What I don't understand (and I really, really don't understand this) is why these mayors, governors, and other officials who are implementing "Sanctuary" policies are not arrested for violating Federal law?
Because what they are doing is against the law.
https://www.justice.gov/jm/criminal-resource-manual-1907-title-8-usc-1324a-offenses
Why is it impossible to enforce that law? A "better" solution is for the Feds to start aiding these illegal invaders and flying them to selected cities and states? The illegals can then simply get in a car and be in your neighborhood in a few hours after the Feds spent money to fly them there.
From the article:
Flights chartered by ICE cost about $7,785 per flight hour, according to the agency, and require multiple staffers, including an in-flight medical professional. The agency also uses commercial flights. Doing longer transports would increase liability for the agency, especially considering that many of the immigrants in its care are families with young children.
Because it is a federal law and up to the federal government to enforce it. States cannot be required to enforce federal law for the federal government. The Supreme Court decided that back in the 1850's.
Flooding these “sanctuary cities” with the swarm of “immigrants” is the perhaps most appropriate action to take against these “enlightened” scofflaws who are otherwise unmoved by appeals to their better selves and common good sense.
When it is finally hammered home to them that the “new people” are NOT universally good and hard-working people seeking only a better life, this may awaken in these virtue-signaling city fathers some sense of responsibility and yes, guilt, whereupon they will finally be persuaded to to the right thing, and renounce their doctrinaire demands America should “accept” the new normal.