The End of Sanctuary Cities

Donald Trump has vowed to put a halt to the invasion of America if re-elected. First and foremost, US politicians must stop enticing people to travel to America to seek sanctuary. “I’m announcing a new plan to end all sanctuary cities in North Carolina and all across our country,” Trump announced at a recent rally.

“We will send them home where they belong,” he said. “I will ask Congress to pass a law outlawing sanctuary cities nationwide, and we will bring down the full weight of the federal government on any jurisdiction that refuses to cooperate with ICE,” Trump said on sanctuary cities.

This is crucial as immigration must be blanketed as a federal concern. We cannot have certain states or cities enticing foreigners to travel there by any means necessary and then using federal funds to support their work-free lives. Any politician who actively aids in the invasion of America should be charged with obstruction of justice at a minimum. Trump has called Kamala Harris the “invasion president” as she proudly encouraged tens of millions of unvetted migrants to enter America AND has no plan to curtail the new arrivals.

Look at the tragic case of 22-year-old Laken Riley, a student who was brutally murdered by a migrant. US Customs and Border Protection arrested the Venezuelan migrant in September 2022. He was quickly released and sent on a bus to the sanctuary city of New York. A year later, the NYPD arrested him for endangering the life of his own son. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) did not step in, and the sanctuary city placed the safety of the migrant criminal before its own citizens – he was shortly released for the second time. A month later, he was arrested for stealing from a Walmart in Athens, GA, another sanctuary city, but again, he faced no consequences. The system emboldened him to commit increasingly heinous crimes, as there are simply no consequences for migrants. He and his extended family were enjoying a taxpayer-subsidized life. The coward was likely surprised that he was charged with raping and murdering Laken Riley, as the politicization of migrants has become more important than national security.

What did President Joe Biden do? He apologized for calling the murderer an “illegal” instead of a “migrant” and refused to acknowledge Laken Riley’s family for months.

Riley is one of hundreds if not thousands of innocent citizens who have fallen victim to migrant crime. The Democrat-run cities refuse to prosecute these criminals all for political circus.

Crime is half of the problem. These sanctuary cities are deeply in debt. They have nowhere to house these migrants. Hospitals have been overrun. Contracts to house and feed these people indefinitely have become utterly corrupt, with third parties securing lucrative deals with the city to spend more on migrants than the average working American would spend on themselves.

Migration MUST be a federal issue. The Guarantee Clause in Article IV, Section 4 obligates the federal government to protect states from invasion but the Constitution has been utterly ignored under Biden-Harris.

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion"