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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Texas Could Be the First State to Ban Sanctuary Cities Under Trump
How Texas Could Be the First State to Ban Sanctuary Cities Under TrumpBill being rushed through the legislature would require police to cooperate with federal immigration authorities
By Meredith Hoffman
To the horror of immigrant communities around Texas, SB 4 is rushing through the legislature with widespread political support and could be the first and most extreme anti-sanctuary bill to pass under President Trump. Trump's January executive order, pledging to strip federal funds from sanctuaries, has not yet been enacted, but he has emboldened 25 states to propose similar legislation.
"On a practical level, it is unclear whether and how the federal government will cut funding to sanctuaries, but on a political level the order has certainly given wind to these states' measures," says Faye Hipsman, policy analyst with the Migration Policy Institute's U.S. Immigration Program. "The Texas bill is the most high-profile and likely most far-reaching."
Under SB 4, police must enforce immigration laws and honor all Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers, or requests to hand over individuals for possible deportation. If a police force refuses to comply, Texas would deprive the local government of all its state funding.
The bill would also allow the state to prosecute police chiefs and sheriffs of sanctuary jurisdictions for a new crime, failure to enforce immigration laws, for which they could spend up to a year in jail. And if police release an inmate with an immigration detainer, the county could be sued for any crime that individual commits over the next decade.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/texas-could-be-first-state-to-ban-sanctuary-cities-under-trump-w472605
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How Texas Could Be the First State to Ban Sanctuary Cities Under Trump (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Mar 2017
OP
Yes... compassion and mercy will be outlawed by the fascist white power republican party
workinclasszero
Mar 2017
#2
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)1. They dont want those good people in Austin to do the right thing,
their hate is so strong it makes them ill to think of someone doing the right thing.
country is in bad bad shape, really bad, really really bad.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)2. Yes... compassion and mercy will be outlawed by the fascist white power republican party
How much longer will this evil stand?