Post by The Big Dog on Sept 1, 2008 23:39:48 GMT -5
Do I think that Senator McCain would really follow the platform if elected, given his past record?
I can hope he would though...
I can hope he would though...
GOP platform targets sanctuary cities
Debra J. Saunders
Monday, September 1, 2008
(09-01) 04:00 PDT Minneapolis-St. Paul -- Pay attention, San Francisco and other self-proclaimed "sanctuary cities." The draft of 2008 Republican Platform wants cities that flout federal immigration law to pay a price - pocketing fewer federal dollars - for their sanctuary politics.
"The rule of law means guaranteeing to law enforcement the tools and coordination to deport criminal aliens without delay," the draft explains. And: "It means requiring cooperation among federal, state and local law enforcement and real consequences, including the denial of federal funds, for self-described sanctuary cities, which stand in open defiance of the federal and state statutes that expressly prohibit such sanctuary policies, and which endanger the lives of U.S. citizens." (My italics.)
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It turns out that Minneapolis and St. Paul are sanctuary cities. Some American cities passed sanctuary laws for benign reasons - to signal to illegal immigrants that they could report crimes to police and send their children to school - that is to protect otherwise law-abiding illegal immigrants. It took a city with the loony politics of San Francisco to turn that goal into a get-out-of-jail free card, not for hard-working families, but for savvy drug dealers and brazen convicted felons.
Debra J. Saunders
Monday, September 1, 2008
(09-01) 04:00 PDT Minneapolis-St. Paul -- Pay attention, San Francisco and other self-proclaimed "sanctuary cities." The draft of 2008 Republican Platform wants cities that flout federal immigration law to pay a price - pocketing fewer federal dollars - for their sanctuary politics.
"The rule of law means guaranteeing to law enforcement the tools and coordination to deport criminal aliens without delay," the draft explains. And: "It means requiring cooperation among federal, state and local law enforcement and real consequences, including the denial of federal funds, for self-described sanctuary cities, which stand in open defiance of the federal and state statutes that expressly prohibit such sanctuary policies, and which endanger the lives of U.S. citizens." (My italics.)
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It turns out that Minneapolis and St. Paul are sanctuary cities. Some American cities passed sanctuary laws for benign reasons - to signal to illegal immigrants that they could report crimes to police and send their children to school - that is to protect otherwise law-abiding illegal immigrants. It took a city with the loony politics of San Francisco to turn that goal into a get-out-of-jail free card, not for hard-working families, but for savvy drug dealers and brazen convicted felons.
