Thread: Louisiana attorney general: Crime is up in 'sanctuary cities'

By KELLY COHEN • 9/27/16 11:57 AM

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Louisiana's chief legal officer said Tuesday that crime has increased in so-called "sanctuary cities" that pledge not to pursue or prosecute illegal immigrants.

In prepared remarks to the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said sanctuary city policies "allow illegals to commit crimes, then roam free in our communities."

The remarks came in a hearing on New Orleans, and how the city has become a "sanctuary city" following new policies that went into effect on Feb. 28 that forbid city police from inquiring into an individual's immigration status. Those policies were written by the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division following a request in 2010 by Mayor Mitch Landrieu for the agency to help reform the city's police department.

Landry, a former House member, cited recent statistics from Los Angeles, another sanctuary city, to show that crime jumps in these jurisdictions.

"[L]os Angeles saw all crime rise in 2015: violent crime up 19.9 percent, homicides up 10.2 percent, shooting victims up 12.6 percent, rapes up 8.6 percent, robberies up 12.3 percent, and aggravated assault up 27.5 percent," Landry said.

Landry added that sanctuary cities "encourage further illegal immigration and promote an underground economy that sabotages the tax base."

In the "sanctuary city" policies in New Orleans, police officers are unable to communicate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and are forbidden to share knowledge of someone being an illegal immigrant with anyone. The Department of Justice's inspector general recently said the policy is in violation of federal law — something the DOJ itself allows to continue.

During opening remarks, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., called the DOJ's push for New Orleans police to enforce sanctuary city policies "an effort to futher their political agenda."

Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., echoed those comments, saying the policies have "resulted in thousands of criminal aliens being released to commit more crimes."


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Sanctuary policies are interfering with governmental administration. In all states this is a crime. In my state it doesn't mention local, county, or state governmental administration:
Obstructing governmental or judicial administration. (1) A person commits the crime of obstructing governmental or judicial administration if the person intentionally obstructs, impairs or hinders the administration of law or other governmental or judicial function by means of intimidation, force, physical or economic interference or obstacle.

Everyone knows that illegals work within the underground economy. Informal economy, black market. This of courser means they are skating on taxes, business licenses, business regulations. So governments that have sanctuary policies are IMPOSING an unfair burden on taxpayers.

Moreover they skirt Constitutional provisions which gives the federal government---not state or local governments---the prerogative to regulate international commerce and uniform taxation. Sanctuary policies., de facto, result in non-uniform taxation. The governments are effectively condoning evasion and developing a criminal subculture.