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Sanctuary Cities Actually Make Us Safer (Obama Logic)
Hartford Courant ^ | 08/04/2015 | RAUL A. REYES

Posted on 08/06/2015 4:25:15 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

--snip-- "Sanctuary cities" is a misleading label that has caused a great deal of confusion. The term is a misnomer for those cities and towns that prefer that the federal government handle immigration enforcement. It is wrong to attack sanctuary cities: Their policies actually help make our cities and towns safer.

A sanctuary city is a city that has decided to leave immigration enforcement to the federal government so that its own police force can concentrate on fighting crime. That's hardly a radical idea; it is a principle that the Supreme Court affirmed in Arizona v. U.S. (2012), which found that only the federal government had authority over immigration enforcement.

(Excerpt) Read more at courant.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegalimmigration; immigration; kathrynsteinle; sanctuarycities
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Another graduate from the Obama school of logic. Not enforcing laws make us safer. Just like making a nuclear deal with Iran will protect us.
Is the author really this dumb or is he just a liar? Arizona wanted to enforce immigration laws because the feds would not.

1 posted on 08/06/2015 4:25:15 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

I stopped reading when he lied about the definition of a sanctuary city.


2 posted on 08/06/2015 4:31:30 PM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: Kid Shelleen

In all this brouhaha I have never quite seen anyone define quite what makes a “sanctuary city” into such a thing and how those things are illegal. Closest to it I have seen is some locales require a warrant to transfer a prisoner to the Federal Government. There must be something sinister about this, but I am not catching it. Is it impossible or impractical to generate such warrants?

What does the Federal Government have the authority to tell a state to do and how does that come into play here? Slinging around accusations of “traitor” does nothing to illuminate these issues. Remember that the principle that floated your boat today might torpedo it tomorrow.


3 posted on 08/06/2015 4:37:19 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

The authors name is RAUL A. REYES. That being the case it’s almost a given that he would defend sanctuary cities.


4 posted on 08/06/2015 4:40:18 PM PDT by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Unless you live in one.


5 posted on 08/06/2015 4:42:24 PM PDT by scottinoc
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I’m OK with “sanctuary cities” as long as they are the new name for jails and prisons for these felon invaders. The writer of this piece is a real dimwit dope.


6 posted on 08/06/2015 4:43:58 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Sanctuary Cities Actually Make Us Safer


If you believe that... you’ve messed up you’re on the Wrong website...


7 posted on 08/06/2015 4:46:05 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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Sanctuary mansions would make us even safer. Lets bus them all into the rich liberals’ neighborhoods.


8 posted on 08/06/2015 4:49:28 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Yep, just like disarming the law abiding will make us safer from criminals.


9 posted on 08/06/2015 4:52:13 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

It gets the bad guys to go to one place, I wish that was so, it isn’t.


10 posted on 08/06/2015 4:55:53 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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So...it’s OK now to have cities that exempt themselves from Federal law?

How ‘bout an NFA-free city?

Show up at the range with a Mk-19 or something? No problem! You just can’t take it out of town.


11 posted on 08/06/2015 5:03:47 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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Any racism involved in this “opinion” of Raul here?

Wonder if he’d feel the same of the majority of illegals were black or Anglos?

But they’re NEVER called out, are they?


12 posted on 08/06/2015 5:09:23 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (De-fund ALL "Sanctuary Cities" And remove the idiots in charge of them.)
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A sanctuary city is a city that has decided to leave immigration enforcement to the federal government so that its own police force can concentrate on fighting crime.

Being an illegal alien is a crime along with the crimes many of the commit here.


13 posted on 08/06/2015 5:16:53 PM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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S AVE O UR S ITE


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without you.



14 posted on 08/06/2015 5:33:23 PM PDT by RedMDer (Support Free Republic and Keep FReedom ALIVE!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Sanctuary Cities Actually Make Us Safer

and the Atlantic Ocean is made out of grapefruit juice.


15 posted on 08/06/2015 5:37:51 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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Hartford just had its 17th murder and is calling for govt help.

Wonder who the perps are? Some of Reyes’ pendejos? For a third generation Mexican American, he sure is dumb.

I remember when it was safe to walk the streets of Bridgeport, Ct, or any other city in that once great state.

Some people are just stuck on stupid for life.


16 posted on 08/06/2015 5:43:15 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

I love the state of CT. Just beautiful! Sadly it’s infested with Progressive psycho nitwits.


17 posted on 08/06/2015 5:48:41 PM PDT by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Bump


18 posted on 08/06/2015 5:49:14 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Kid Shelleen

If many cities and even whole states have been allowed to ignore immigration law wholesale and still get federal funding, it is fair to say that other areas can ignore same sex marriage mandates which have even lower public support.


19 posted on 08/06/2015 6:06:53 PM PDT by tbw2
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You’ve got a red Rep. Laura del Rosa who is buddy buddy with Joelle Fishman the head of the Communist Party of Connecticut.

You’ll find a lot of information on both at the database site www.keywiki.org. Enter either name in the SEARCH box and hit Search. Photos and other goodies. Just an example of how a small communist/leftist cadre can takeover a major city, if not the whole state.

Rhode Island is almost as bad. Their political leaders, like those of Conn. are batshit leftist crazies. Massachusetts is Red Central for New England, esp. in the universities, while Vermont has always been a Marxist state since the Lee Webbs, John Froines and Dave Dellingers and company moved their and took it over in the 1970’s, according to their announced plans.

New Hampshire (originally types in error New Hampshite), has degenerated to the point of leftist cesspool. I used to write for the Manchester Union Leader under the wonderful leadership of the late Bill Loeb. Today the MUL is a joke and the Left seem to run the state.

What we need up there is another American Revolution with a massive housecleaning, and I don’t particularly care how it is done.

The New Hampshire state slogan of “Live Free or Die” is now “You’ll Live the way we want you to, and if you don’t, we’ll tax you to death to see that you do”.


20 posted on 08/06/2015 6:17:19 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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