In March, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Kansas v. Garcia. This ruling may be one of most significant on the states’ role in enforcing America’s immigration laws in nearly a decade. Instead of tying the states’ hands like previous …
sanctuary policy
Two days before the Maryland Legislature was set to adjourn early because of the coronavirus pandemic, 50 faith-based organizations and places of worship sent a letter to Maryland’s House and Senate leadership urging them to pass sanctuary legislation …
Rockingham County, North Carolina Sheriff Sam Page has been at the vanguard of local officials striving to enforce our immigration laws since he was first elected in 1998. Now he’s highlighting the right path for the Tar Heel State and the rest o…
At a time when an alarming number of cities and counties proclaim themselves “sanctuaries” for illegal aliens, one large county has opted to buck that trend and – to a certain extent – comply with federal law. San Diego County, California, home to more…
While sanctuary laws jeopardize lives from coast to coast — and risk new federal sanctions for enabling illegal aliens to walk free — Texas has gone a different way. At least on paper. With enactment of Senate Bill 4 in 2017, Texas became t…
Of the many voices weighing in on the deployment of an estimated 100 specially-trained Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers to cities nationwide, there was one voice that directly addressed the real consequences and costs of sanctuary cities. S…
Attorney General William Barr gave notice on Monday that the Justice Department would be taking a set actions which “represent significant escalation” of existing efforts “to confront the resistance” of jurisdictions that limit cooperation with Immigra…
President Donald Trump, highlighting the disastrous and deadly effects of sanctuary policies, got more ammunition from a California sheriff the day after his State of the Union address. Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes reported that one in four crimina…
Sanctuary city politicians often rely on tortured reasoning in order to defend placing the comfort of immigrants, regardless of status or criminal history, ahead of public safety. But Philadelphia’s Office of Immigration Affairs statement that its “pol…
Since President Trump first took office in 2017, the number of sanctuary jurisdictions has grown exponentially. There were 338 sanctuary jurisdictions when President Obama left office just three years ago. Now there are more than 500 cities, states, a…