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Sanctuary Cities have Roots with Faith Communities
The increased
attacks on
immigrants
N OEL A NDERSON
The House of Rep-
resentatives recently
voted to punish cit-
ies with community
policing efforts. H.R.
3009, The Enforce
the Law for Sanctu-
ary Cities Act passed
with a divided vote –
235 Republicans to 174 Demo-
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edy in San Francisco for their
own anti-immigrant agenda.
Sanctuary policies means
local police shouldn’t enforce
immigration, and according to
the Constitution, immigration
should only be enforced at the
federal level.
Sanctuary cities have their
roots with faith communities
who helped create the Sanctuary
Movement of the 1980s saving
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thousands of Central Ameri-
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but were not recognized by the
U.S. government as political
refugees. Deportation for them
meant being turned over to death
squads
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In the current era
of mass deportation
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years. This system depended
on the “Secure Communities”
program wherein local police
would detain people for Immi-
gration Customs Enforcement.
However, these ICE “hold”
requests were found unconsti-
tutional by a federal court in
Oregon in 2014. Three hundred
and twenty jurisdictions have
passed policies to stop honor-
ing ICE detainer requests. Law
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out the country agree that part
of ensuring public safety for
everyone means immigrants
who are witnesses or victims of
crimes should not be afraid to
talk to local police.
So why would Congress sup-
port this anti-immigrant legis-
lation? As we learn more about
how mass incarceration works
in the era of “colorblindness,” it
is abundantly clear that the lan-
guage of legality is being used as
a new code of racial bias.
Decision makers don’t use
racial slurs like the 1954 “Op-
eration Wetback” anymore; in-
stead they say “illegal criminal
aliens.” The social construction
of “other” relies on a system that
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come populations, and then
criminalizes people of color.
Some Senators want to make
all acts of re-entering the United
States after deportation a manda-
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years. Those who have been sep-
arated from their families by the
unjust and immoral mass depor-
tation system would be further
punished if they chose to reunite
with their family by crossing the
border.
As mass incarceration grows
in a country with over 2 mil-
lion people locked up, why are
we talking about incarcerating
more people? The private pris-
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poration of America put eleven
million dollars into lobbying
Congress. The more beds that
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make.
As we learn more about the
roots of the attacks on Sanctuary
cities and their connections to
mass incarceration, let us work
together from the tradition of
the Sanctuary movement to stop
these harmful and discriminato-
ry policies.
Noel Anderson is the nation-
al grassroots coordinator for
Justice Ministries in the United
Church of Christ.