Donald Trump tried to punish sanctuary cities. Its backfiring.

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4. Two things Drumpf. 10th Ammendment. And Jurisdiction.

First, being in the U.S. as an undocumented person is currently a Federal issue, not a necessarily a state or local issue.
Local police don't have the time, manpower, resources, or budget to do the Feds work. They can pick up undocumented people if those people break the law, and put them in jail if they commit a criminal act, but they can't go out hunting undocumented people, nor can they handle holding them simply because they are undocumented if the infraction isn't serious enough to warrant holding or incarceration.

Simple fact.

Putting on a program analyst hat - if the Feds are serious about criminalizing people who do not carry legal citizenship papers or Visas, and they want local police to be a component of ICE or Border Patrol, then the Feds should to pay big time to add local police liaisons at local stations for each shift, and hire more police, lawyers/prosecutors, investigators, holding cells, and basic services - all under a Federal policing agency (because, again - Jurisdiction) to hold undocumented that might be ticketed or arrested by the actual local police and to be able to process those people without over-burdening the local courts system.

That means there's probably close to another couple - ten, maybe fifty Billion that will need to be added to the Federal budget a year. A responsible government will raise taxes to cover such a program, or severely penalize all employers of undocumented workers - from large corporations who use "agents" to hire cheap crews under the table, to any private citizen who hire someone off a hand-scrawled bulletin board post-it note or outside hardware box stores. Of course, with Tax Cuts being the mantra of the current Congress and Administration and a hands-off attitude to business practices, we'll just get more deficit spending to hire more brownshirts to take care of anyone who doesn't look like an "Amurikkan".

The "Fiscally Responsible" GOP - looking out for future generations saddled with debt.


Haele