AT A press conference two days after Donald Trump was elected president, Bill de Blasio, New York’s mayor, sought to assuage the fears of his city’s undocumented residents. “We are not going to sacrifice a half-million people who live amongst us, who are part of our communities, whose family members and loved ones happen to be people in many cases who are either permanent residents or citizens—we're not going to tear families apart.”
During his campaign, Mr Trump vowed to deport millions of undocumented immigrants from America. The leaders of New York and several other “sanctuary” cities such as Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco insist they will resist any such dragnet.

What is a sanctuary city?

There is no specific legal definition for what constitutes a sanctuary jurisdiction but the term is widely used to refer to American cities, counties or states that protect undocumented immigrants from deportation by limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Some decline to use city or state tax dollars to enforce federal immigration laws.


What are your thoughts on how this Admin will deal with them.

If Jeff Sessions is confirmed (likely) he is supposed enforce the letter of the law.


if an undocumented immigrant is stopped by a police officer for a traffic violation, police officers in sanctuary cities do not take that opportunity to take the individual into custody and contact ICE. ????????