I guess it all goes back to the meaning of SANCTUARY CITY! SANCTUARY CITIES in the UNITED STATES is a HUMAN RIGHT for ILLEGALS!

"It doesn’t seem to matter if it is Police Officer in Houston attempting to safe guard his city, a high school student in Los Angeles standing in front of his home while his mother is half way around the world defending her/our country, or a father and his sons in San Francisco driving home were all among thousands of other U.S. Citizens who became targets of ILLEGALS and were murdered because of the greed of "our" Elitist Politicians and their Elitist Contributors in search of "cheap labor" to help their "bottom line"!

Our FAMILIES are at the mercy of ILLEGALS and their Anchors being murdered, raped, infected with disease, or robbed. We can see the results of the ILLEGAL invasion in our courts every day! But NOT to worry the Chamber of Commerce will get their cheap labor increasing their privatized PROFITS while socializing the benefits for their ILLEGALS on the back of U. S. Citizens, thanks to our past and current Presidents, the Congressional Leadership(?), and local elected and appointed officials!

P.S. Sadly Houston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco are among the many SANCTUARY Cities in the United States!
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| Houston & Texas | Nation & world Immigration Chronicles
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June 29, 2010
'Sanctuary' label follows former HPD chief to ICE

AP Photo/David J. Phillip
Former Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt listens to a question during a news conference on Dec. 17 in Houston.

Former Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt, who recently was appointed to a top Immigration and Customs Enforcement job, is taking a beating in the press and on the Web for being a "Sanctuary City" supporter.

Some of the headlines are brutal. (And, to be fair, inaccurate):
New ICE Director Supports Sanctuary for Cop Killing Illegal Aliens, one reads.
http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010062810 ... liens.html


Bill O'Reilly took on Hurtt's appointment in his Talking Points Memo, calling him "outwardly sympathetic to illegal aliens."
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/t ... kingpoints

"As chief, he refused to enforce federal immigration law," O'Reilly wrote. "Now Hurtt is a federal immigration official? Come on. That's insane."

Hurtt has long insisted that Houston is not a Sanctuary City. Here is his explanation, in his own words, from last year about how Houston is mislabeled.
http://blogs.chron.com/thelist/2009/03/ ... _labe.html


In an interview Monday, Hurtt said he's feeling misunderstood.

"We had a great relationship working with ICE," Hurtt said. "To say that Houston is a sanctuary city is just untrue."

So what is a sanctuary city? We've written about this before, but we'll rehash it again.

Experts said there is no single, universally accepted definition of a Sanctuary City. The phrase is often misused in the news media and by politicians to describe cities with a wide range of policies on treatment of suspected illegal immigrants, critics said. The terminology emerged in the 1980s when certain U.S. cities, including San Francisco, offered sanctuary to Central American immigrants who crossed the border illegally after fleeing wars in their countries.

For years, Former Mayor Bill White and Hurtt tried to shed the sanctuary label, bestowed on Houston and more than 30 other cities and counties by a 2006 Congressional Research Service report. The report described sanctuary cities as having a "don't ask, don't tell" policy when it comes to questioning illegal immigrants about their immigration status.
Houston forbids officers from questioning people on the street about their immigration status.

But White and Hurtt both supported partnerships with ICE in the city's jails. In 2006, after Houston police Officer Rodney Johnson was killed by a previously deported felon, Hurtt and White announced they would run identity checks on suspects who did not carry valid IDs and allowed ICE access to its jails. (See reaction to Hurtt's appointment this week from Johnson's widow here. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06 ... pointment/ )

Last year, the city proposed participating in ICE's 287 (g) program, but instead signed on for ICE Secure Communities program, which automatically screens the immigration history of all suspects booked into jail.

But that fell short for some anti-illegal immigration critics, who wanted the city to enforce immigration laws outside of the jails.

"For us to concentrate on a misdemeanor of being in the country illegally, that just wasn't a good use of resources," Hurtt said.

Posted by Susan Carroll at June 29, 2010 01:08 PM
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