If you ask most Americans if they know the meaning behind the term Sanctuary City they look at you with a blank stare and when informed of the meaning you get bewilderment, uncertainty and then anger because the average American places blind trust in their elected leaders to uphold the laws on the books in their town.
Never in their wildest dreams could they imagine that elected officials on the local, state and national levels have been passing sanctuary policies limiting local, state and federal employee’s of the ability to report the presence of illegal aliens to the federal authorities for deportation proceedings.
Please do not confuse laws that protect "immigrant rights" with illegal aliens because immigrants have entered the USA legally and have to maintain legal presence. Illegal aliens have entered the USA illegally and hence have no rights and are subject to deportation.
These sanctuary policies have created a safe haven for illegal aliens all across our great nation allowing millions upon millions of illegal aliens to walk across our unprotected borders and settle down in any town USA.
As of this writing there are 167 stated sanctuary Cities including Philadelphia in the USA and the whole state of Maine with many more using unwritten sanctuary policies. The devastating effects of these sanctuary policies have not missed as single town in America as the rising tide of illegal aliens suppress wages, receive free medical treatment, food stamps, public schooling, and WIC.
It is you my friend the taxpayers who end up paying for all of these services.
When illegals get arrested, again it is taxpayers who pay for their court services and imprisonment. All of this is complete insanity but the worst is the criminal element of these illegal aliens that murder US citizens either intentionally or inadvertently through auto accidents or other means. If the current sanctuary policies were not in place these individuals would never had been snatched from their loved ones in the first place.
