Sanctuary cities are sanctuaries for criminals

Washington Examiner ^ | January 30, 2026 8:32 pm | Byron York

[E. Pluribus Unum]

In recent days, it has become clear that the Battle of Minneapolis is, at its core, a battle over the continued existence of sanctuary cities. 

During the 2024 presidential campaign, President Donald Trump promised to pursue “the worst of the worst” of illegal immigrants. As of September 30, 2024, Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported that there were 1,426,932 people who were in the country illegally and who had received a final order of deportation from an immigration judge. Many Trump supporters thought those people were the best place for Trump to begin a ramp-up of federal immigration law enforcement. After all, they have already gotten full legal due process — and an order to go.

Then there are the illegal immigrants who are jailed for various offenses, who, when they are released, could be subject to deportation proceedings on the basis of their crimes. That is where a key part of the sanctuary city practice comes in. When an illegal immigrant criminal is released, officials should notify ICE, which can then pick up the criminal in an orderly way. But sanctuary city laws forbid officials from notifying ICE, so if ICE wants to find the newly-freed criminal, it will have to do so on its own. That can lead to the kind of difficult operations in neighborhoods that have been the focus of protests in Minneapolis.

Minnesota state officials have pointed out that the state Department of Corrections actually cooperates with ICE. “Minnesota DOC honors ICE detainers and coordinates custody transfers every day,” the Department said in a statement.

But that’s just part of the story; a New York Times analysis found a “complicated picture” in Minnesota. “About 30% of the people ICE detained in Minnesota last year were turned...”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; crime; criminals; harboring; hideout; insurrection; rebellion; sanctuarycities

[thinden]

Sanctuary cities are sanctuaries for criminals

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Sanctuary cities are sanctuaries for illegal migrants voting for dems

[Steely Tom]

Sanctuaries from federal laws.

[frank ballenger]

We all thought if WE followed the laws and remained sweet natured and accepting of this, it would ——somehow——work out well.

It didn’t.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Great point. 100% correct. The far left commies want all criminals out on the streets to murder all the Americans who won’t goose step.

[pierrem15]

Sanctuaries for criminals by criminals.

It's not just Dems not cooperating with Federal immigration authorities: they are giving illegals drivers licensees and id's and registering them to vote and either having them vote or using their registrations to stuff ballots. They do the same with blacks who mainly don't vote. That's why "motor voter" was a disaster, because it provides a huge pool of non-voters with which corrupt Dem cities can stuff ballots.

In addition, the Dems are illegally providing them with welfare benefits like Medicaid, SNAP, and state programs funded by Federal dollars. The states administer these programs, and they have every interest in showering illegals with Federal money.

So it's not just thumbing their nose at immigration law: they're engaged in a systematic pattern of law-breaking all designed to turn cities, states and eventually the whole US into a corrupt, fascistic, Dem one-party state. Trump needs to declare these places to be in insurrection because the problem isn't just the illegals, it's the Democratic Party which needs to be suppressed as a criminal organization.

[missnry]

We need to stop using their language to define these cities. They are LAWLESS cities! Sanctuary doesn’t cut it. They have set their boundaries of lawlessness. Their goal is to render federal law unenforceable. Why use their language? Start calling the media and their cohorts in the media out on this.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Every American who plans on living a life of freedom from crime and one of relative economic prosperity had better get to their polling locations later this year and in 2027 because the ‘rats are in partnership with the globalists, illegal aliens, Communist anarchists, and Russia, and China, and are DEDICATED to the destruction of this country. Ignore this warning and you will suffer consequences that you never dreamed possible.

[Texan4Life]

Mark Levin dishing out inconvenient truths about illegal immigration and representation seats in Congress - Jan. 31, 2026. . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9aD0NVn04Q