Salt Lake City shirks Trump, refuses to enforce his immigration edict

[JakeStarkey]

The city's executive leadership, Mayor Biskupski and City Police Chief Mike Brown, said President Donald Trump's immigration agenda is dead on arrival.

Mayor Jackie Biskupski, "said Thursday that her city is a 'welcoming community.' She continued, "Our police department is not enforcing federal immigration policy," and that "The Salt Lake City Police Department has a longstanding practice against officers inquiring about the immigration status of those they come in contact with on a day-to-day basis."

Chief Brown reinforced the Mayor's statement that the police department will continue its policy of not enforcing immigration law. "The residents in Salt Lake City need to have trust in their police officers," he said. "If police officers were forced to detect and detain immigrants who are here without authorization, this trust is easily broken."

Rep. Mark Wheatley, D-Murray, believes, "Trump's proposed policy would be 'stepping backward.'"

Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams issued a statement that the "county cooperates with federal immigration authorities and would continue to do so — particularly as their efforts relate to drug dealing", etc., but that he believes the immigration laws are broken.

The Provo City Police Chief says local police should not be involved in immigration policing.

The LDS Church has clearly made it clear that it is an immigrant friendly institution.

So, no, President Trump, no Utah for you!


SLC shirks Trump, refuses to enforce his immigration edict

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown speaks as House Democratic Representatives and Utah Latino Leaders, along with community activists, law enforcement, and others spoke against recent orders by President Donald Trump on immigration and refugee status. The press event took place at the Salt Lake City Public Safety Building, Thursday January 26, 2017. At rear are Rep. Angela Romero, Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck, Sen. Luz Escamilla, and Rep. Mark A. Wheatley.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

A number of cities are refusing to comply with federal law. They will forego federal funds. They can. No one is going to arrest them.

What will really happen is that illegal alien criminals will know which cities will protect them and go there. It is admirable for these sanctuary cities to become magnets for criminals and contribute to the safety of complying cities.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

More money for cities that do enforce the laws

 

[theHawk]

The city's executive leadership, Mayor Biskupski and City Police Chief Mike Brown, said President Donald Trump's immigration agenda is dead on arrival.

Mayor Jackie Biskupski, "said Thursday that her city is a 'welcoming community.' She continued, "Our police department is not enforcing federal immigration policy," and that "The Salt Lake City Police Department has a longstanding practice against officers inquiring about the immigration status of those they come in contact with on a day-to-day basis."

Chief Brown reinforced the Mayor's statement that the police department will continue its policy of not enforcing immigration law. "The residents in Salt Lake City need to have trust in their police officers," he said. "If police officers were forced to detect and detain immigrants who are here without authorization, this trust is easily broken."

Rep. Mark Wheatley, D-Murray, believes, "Trump's proposed policy would be 'stepping backward.'"

Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams issued a statement that the "county cooperates with federal immigration authorities and would continue to do so — particularly as their efforts relate to drug dealing", etc., but that he believes the immigration laws are broken.

The Provo City Police Chief says local police should not be involved in immigration policing.

The LDS Church has clearly made it clear that it is an immigrant friendly institution.

So, no, President Trump, no Utah for you!


SLC shirks Trump, refuses to enforce his immigration edict

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown speaks as House Democratic Representatives and Utah Latino Leaders, along with community activists, law enforcement, and others spoke against recent orders by President Donald Trump on immigration and refugee status. The press event took place at the Salt Lake City Public Safety Building, Thursday January 26, 2017. At rear are Rep. Angela Romero, Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck, Sen. Luz Escamilla, and Rep. Mark A. Wheatley.

They are breaking Federal law. Which means they get a go to jail for free card.

Can't wait to see these treasonous punks in a Federal prison.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

It will be interesting to watch the reactions of American citizens in those Sanctuary cities as services are cut due to the loss of federal funds.

 

[theHawk]

The mayor doesn't get to determine if a law is "broken". You don't like a law, get it overturned by legislation.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

A number of cities are refusing to comply with federal law. They will forego federal funds. They can. No one is going to arrest them.

What will really happen is that illegal alien criminals will know which cities will protect them and go there. It is admirable for these sanctuary cities to become magnets for criminals and contribute to the safety of complying cities.

Seems like a fair trade

 

[waltky]

Which means they'll be protecting the criminal illegals...

... the drug dealers, rapists and murderers.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The city's executive leadership, Mayor Biskupski and City Police Chief Mike Brown, said President Donald Trump's immigration agenda is dead on arrival.

Mayor Jackie Biskupski, "said Thursday that her city is a 'welcoming community.' She continued, "Our police department is not enforcing federal immigration policy," and that "The Salt Lake City Police Department has a longstanding practice against officers inquiring about the immigration status of those they come in contact with on a day-to-day basis."

Chief Brown reinforced the Mayor's statement that the police department will continue its policy of not enforcing immigration law. "The residents in Salt Lake City need to have trust in their police officers," he said. "If police officers were forced to detect and detain immigrants who are here without authorization, this trust is easily broken."

Rep. Mark Wheatley, D-Murray, believes, "Trump's proposed policy would be 'stepping backward.'"

Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams issued a statement that the "county cooperates with federal immigration authorities and would continue to do so — particularly as their efforts relate to drug dealing", etc., but that he believes the immigration laws are broken.

The Provo City Police Chief says local police should not be involved in immigration policing.

The LDS Church has clearly made it clear that it is an immigrant friendly institution.

So, no, President Trump, no Utah for you!


SLC shirks Trump, refuses to enforce his immigration edict

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown speaks as House Democratic Representatives and Utah Latino Leaders, along with community activists, law enforcement, and others spoke against recent orders by President Donald Trump on immigration and refugee status. The press event took place at the Salt Lake City Public Safety Building, Thursday January 26, 2017. At rear are Rep. Angela Romero, Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck, Sen. Luz Escamilla, and Rep. Mark A. Wheatley.

They are breaking Federal law. Which means they get a go to jail for free card. Can't wait to see these treasonous punks in a Federal prison.

Tough, and you won't.

 

[Claudette]

We'll be hearing them scream when their taxes go up.

Wonder how long it will take them to get rid of the Govt. that thinks more of illegals than the people who pay taxes??

 

[DGS49]

Maybe the money withheld from "Sanctuary Cities" can be used to build the fucking wall.

Can we be honest for a second? ALL OF THE POLITCIANS taking this stance are DEMOCRATS. It is the Democrats' belief that at some time in the future, when we have a Democrat President and Congress, legislation will be passed granting citizenship to the AT LEAST 20 million illegals in our country. They further believe, as an article of faith, that those people, when legalized, will vote 100% straight-ticket Democrat.

That is what this is all about. There is no compassion, no humanitarianism, no feeling for the illegals. It is all blatant partisanship.

But fortunately for the United States, about half of our voters saw through this line of bullshit and voted for Mr. Trump. Which was all it took.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

No one from these cities will go to jail. The people who live in these cities are having a terrible burden placed on them. If they don't like it they can leave.

A secondary effect of opening the floodgates is that the law abiding will be out voted by the criminal class. There will be no way to fix the problem down the line.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

We'll be hearing them scream when their taxes go up.

Wonder how long it will take them to get rid of the Govt. that thinks more of illegals than the people who pay taxes??

Sometimes never. The taxpayers become cash cows to the illegals. What the government doesn't take is stolen.

 

[ThoughtCrimes]

They are breaking Federal law. Which means they get a go to jail for free card.

Can't wait to see these treasonous punks in a Federal prison.

Cite the Title, Chapters and Sections of the USC that codify those statutes confirming your assertion! Here is a small portion of what SCOTUS had to say about States getting involved in enforcement of US immigration law just five years ago:

"By authorizing state and local officers to make warrantless arrests of certain aliens suspected of being removable, §6 too creates an obstacle to federal law. As a general rule, it is not a crime for a removable alien to remain in the United States. The federal scheme instructs when it is appropriate to arrest an alien during the removal process. The Attorney General in some circumstances will issue a warrant for trained federal immigration officers to execute. If no federal warrant has been issued, these officers have more limited authority. They may arrest an alien for being “in the United States in violation of any [immigration] law or regulation,” for example, but only where the alien “is likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained.” §1357(a)(2). Section 6 attempts to provide state officers with even greater arrest authority, which they could exercise with no instruction from the Federal Government. This is not the system Congress created. Federal law specifies limited circumstances in which state officers may perform an immigration officer’s functions. This includes instances where the Attorney General has granted that authority in a formal agreement with a state or local government. See, e.g., §1357(g)(1). Although federal law permits state officers to “cooperate with the Attorney General in the identification, apprehension, detention, or removal of aliens not lawfully present in the United States,” §1357(g)(10)(B), this does not encompass the unilateral decision to detain authorized by §6. Pp. 15–19."
~~ ARIZONA v. UNITED STATES ~~

That is just a single sample of the forbidden practice of States exercising US immigration law noted in that decision, but there are more that apply to the current situation. The National government has EXCLUSIVE authority for such through the Supremacy Clause as noted by SCOTUS in Arizona v. US! The Arizona State government tried to force that practice with SB 1070, the ill advised "papers please law", that Trump now wishes to impose on the several states by edict, but it won't get off the ground! It's unconstitutional, period! We have never needed a unified Police State in this Nation. Anyone who would welcome one is fucked in the grey matter!

 

[whitehall]

They have to understand that the immigration law is not something that was just enacted. The law is on the books and the criminal administration that decided not to enforce it is gone. An official that defies federal law can be arrested and an official who releases an illegal alien that commits murder is also guilty of murder. Be warned that there is a new Sheriff in town and he is going to kick some ass.

 

[buckeye45_73]

Thank you salt lake city for saving taxpayer money....