President\nDonald Trump delayed immigration enforcement actions set to begin over the\nweekend, saying he will give Congress two weeks to fix loophole-ridden asylum\nlaws before ramping up deportations in America’s largest cities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With chances of congressional action rated somewhere between slim and none, defiant sanctuary city officials<\/a> say they are more determined than ever to freeze out U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “[The Chicago Police Department]\nwill not cooperate with or facilitate any ICE enforcement,” declared newly\nelected Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot. “I have directed and Superintendent\n[Eddie] Johnson has confirmed that CPD has terminated ICE’s access to CPD’s\ndatabases related to federal immigration enforcement activities.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti,\nsaid his city \u201cwill always stand with our immigrant brothers and sisters, and\nour law enforcement officers will never participate in these actions. No\nAngeleno [sic]should ever have to fear being snatched from their home or\nseparated from their loved ones, and we are doing everything we can to provide\nimmigrant families with the information and support.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Office of Immigrant Affairs in New York tweeted a link informing migrants of their “rights,” and in Houston the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas<\/a> (a state with an anti-sanctuary law) advised illegal aliens not to answer if ICE agents come knocking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat would be one of the\nbiggest mistakes one could make. Opening the door allows the agent to pursue\nthe person they\u2019re seeking and both question anyone in the house and search\nanything in the house,” counseled senior staff attorney Edgar\nSaldivar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While doing nothing to stanch the surge of illegal crossings at the southern border, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/a>, D-Calif., joined in the political grandstanding, decrying ICE enforcement as “brutal\u00a0action which will tear families apart and inject terror into our communities.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n In fact, the\u00a0Obama administration<\/a> carried out just such actions against illegal alien families in Georgia, Texas, and North Carolina in late 2016.\u00a0Since then, deportations have slipped, and 100 percent<\/a> of migrant family units crossing the border are being released daily into the U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pelosi’s rhetoric aside, Congress designed immigration law with assistance from state and local law enforcement in mind.\u00a0As FAIR has detailed<\/a>,\u00a0local and state cooperation with federal immigration authorities promotes public safety, is essential to thwarting national security threats and saves taxpayers money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Obstructionist politicians\nachieve none of the above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Donald Trump delayed immigration enforcement actions set to begin over the weekend, saying he will give Congress two weeks to fix loophole-ridden asylum laws before ramping up deportations in America’s largest cities. With chances of congressional action rated somewhere between slim and none, defiant sanctuary city officials say they are more determined than ever<\/p>\n