Senate Bill 4, which goes into effect on September 1, punishes cities, counties, elected officials and campuses that don’t collaborate with federal immigration enforcement. It also makes it a criminal offense for police chiefs or sheriffs to violate the ban.
Fair Punishment Project’s Jessica Brand: “If mayors truly want to protect immigrants from deportation, they need to act swiftly to end harmful criminal justice practices that criminalize poverty.”
The protests emerged in response to Donald Trump’s committment to cutting federal funding to sanctuary cities and deporting millions of undocumented immigrants.
In the shadow of Donald Trump’s pledge to deport millions of undocumented immigrants and crack down on sanctuary cities, students at schools across the country are planning walk-outs and other actions to demand their campuses remain safe for undocumented people.
Under order from new mayor Jim Kenney, Philadelphia will once again halt most collaboration between local police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi—who faced tremendous criticism for his Sanctuary City policy and previous domestic violence convictions—was defeated in yesterday’s election.
The mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts, went after GOP candidate Jindal over the comments he made saying that mayors of sanctuary cities should be imprisoned.
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