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    "Sanctuary" Designation Encourages Illegal Immigra

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    Cities encourage illegal immigration

    By Dennis Hollingsworth
    April 3, 2006

    In the 1980s, cities around the country began instituting illegal immigrant “safe havens” and “sanctuary” ordinances or policies that prevent city employees, especially law enforcement, from inquiring about the immigration status of any individual or cooperating with federal immigration officials. While it would be easy to dismiss such declarations as rhetoric to showcase their higher state of enlightenment on the illegal immigration issue, these actions have a real impact on California and contribute to a real cost: about $10 billion.

    That's the estimated total annual cost of illegal immigration to the state's taxpayers. The cost for incarcerating more than 18,000 criminal illegal immigrants alone is almost $750 million.

    With the estimated population of illegal immigrants in the state more than 2.3 million and growing, California taxpayers can expect to be footing the bill for an even larger tab in coming years. With an ongoing budget deficit of over $6 billion, the cost is a serious impact on our state's ability to accommodate a growing legal population of immigrants and births.

    These sanctuary policies that prevent law enforcement from doing their jobs and encourage massive illegal immigration have now spread to nearly 20 California cities, including Los Angeles with its “Special Order 40,” San Francisco and San Diego. These ordinances not only encourage illegal immigration and its costs, they prevent law enforcement from combating gangs and drug rings. Murderous gangs like MS-13 and others are predominantly illegal immigrants, sometimes 70 percent or 80 percent.

    Yet these sanctuary policies prevent police from turning over to immigration officials a gang member they know is in the country illegally. And who do these gangs prey upon? Largely the underclass of illegal immigrants and inner-city Hispanics. So much for these policies being immigrant friendly.

    These reasons are why I've introduced SB 1767, which would stop state aid funding for a city with an illegal immigration “Sanctuary” ordinance or policy.

    The saying goes, “if you want to get someone to change, hit 'em where it hurts.” Government hurts most when hit in the pocketbook. Take away state funding from a city: no more state highway money, no park bond dollars, and grants for gang task forces, drug enforcement or libraries. Cities that thumb their collective noses at the law will do it at their own taxpayers' expense, not the rest of California's.

    SB 1767 will be heard in the Senate Public Safety Committee tomorrow. While enacting this bill makes sense to most Californians, don't expect it to be on the governor's desk any time soon.

    With the Democratic Party in Sacramento squarely on the side of illegal immigration, promoting it with reduced tuition at state colleges, rewarding it with health care benefits and facilitating it with drivers' licenses, don't expect my bill to see the light of day after its first hearing. Too bad.

    With Congress now debating our borders and illegal immigration, the least we can do from state government's perspective, if not stopping it, is to stop encouraging it.



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    Hollingsworth is state senator for the 36th District, which includes areas of San Diego and Riverside counties, and is the Senate Republican whip.
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    Chicago is one of those cities and Mayor Daley said he will not enforce the law and the whole political system in this state needs an overhaul.....but they have the big bucks backing them.
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