Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva announced last week his agency will no longer transfer alien inmates from Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) jails to U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. The new policy now requires…
sanctuary city policy
In the past ten years, several states have passed legislation trying to clamp down on dangerous sanctuary policies at the local level, with mixed success. Florida’s 2019 anti-sanctuary law, Senate Bill (SB) 168, is one of the most recent, but som…
House Democrats unveiled their $2.5 trillion stimulus bill late on March 23, setting their terms for the stimulus package intended to rescue the economy from the fallout of Covid-19. The text eclipses 1,400 pages and the section-by-section summary alon…
Chicago officials are not backing down in the face of criticism from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials after a Mexican national was released from jail and subsequently re-arrested for molesting a 3-year-old child shortly after he was …
The Orange County Register recently featured an opinion piece claiming that the Trump administration’s “immigration raids” in sanctuary cities raise “age-old states’ rights issues.” According to the piece’s author, the Tenth Amendment to the Constituti…
(The fourth in an on-going series of articles from a police officer actively serving in a sanctuary county outside Washington, D.C.) There is an issue at the heart of the illegal immigration debate that I don’t believe receives nearly the attention it …