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"We
have to end this sanctuary cities crap FAST!" says Donald Trump, the billionaire
seeking the Republican Party's presidential nomination.
Trump, who rarely
misses an opportunity to inveigh against both legal and illegal immigrants, has
been joined in his condemnation of "sanctuary cities" by many of his GOP
rivals.
Sanctuary cities—there are more than 200 across the United
States—instruct local law enforcement officials to not investigate the
immigration status of suspects or prisoners in their custody. The thinking is
that such restraint will make victims and witnesses more likely to help police.
Again and again, Trump points to the murder of Kate Steinle in San
Francisco by an illegal immigrant from Mexico to prove his point that sanctuary
cities are out of control, dangerous, and lawless. Starting in the late 1980s,
elected officials in San Francisco and other cities changed police protocols in
a bid to increase cooperation with local residents, many of whom might have
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