As the Trump administration threatens to fulfill campaign pledges for more immigration enforcement, San Francisco officials reaffirmed the city’s sanctuary status on Tuesday.
At a gathering late Tuesday morning on the steps of San Francisco City Hall, authorities stated that while they were not bringing the fight, they were prepared to do so if necessary.
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, City Attorney David Chiu, and other labor and community leaders stood with a message.
Our workers and immigrant families need to trust us to keep them secure. “Our police officers are not ICE agents, and our victims and witnesses need to know that,” Chiu stated. Enforcing immigration laws is the duty of the federal government. Neither the state nor municipal governments are in charge of it. When resources are limited, we must prioritize fighting crime rather than severing families.
Daniel Lurie, the newly elected mayor of San Francisco, adding, “We stand with you and recognize your contributions to our city.”
Sanctuary cities are currently being targeted by the House Oversight Committee, which is chaired by the Republican Party. In two weeks, the mayors of New York City, Boston, Chicago, and Denver will be asked to testify in a committee hearing.
James Comer, a representative from Kentucky and the chair of the committee, wrote a letter on Monday stating that federal law enforcement is unable to make safe arrests and remove offenders from communities due to foolish and obstructionist policies.
The Bay Area migrant population is experiencing increased concern as a result of the Trump administration’s immigration rhetoric.
According to city officials, a Colombian national was apprehended as a result of an operation carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in San Jose on Sunday. City school authorities brought up the incident in a letter to families on Thursday after a false report of ICE officers on a Muni bus in San Francisco’s Visitacion Valley was refuted.
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