Thread: City Councilman wants sanctuary city

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An editorial
The Providence Journal
Tuesday, August 28, 2007

City officials in a few municipalities around America -- New York, Newark, N.J., and San Francisco, among them -- that have their communities declared "sanctuary cities" for illegal aliens ought to be ashamed of themselves. They are encouraging lawbreaking and the flow of even more illegal aliens into the United States.

This may be popular with some groups, but not with the mass of the citizenry, who must live with the legal and economic effects of the influx of illegal aliens, and really do think that this should be a country where laws, federal and otherwise, are respected. State and local laws, by the way, are not supposed to contradict federal ones.

In "sanctuary cities," city employees are discouraged from, or in some places face an outright ban on, reporting illegal immigrants to federal officials. Thus they are told to countenance breaking the law. What an example for public officials to set!

Sadly, Providence, R.I., City Councilman Migual Luna wants Providence to become such a city. Luna's proposed ordinances would bar city employees, including the police, from inquiring into the immigration status of people in the city, or reporting suspected illegals to federal immigration officers, unless the person has committed a felony offense. (How is the average city worker supposed to know that someone might have a criminal record?)

Luna says that his ordinances "will prohibit city officials or law enforcement from working with immigration (officials)." He says his main idea in encouraging people to ignore federal law is to avoid deterring people from using city services.

This is a staggeringly irresponsible proposal, and one grotesquely unfair to people who want to respect the law, including most especially those immigrants who came here legally. And these laws, of course, encourage more illegal immigration. Is that Luna's aim? In any event, businesses looking for ever-cheaper labor and certain politicians looking to increase the number of their loyal followers may well like the councilman's idea. We suspect, however, that most citizens, including taxpayers, will not.

Meanwhile, you wonder whether cities whose officials are ordered to overlook violations of federal law should receive federal funds.

http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/26323

Sadly, Providence, R.I., City Councilman Migual Luna wants Providence to become such a city. Luna's proposed ordinances would bar city employees, including the police, from inquiring into the immigration status of people in the city, or reporting suspected illegals to federal immigration officers, unless the person has committed a felony offense. (How is the average city worker supposed to know that someone might have a criminal record?)

WHO SPAWNED THIS IDIOT???? Has he just come back from vacation from another planet??? The inquiring minds would like to know.........

Originally Posted by Ex_OC

Sadly, Providence, R.I., City Councilman Migual Luna wants Providence to become such a city. Luna's proposed ordinances would bar city employees, including the police, from inquiring into the immigration status of people in the city, or reporting suspected illegals to federal immigration officers, unless the person has committed a felony offense. (How is the average city worker supposed to know that someone might have a criminal record?)

WHO SPAWNED THIS IDIOT???? Has he just come back from vacation from another planet??? The inquiring minds would like to know.........

by the sound of his name and the ideology he is spouting he just may be another mexican reconista invader.

[quote="by the sound of his name and the ideology he is spouting he just may be another mexican reconista invader.[/quote]

I think the good people in Providence should change his name from councilman Luna to councilman Lunatic.

Originally Posted by controlledImmigration

I think the good people in Providence should change his name from councilman Luna to councilman Lunatic.

LOL

I agree and LMAO also, how did we end up with so many brainless dumb jackasses in offices across this nation??


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