thought I was see the day when the victims of criminal aliens, including children, would be thought of as mere “speed bumps” by political “leaders” determined to leave America and Americans defenseless against international terrorists and transnational criminals costing thousands of Americans and others their lives.

We the People must demonstrate true compassion for the innocent victims of these criminal aliens by voting their political guardians out of office.

EDITORS NOTE: This column originally appeared in FrontPage Magazine. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

DANGER ZONES: ICE List of Counties harboring Illegal Aliens includes Alachua County, Florida

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement published the list below of counties that have refused to detain criminal illegal aliens.

ICE Declined Detainer Outcome Report – Jan 28 to Feb 3 2017[1] by JessicaDurando on Scribd

Breitbart’s Ben Kew in his column Trump Publishes 1st List of ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Protecting Illegal Aliens reports:

In an attempt to increase pressure on sanctuary cities, the Department of Homeland Security has published its first weekly list of all 118 localities refusing to cooperate with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Each week, the list will publish every detention request rejected by local jails — detailing the relevant agency, the status of the immigrant, and the charges they are facing.

The first report was published this Monday, listing 206 cases in which illegal aliens were arrested and consequently released from jail without charge, despite recommendations from the Immigration and Crime Enforcement agency (ICE) to detain them for at least 48 hours.

The cases listed took place between January 28th to February 3rd, Donald Trump’s second week in office.

In his executive order signed January 25th designed to properly enforce immigration policy, Trump said regular lists were necessary to better inform the public “regarding the public safety threats associated with sanctuary jurisdictions.”

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Kew notes, “A poll conducted by the University of California Berkeley in January found that in the state of California, where sanctuary cities are particularly prominent, 74 percent would like to see them abolished.”

In our column Forget Sanctuary Cities — Florida has 7 Sanctuary Counties we reported:

Well San Francisco has nothing over the Sunshine State. Florida is home to seven “sanctuary counties.” The sanctuary counties are: Pasco, Hillsborough, Pinellas, Hernando, Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.

These counties are perfectly located along Florida’s East and West coast lines to allow illegal felons, like Francisco Sanchez, to enter with ease.

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Map of sanctuary counties (yellow) and cities (red) in the United States. Map courtesy of the Center for Immigration Studies.

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Sheriff Sadie Darnell

Harboring illegal aliens is wrong and endangers Florida’s citizens. Alachua County is now another danger zone in the Sunshine state.

Alachua County Sheriff Sadie Darnell has a constitutional duty to uphold the laws of the State of Florida and federal laws concerning illegal alien detention. Not to do so is simply wrong.

If Sheriff Darnell can break the law then anyone can.

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EDITORS NOTE: It was San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi who allowed five time deported illegal alien Francisco Sanchez to kill helpless, unsuspecting Kate Steinle.

Obama Administration turning ‘Sanctuary Cities’ into ‘Safe Zones’

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Christian Ziegler

Christian Ziegler, State Committeeman, Sarasota County, in an email writes:

Just when I thought that the Federal Government couldn’t act more ridiculous than allowing “Sanctuary Cities” to harbor law-breakers, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency recently put out a “How To” guide to avoid enforcement by instituting “Safe Zones” for illegal aliens. These “Safe Zones” have been put in place to allow law-breakers the ability to “participate in activities” or “utilize services” in our country “without fear or hesitation”.

Yes, you read that right. Our Federal Government has put out instructions on how to avoid justice for committing a federal crime. The continued encouragement of lawlessness and refusal to hold individuals accountable for their actions by our Federal Government is both concerning and infuriating.

It’s time that we do something about this and it’s just another reason why we must elect Donald Trump and defeat Hillary Clinton in November. Of all of the issues discussed during this election cycle, I believe that the illegal immigration issue is one of the most important issues facing our country. And while Donald Trump has made it clear that we must build a wall and hold illegal aliens accountable for breaking our laws, Hillary Clinton allowed numerous illegal aliens, including one facing a deportation order, to speak during the DNC Convention and made it clear she’s running for Obama’s 3rd term.

Please take a moment to read the article (below) and reply back with any thoughts that you may have on this issue!

U.S. Border Protection Agcy. Advertises SAFE ZONES for Illegal Aliens

Just about any illegal alien can avoid arrest by following these simple rules, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) advertises in a post on its website’s homepage.

Providing a virtual “how-to” guide for illegal aliens in its “Sensitive Locations FAQs,”  CBP explains that immigration laws are not to be enforced at any of a wide range of designated “sensitive locations” – so that illegal aliens may be “free” to live their lives “without fear or hesitation”:

“The policies provide that enforcement actions at or focused on sensitive locations such as schools, places of worship, and hospitals should generally be avoided, and that such actions may only take place when (a) prior approval is obtained from an appropriate supervisory official, or (b) there are exigent circumstances necessitating immediate action without supervisor approval.  The policies are meant to ensure that ICE and CBP officers and agents exercise sound judgment when enforcing federal law at or focused on sensitive locations, to enhance the public understanding and trust, and to ensure that people seeking toparticipate in activities or utilize services provided at any sensitive location are free to do so, without fear or hesitation.”

“This policy is designed to ensure that these enforcement actions do not occurat nor are focused on sensitive locations such as schools and churches” without meeting special exceptions, the ICE Sensitive Locations Policy states.

Locations covered by these policies include, but not be limited to:

  • Schools, such as known and licensed daycares, pre-schools and other early learning programs; primary schools; secondary schools; post-secondary schools up to and including colleges and universities; as well as scholastic or education-related activities or events, and school bus stopsthat are marked and/or known to the officer, during periods when school children are present at the stop;
  • Medical treatment and health care facilities, such as hospitals, doctors’ offices, accredited health clinics, and emergent or urgent care facilities;
  • Places of worship, such as churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples;
  • Religious or civil ceremonies or observances, such as funerals and weddings; and
  • During public demonstration, such as a march, rally, or parade.

So, just almost any illegal alien can escape arrest by either walking with a second person (a march), attending some type of class, or finding a nearby church, medical facility or school bus stop.

“The enforcement actions covered by this policy are (1) arrests; (2) interviews; (3) searches; and (4) for the purposes of immigration enforcement only, surveillance,” the ICE policy says.

Each “FAQ” answer is accompanied by a translation for Spanish-speaking illegal aliens – but, not in any other foreign language.

The CBP website also provides a toll-free number and email address to enable illegal aliens report immigration enforcement efforts taking place at any of the “sensitive locations.”

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Why Liberals are Dangerous and Must Never be in Charge

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Sanctuary cities and counties in the United States.

The Left (liberal mainstream media) practically had a ticker tape parade for Ohio Gov John Kasich for answers he gave on two issues during the GOP debate. Liberals’ praise of Kasich shows they have chosen emotion over logical reasoned thinking. This makes liberals irresponsible and dangerous. These people must never be in charge.

The Left praised Kasich for his entitlement program that is $1.4 billion in the red, thus far – in only 18 months. Kasich defended his program saying it was the Christian thing to do.

First of all, the Bible does not support stupid business practices and irresponsible spending of other people’s money. Proverbs “Have you seen a man who is expert in his business? he will take his place before kings; his place will not be among low persons.”

In 1972 Hurricane Agnes flooded our small black Baltimore suburban community. Dad and my brother rescued residents from the roofs of their homes in a rowboat. As a community leader my dad, Rev. Marcus, assisted residents in acquiring relief checks from the Red Cross. My parents were among those who lost everything in the flood. What if Dad took his family’s relief check and distributed it among needy neighbors? Liberals would praise Dad for his compassion for the poor. The reality is Dad’s behavior, though well-intended, would be irresponsible to my mom and younger siblings living at home. Such common sense adult thinking seems to escape liberals.

Gov Kasich furthering an entitlement program that is void of economic sense is irresponsible to taxpayers, no matter how well-intended. Feelings trump common sense these days in America. Liberals will call me a mean Republican who does not care about people for suggesting that politicians spend responsibly. Most liberals are brain-dead emotion-driven fools.

Kasich’s answer regarding gay marriage was the second issue that won him great praise from liberals. Kasich said while he is a traditional guy, the courts made gay marriage law and he will comply. Kasich added that he attended a friend’s gay wedding because we must love people. I am sorry Gov Kasich and Leftists, but it is absurd to suggest that loving someone means embracing everything they do. Once again, more brain-dead emotion-driven liberal reasoning. Sometimes, love means rejecting a friend or family member’s behavior.

My daughter married a woman. I explained to my daughter why as a Christian, I could not support their union. She understood. We still have a great loving relationship, though we differ when the Patriots play the Broncos. Go Manning!

Here is an interesting observation. Like many youths, a handful of Dad’s adult grand-kids have gone through a rebellious stage; straying from their Christian upbringing like the prodigal son. Each of them hid their sinful behaviors from my dad. They hold Dad’s opinion in high regard with a desire to make him proud. Even my daughter seems to care more about my dad’s opinion of her than mine.

I asked myself, why? Dad is not a tyrant in any way. He is loving and easygoing. So why do the millennials in our family care so much about their granddad’s opinion of them.

The answer is all of their lives, they have witnessed the consistency in Dad’s Christian walk and his commitment to biblical standards. The grand-kids know Dad loves each of them dearly, but is faithful to his commitment to Christ. My daughter and the other grand-kids love Dad greatly and give him their utmost respect.

Perhaps, millennials are looking for trustworthy leaders/politicians who stand for something. GOP presidential contender Senator Ted Cruz comes to mind. Too many wimpy baby-boomers embrace every Leftist anti-Christian and anti-American socialist/progressive agenda item; desiring to be thought of as modern and enlightened.

People in positions of power who place feelings above common sense, responsibility and reasoned thinking are dangerous. They (liberals) must never be in charge.

Take sanctuary cities. These are liberal governed US cities that have officially decided to disobey federal law by sheltering illegal aliens.

Liberalism has been described as a “mental disease.” For whatever reasons, liberals who run sanctuary cities feel it is unfair that we in America have so much. Consequently, they roll out the red carpet to illegals; gifting them welfare, college tuition and benefits unavailable to legal American citizens.

Years ago, a businessman friend moved to California. He made more money than ever. And yet, he had to move back to the east coast because the cost of living was too high. Amazingly, my friend said if he was an illegal alien, he and his family could have survived just fine in California. Does that make sense? Of course not. I wrote a satirical song about his experience titled, “Can’t Afford the Sunshine.”

Talk about crazy brain-dead thinking – even with epidemic high numbers of murders, rapes and assaults on Americans by repeat criminal illegals, nothing seems to soften sanctuary cities’ commitment to welcome and protect illegals. Wacko liberals in charge are dangerous, folks.

Liberals wrongfully get high marks for compassion. The truth is real compassionate leadership makes wise responsible decisions. Liberals define a compassionate nation as how long that line is of people showing up for their daily allotment of free fish. In America today, 94 million Americans are unemployed. And yet, they have all the necessities and many of the luxuries of working Americans. Forty-seven million Americans are on food stamps. Millions of capable Americans are receiving disability. 

Conservatives define compassion as liberating citizens from government. Government handouts are always accompanied with government dictates and controls. There “ain’t” no free lunch.

Conservative government says we will gladly give you fish for the short term. However, our greater goal is to help you experience the dignity, pride and independence of catching your own fish. We will get rid of the overreaching government controls on catching fish and help you acquire a fishing rod.

Who do you want running the show (your county) folks – brain-dead emotion-driven liberals or adult conservatives?

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Sanctuary Criminals and a Feckless Congress

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Sanctuary cities that protect illegals who are felons are criminal enterprises and should be treated as such.