pull funding from 'sanctuary cities'


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These states and cities do not honor any request from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.
No one can get deported if they do not have any papers to be here.
No one can stop you and ask you of any papers UNLESS YOU COMMIT A CRIMINAL OFFENSE THAT LANDS YOU IN COURT SYTEM

All these sanctuary cities voted against TRUMP


A SANCTUARY STATE
Sanctuary has no meaning, legally speaking, and definitions vary across sanctuary communities.
Generally, though, the term refers to cities and counties that limit how much local law enforcement will cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. Nationwide, more than 300 counties and 39 cities have adopted some version of sanctuary, according to the Immigrant Legal Resource Center.
California is, by far, the leader in the movement. In fact, though it hasn’t formally declared itself as such, the state is, in essence, a sanctuary.Under a 2014 law known as the TRUST Act, local jails in California are barred from detaining undocumented non-felons simply because ICE agents are asking.
All 58 counties in California and most of the state’s police departments also decline to honor any ICE requests to hold immigrants beyond their jail sentences, reflecting a series of federal court rulings that found local jurisdictions liable for holding people after their release dates.
California’s policies “make it harder for ICE to do its job,” said Jessica Vaughan, policy studies director at the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington-based think tank that favors immigration restrictions.
That’s certainly been the case during the last two years of the Obama administration. Federal data obtained by the Texas Tribune shows California declined so-called “detainer requests” from ICE at five times the rate of the next least cooperative state, New York, during an 18-month period that started in early 2014.
But if Trump is to follow through with his pledge to deport at least a few million people, that will have to change, in California and elsewhere. There are only about 5,000 ICE agents, nationally, and any national deportation program will need the help – and man hours – from local police departments.
“What Trump wants to do is create a criminal justice pipeline into the federal immigration system,” said UC Davis Law School Dean Kevin Johnson, an expert in immigration law.
“It’s politically popular to do so and it’s relatively easy to do so. That’s why the federal government is really pushing hard to get as much cooperation as possible.”
In the wake of Trump’s election, many California politicians are pledging to uphold the state’s sanctuary policies, even in the face of federal threats. A showdown seems possible.
But that’s only part of the story.
SANCTUARY HAS LIMITS
Most communities – including some sanctuary cites like Los Angeles and Santa Ana – still cooperate with federal immigration agencies, a fact that frustrates some immigration advocates.
“A statement of sanctuary is important in a lot of ways for communicating a general attitude, but the underlying policies obviously still matter,” said Lena Graber, a San Francisco-based attorney for the Immigrant Legal Resource Center.
“There are all kinds of formal and informal partnerships that ICE has with local governments to help identify and pick people up,” she added.
“Just saying you’re a sanctuary doesn’t mean anything unless you actually go and undo those policies,” she added.
In San Bernardino County, for example, the sheriff’s department allows immigration agents to interview detainees at jail facilities.
In Riverside, where Police Chief Sergio Diaz has insisted his agency won’t be involved in any mass deportations, the sheriff’s department continues to notify ICE when inmates are scheduled to be released, and works with the federal agency on several joint enforcement operations.
In Orange County, ties between the sheriff’s department and ICE are extensive, a result of a partnership that authorizes county sheriff deputies to interview and process immigrant detainees for removal. This year, Orange County deputies also began serving warrants and detainer requests on behalf of ICE, according to OCSD spokesperson Lt. Mark Stichter.
Three Orange County jails – Theo Lacey, James A. Musick, and Santa Ana City Jail – also provide detention facilities for ICE to house undocumented immigrants, although the Santa Ana city council has voted to phase out its contract.
In Los Angeles, one of the first U.S. cities to adopt a sanctuary policy, the county sheriff’s department gives ICE broad access to jails and databases, and allows immigration officials to interview all inmates suspected of being in the country illegally. And three other cities in L.A. County – Pomona, Alhambra and Glendale – contract with ICE to keep immigrant detainees in their jails for limited periods.
Vaughan predicts that once the Trump administration takes control in Washington, California counties will expand their ICE partnerships rather than risk the loss of federal funding. Such cuts could cost California $70.6 million, according to the National Immigrant Law Center.
“If sheriffs start losing money, I think you could start to see a pushback,” Vaughan said.
THE LOOK OF RESISTANCE
Immigration advocates want state and local governments to push hard against deportation efforts in the coming Trump presidency.
In Sacramento, Democratic lawmakers recently introduced a bill that would prohibit any law enforcement agency, including school police, from using its resources for immigration enforcement.
Leaders of the state’s two university systems also recently issued public declarations that they will not cooperate with mass deportations.
And in places such as Los Angeles and Santa Ana, where local leaders have already promised to resist Trump, activists are calling on city officials to cut all ties with ICE.
“Symbolically saying that you reaffirm sanctuary, absent a good policy, is wholly inadequate,” said Salvador Sarmiento, a campaign coordinator for the National Day Laborers Organizing Network in Los Angeles.
“A city that has ICE in its jail can’t turn around and say it’s a friend to immigrants.”
But while sanctuary cities might be able to limit their role in immigration enforcement, it’s unlikely that they will be able to cut off the deportation pipeline entirely.
UC Davis’ Johnson said: “An administration that is really devoted to removals is going to have a lot of tools at its disposal.”

Contact the writer: gwyler@scng.com
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/sanctuary-738673-ice-immigration.html



President Trump to build wall on U.S.-Mexico border, pull funding from 'sanctuary cities'[size=8pt][/size]

The first plank in President Donald Trump’s border wall is made of paper in the form of an executive order he signed today.
Trump signed the action entitled “Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements,” allowing the use of federal funds to begin construction on the wall and add 5,000 border patrol agents.
“We’re in the middle of a crisis on our Southern border,” Trump said Wednesday. “A nation without borders is not a nation.”
Trump said the wall will “save thousands of lives, millions of jobs and billions of dollars.” He said he has a “deep admiration” for the Mexican people, and the wall will help Mexico as well.
“I think our relationship with Mexico is going to get better,” Trump said.
Trump also signed a second executive order blocking federal funding for so-called sanctuary cities, defined as jurisdictions that decline to cooperate fully with federal immigration enforcement agencies.
Several California cities, including San Francisco, Los Angeles and Santa Ana, have sanctuary policies in place, and the state has placed restrictions that make it difficult for county jails to turn over illegal immigrants to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials. Regionally, federal money is used for homeless shelters, health care and victim’s assistance for those injured in the 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino.
The president signed the two orders Wednesday during a ceremony at the Department of Homeland Security after honoring the department’s newly confirmed secretary, retired Gen. John Kelly.
The executive orders jumpstart construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall, one of his signature campaign promises, and strip funding for so-called sanctuary cities, which don’t arrest or detain immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.
“It’s a common sense first step,” said the president’s spokesman Sean Spicer.
The signings come as Trump prepared to meet with Mexico’s foreign minister, Luis Videgaray, who is in Washington D.C. to plan for the arrival of Mexican President Enrique Pena Neito. The Mexican president is expected to meet with Trump within a week.
The controversial wall proposal was one of the foundations of Trump’s presidential campaign. He said in numerous campaign appearances that the wall would be more than just a fence and that it would have a “beautiful door.” The cost, design and precise location of the 2,000-mile wall is still undetermined. Trump said the wall will help stop people and drugs from crossing the southern border of the United States.
The order did not mention Trump’s campaign promise that Mexico would pay for the wall.
Questions remain about Trump’s ability to block funding for sanctuary cities. Legal experts say that it is unlikely he will be able to block all federal cash, although he may be able to block jurisdictions from receiving certain Department of Justice grants, an option that the agency is already in the process of exploring.
There was great confusion on Capitol Hill Wednesday about precisely what the president's actions will mean to California. Is the entire state considered a sanctuary in Trump's view? Or just self-proclaimed "sanctuary cities" like Los Angeles, Santa Ana and San Francisco?
And just how many billions of dollars are at stake? Los Angeles gets about a half-billion dollars a year from the federal government; Santa Ana gets about $123 million.
"I don’t think there is any clarity yet. To be honest, I am not sure if the Trump administration has fully flushed out what the effects of this could be," said Alex Nguyen, spokesman for Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Whittier.
Several Republican lawmakers applauded the move.
“President Trump is making good on the promises he made to the American people to secure our borders, deport criminal illegal immigrants, and put the security and sovereignty of our country first," said Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Corona, in a statement. "I commend his actions and fully support him. If California cities and counties want to harbor criminal illegal immigrants, they are soon going to realize that their negligence towards public safety is now going to come with a very high price tag.”
Democrats like Sanchez, however, were aghast.
“America is and always will be a nation of immigrants and refugees," she said in a statement. "The story of our country is of people from all over the world who came here in search of‎ a better life. The anti-immigrant executive orders signed today by President Trump run counter to the best values and traditions of our country. The United States is the shining light of freedom, liberty, and prosperity to the world. We welcome all who are willing to work hard to achieve their American dream. A wall is the exact opposite of what America stands for."
It also remains to be seen how far Trump will go with his immigration actions, including how he will handle the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which has provided deportation relief to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought into the country as children.
During the campaign, Trump said that he would end the program, as part of a broader plan to rescind Obama’s executive actions on immigration. But he has since waffled on the issue, and administration officials suggested that this week’s planned actions on immigration will not include any measures dealing with DACA.

Teri Sforza contributed to this story
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/trump-742152-wall-border.html

Aint pro nor anti trump but i hope he doesn't burn his skin with his own hands.