The Knock at the Door: San Francisco’s Sanctuary Status Under Fire
New America Media, News Feature, Words: Elena Shore, Posted: Sep 16, 2008
Editor’s Note: The arrest of six undocumented immigrants at a private home in San Francisco last week calls into question how protected undocumented immigrants in this “sanctuary city” really are. Elena Shore is an editor for New America Media. Josue Rojas is a producer for New America Media.
SAN FRANCISCO – Immigration agents entered a private home in San Francisco on Sept. 11, 2008, arresting six undocumented immigrants in what residents see as the most recent evidence that this is no longer a “sanctuary city.”
“They say this is a sanctuary city, but they’re throwing us away like garbage,” says Freddie Herrera, 21, who was in the middle of dinner with his family when he heard the doorbell ring.
“Sanctuary doesn’t affect ICE’s efforts to enforce immigration law,” explains Lori Haley, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “ICE officers are sworn to enforce federal law.”
But Jamal Dajani, chairman of the city’s Immigrant Rights Commission, disagrees. He calls the arrests last Thursday “a total violation of the sanctuary ordinance. This is exactly why the sanctuary ordinance was created,” he says.
In 1989, San Francisco passed the "City of Refuge" Ordinance (Sanctuary Ordinance) that prohibits city employees from helping ICE with immigration arrests unless required by federal or state law or a warrant.
The fact that ICE agents entered a private residence with nothing more than a deportation order, Dajani says, is “totally different” from entering with a warrant for a crime. “They’re going into private homes, which means the city can’t protect its own residents.”
“If this is allowed,” adds Dajani, “it basically ends any kind of discussion about sanctuary cities – whether it’s San Francisco or New York.”
Julia Harumi, a lawyer with the ACLU of Northern California, says her organization has seen incidents in the past of ICE agents entering homes without consent. “If they didn’t have reasonable suspicion that the residents were undocumented,” she says, “then detaining them would violate the Fourth Amendment.”
The agents that came to the door of a San Francisco home last Thursday were members of ICE Fugitive Operations, a unit dedicated to locating, arresting and removing individuals with outstanding deportation orders. One of the residents opened the door, and the agents found the individual they were looking for, as well as two others who also had outstanding deportation orders, says Haley.
Jilma Herrera (Freddie Herrera’s sister), Carlos Gonzalez (Herrera’s brother-in-law) and Roxana Cuellas, are currently in ICE custody in Arizona pending removal to Honduras.
The other three undocumented immigrants, Freddie Herrera, Eufemia Pineda and Ana Ruth Quintanilla, did not have outstanding deportation orders and were released with electronic monitoring devices on their ankles.
Pineda, 34, says she got home at 6:30 p.m. to find immigration agents in her living room.
“My kids were the first thing I thought about,” says Pineda, who lives in the 10-person house with her husband, Roger Omar Cruz, 41, and their two children, Daniel, 7, and Keren, 2 years old.
Pineda, a childcare worker who has lived in San Francisco for nine years, hugs her son close to her. “Thank God my kids weren’t there,” she says. “What would they have thought to see me being taken away?”
While they were being detained the six immigrants, who are devout Evangelicals, prayed together. “My cousin Jilma started speaking in tongues,” recalls Pineda. “It was the presence of God. And they told her to shut up.”
But Pineda says her faith kept her going. “I felt a supernatural force only God could give,” she says. “We know what we believe in.”
Ana Ruth Quintanilla, 26, who moved to San Francisco two years ago, says the six immigrants were placed in a cold cell. “I told them, “We’re not criminals,’ and they said, ‘Your crime is being here,” she recalls.
“But I’m here out of necessity,” explains Quintanilla, who is supporting her children back home. Quintanilla works as a cook at Burger King, and sends money every month to her three children, ages 10, 8 and 4, who live with their father in El Salvador.
Her fiancée, 30-year-old Osmin Ortiz Gonzalez, wasn’t home when the agents arrived. He says the only thing that has allowed them to get through this difficult time is their faith. “We’re foreigners in this land,” he says, “but God is here with us.”
Pineda’s husband, Roger Omar Cruz, 41, who works at a marble company, says he believes God will prevent all of them from being deported.
The night after the raid, the household gathered with their family and friends. Their pastor, Abel Garcia, lead a prayer, and each person prayed aloud to remain in this country and not be separated from family members.
Herrera, Pineda and Quintanilla will go before an immigration judge who will decide whether to deport them or let them stay in the country. Until then, they must wear electronic monitoring devices, even though none of them has a criminal record. They are not allowed to leave San Francisco. They cannot leave the house before 6:30 a.m. and must be home by 11:30 p.m.
Herrera lifts up his pant leg to reveal the electronic monitoring device on his ankle. “It’s a iPod,” he jokes. “I listen to songs on it.”
Quintanilla doesn’t know how long they will have to wear the ankle bracelets.
“This is a horrible experience that I’ll never forget,” says Quintanilla. “I’m just waiting for ICE to come. It’s like a cross I have to bear.”
Herrera has one piece of advice for other immigrants in the same situation: “Don’t open the door to anyone you don’t know,” he says.
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Nezzie on Sep 26, 2008 at 11:29:14 said:
In my country, when a parent commits a crime, the children have to suffer for the sins of the parents. Don't break the law, have a baby and expect American citizens to allow you to use that child to anchor yourself to our country. Don't use children to assist you in continuing to break the law. We all sympathize with these children, however, it is not America's problem, we have our own children to worry about now can you spell 1.2 Trillion dollars, with 10 billion of it going to LaRAZA to help shore up "un-documented" loans, oh no, I have no sympathy for them, because now I have to worry about our own! Unfortunate.
cristina calle on Sep 24, 2008 at 18:34:23 said:
Most of the comments I have read just make me really sad cause they force me to realize how ignorant people are. Do you think it's fair for a small child to be ostersized for the sins of their parents? Many children of illegal immigrants didn't choose to come to the US, they were just moved, the same way parents move their children to a new neighborhood or another state. Is it fair for a child that pledges alligience everyday and celebrates Thanksgiving and the 4th of July to be considered a felone? To the disbelief of many, most illegal immigrants aren't illiterate fools that speak with a heavy accent. I ask you to look at the track record of many schools in cities like Los Angeles, New York, and Miami who have a huge immigrant population, and see how many valedictorians are or are children of illegal immigrants. The results will surprise those who believe that illegals are a burden. Furthermore, the gang banger form of life is one that was developed in the US many decades ago, before the whole immigration issue. In the last decade or so it has trickled down to Latin America thanks to globolization. Some immigrants choose to live that life because what happens when they try to live an honest life, they find themselves with the hardest obstacle to overcome, prejudice. I agree with deporting illegal immigrants who commite a crime, it's fair and necessary, but being illegal is not a crime, especially when many didn't have a choice. Please stop allowing fear and ignorance to rule the US. Please don't allow a small misinformed group of people decide the destiny of many who have done nothing to be treated like criminals except go along with their parents decisions when they were too young to made their voices heard.
Ransome on Sep 19, 2008 at 10:17:22 said:
On Crime in Chicago
A recent audit of the Lake County jail found that 21.5 percent of the prisoners were in this country illegally, Sheriff Mark Curran said Thursday.
Renewing his call for stepped-up deportation of illegal immigrants who commit crimes, Curran said they are charged with half of the 14 murders in the county so far this year.
"You cannot fight for crime victims and ignore the illegal immigration problem," Curran said. "You cannot pretend to care about all the children that die from gang and gun violence and ignore the illegal immigration problem."
Curran said the audit was done Aug. 6 by agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). It found that 137 of the 637 jail inmates on that day were born in other countries.
Of those, Curran said, 122 had questionable or illegal entry status, and ICE ultimately issued orders for 75 to face deportation proceedings once their criminal cases had been concluded and their sentences served.
Curran said getting rid of the 21.5 percent of the inmates who are illegal could represent a $4 million reduction in the jail's current operating budget of $18.9 million.
Ransome on Sep 18, 2008 at 17:51:22 said:
Antonovich says the costs are creating a “devastating impact” on the County.
New statistics from the Department of Public Social Services reveal that illegal aliens and their families in Los AngelesCounty collected over $36 million in welfare and food stamp allocations in May 2008. These findings were announced by Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich.
Topics: Illegal Immigration, Michael D. Antonovich, Los Angeles, California, Department of Public Social Services, illegal alien costs, welfare, food stamps, taxpayers, public safety, healthcare, education, illegal immigration statistics
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Twenty five percent of the all welfare and food stamps benefits is going directly to the children of illegal aliens. Illegals collected over $19 million in welfare assistance for May 2008 and over $16 million in monthly food stamp allocations, for a projected annual cost of $432 million.
“Illegal immigration continues to have a devastating impact on Los Angeles County taxpayers,” said Antonovich. “With $220 million for public safety, $400 million for healthcare, and $432 million in welfare allocations, the total cost for illegal immigrants to County taxpayers far exceeds $1 billion a year – not including the millions of dollars for education.”
Ransome on Sep 18, 2008 at 17:47:18 said:
ANGELES — This is part three of a five-part series looking at how illegal immigration affects U.S. border security, the criminal, health care and education systems, as well as the economy. Watch the series this week on FOX News Channel.
Overburdened by the uninsured and overwhelmed by illegal immigration (search), public health care in Los Angeles is on life support.
Sixty percent of the county's uninsured patients are not U.S. citizens. More than half are here illegally. About 2 million undocumented aliens in Los Angeles County alone are crowding emergency rooms because they can't afford to see a doctor.
According to the State Association of Hospitals (search), California's public health system is "on the brink of collapse." In Los Angeles County, patients can wait four days for a hospital bed and up to two years for gallbladder surgery.
"The hospitals are closing because of the totality of the uninsured," said Dr. Thomas Garthwaite, director of the Los Angeles County Health Department (search). "If you're legally a resident in California and you're poor, you have a right to basic services."
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But some critics say the taxpayers can't be the HMO (search) to the world. Last year, Los Angeles County spent $340 million to treat the uninsured; that's roughly $1,000 for every taxpayer.
"We're citizens here. Why should somebody from another country that's here illegally get anything that we can't get? I mean that's dumb, that's not right," said Don Schenck, whose son, Bill, is mentally disabled.
Though the Schencks are uninsured, and considered poor by county standards, his father had to find a way to pay for his Bill's care while thousands of others, in the country illegally, get it for free.
"It makes you feel pretty bad when you're born in that country and you're handicapped and you've got a learning disability and you can't get medical," Schenck said.
Mike Antonovich, the Los Angeles County supervisor, said the system has been "basically bankrupted."
The Department of Health has a $1.2 billion deficit. Caring for illegals is siphoning money from other services and forcing clinics, trauma centers and emergency rooms to close, he said.
"We cannot afford to have a open-door policy to encourage illegals to continue to come here and receive all the medical care, because it's too expensive," he said.
Immigrants like Yolanda Hernandez, however, argue that if there were cheap insurance plans available to her community, people would buy them.
"[Americans] have enough money to pay for insurance," she said. "They make good money and are educated. Unfortunately, we are not."
Christina Lee on Sep 18, 2008 at 13:27:57 said:
To carolyn hicks:
It’s interesting that you started out your statement above with the phrase, “I do feel for the illegal aliens…” and then you basically disprove that statement with your following pontifications. You, obviously, do not feel for the undocumented human beings who are in this country, nor are you aware of the real facts. Before you start making sweeping generalizations that the undocumented drain our assistance programs, that they are thieves and felons etc., I think you need to first educate yourself on the real facts. Being undocumented does not make you a felon. Also, are you aware that most undocumented immigrants pay taxes just like you and me? And what assistance programs are you talking about? Undocumented immigrants cannot get welfare, foods stamps or social security. Please do your research.
You are, of course, entitled to your opinion about the current immigration situation—however, I do ask that you don’t mask your racism and discrimination with frivolous and baseless information. If you feel, as you said above, that “we are being taken over by mexicans…” then end your statement there. Do not try to get support for your racism by making stuff up. It does a disservice not only to those who want to know the real facts, but even to those who are anti-immigrant.
And I also really like your last P.S. that all illegal supporters need to leave the United States because we are not wanted here. Wow—I am a United States citizen, as well as a pro-immigrant activist, I was not aware that my country did not want me here. Again—please get your facts straight.
carolyn hicks on Sep 18, 2008 at 09:02:45 said:
I do feel for the illegal aliens but they need to stay in their own country and fight for change to build a better way of life for themselves and their children.They are cowards they want to come here and reap the rewards of our struggles for freedom they want a free pass. They drain our assistance programs using several different names getting several times the benefits they are theives and felons. The (ICE) are just doing their job, not as fast as I would like though, we need to help all we can. We need to have our own rallies on Washington in protest,we are being taken over by mexicans especially. Remember-( We The People ) We need to all stand together for our American Rights not to be invaded and out tax money used to support free supplies to illegals. If they believe they are not doing anything wrong by being here why would the not answer the door? They know they are felons and I am sick of them. Carolyn Hicks PS> all illegal supporters need to leave our country also you are not wanted here!
Nezzie on Sep 18, 2008 at 06:29:02 said:
I totally disagree with what you just said Harrison. It appears to me that the United States has had migrant workers in the fields and on seafood farms for many years. It was not until big business started to get greedy and began to lay off rural and middle Americans in support for cheap labor from other countries. No one has ever purported that we should not allow immigration, but this illegal immigration that big business is proposing is not how we do things in America. Big business is not paying for these illegal immigrants to be educated, hospitalized, housed, fed, or any of the other necessities that are needed for a person to survive in America. They are filling up our welfare roles, and our housing vouchers, at taxpayer expense, while drawing salaries that they don't pay taxes on and sending the money they make from these big business owner's back home while the American citizen taxpayer take care of them and the anchor babies they drop thinking that they are safe if they do that. Perhaps the big business owners should all move to Mexico and those business owners that are for America will stay here and we will bring in the workers we need, as we have in the past and they will go home when the season is over. We will not buy the products that are sent here from Mexico, (can you say tainted vegetables) just as we will not purchase the lead based toys from China. Let's see how long all of that will last for these business owners. No, we in America are sick to death of this triple threat. We send millions of dollars to Mexico for aid to feed them and weapons to assist them with the issues they have. We then pay for them here, and they also as I said draw money from our coffers to send back home. Just how much is an American citizens supposed to take? We now have no jobs for us or our kids and with the HB 1, 2, 3 visa’s it is now hitting the middle class hard. Black umemployment is 11.7 percent! We are doing the black American citizent a diservice by trying to align this illegal invasion with the civil rights era of blacks in this country. Blacks were slaves, they did not get paid, over or under the table and yes, Rosa should have sat down so America would stand up. Blacks paid a very heavy price for their civil rights, they killed all of their leaders and left them with nothing. Women in America should have stood up. We had a right to our vote, we did not invade this country, we were not illegal immigrants trying to take it over. No this ride is over; Harrison is just another pro-illegal immigrant guru pushing the agenda of pro-immigrant off on the bible and the American people in the name of being a Christian! Thank GOD for the Rush and Lou Dobbs in America! I did not even know of Lou Dobbs until the pro-illegal immigrants starting trying to silence him and others in America who tell it like it is, which allows the American citizens to do as we have always done, make our own decision about our country and our lives. GOD Bless America, GOD bless Rush, Lou, and anyone else who is trying to get the truth out to the ones that this illegal immigration is hurting the most, people like me! Please join any anti-illegal immigration group in your area, help us save our country, help us protect our Constitution, help us to rid the 14th Amendment of the false premise that anyone born in the US is a US citizen, that is just plain wrong. Take back our Country America, and while you are at it, please join HelpSaveMaryland.com. The Democrats and Republican's have lost their minds and we need to let them know that we know that. Pelosi needs to go along with anyone who is giving our country away and has been in office for more than 2 years! This is an unfortunate situation, not for American citizens but for the illegal immigrants who have invaded our country. HelpSaveMaryland.com. Join FAIR, and NumbersUSA, I have said all of this before; you can call them anything you want, racist, xenophope, we don't care. Right now I see these organizations, all of them, as a light at the end of the tunnel of an illegal invasion.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Allegra Harrison on Sep 17, 2008 at 16:03:10 said:
Wow,
I am in awe of the ignorance, hatred and fear that continues to control the thoughts and behaviors of people around Latino immigrants throughout the US today, much in the same way that it did around African Americans in the 50\'s and 60\'s. Not to say that discrimination for black Americans and many other US born groups isn\'t still a blatant and embarrassing reality for this country, it obviously is. But the widespread entitlement and public outcry of these racist/xenophobic positions around the immigration issue - actually only around the Latino immigrant issue - is so reminiscent of those who protested the Civil Rights movement in the 60\'s, with people coupling their prejudices with their Christianity as though they are one and the same rather than polar opposites, and the dogmatic, almost fanatic, defense of a law simply because it is a law regardless of whether or not it is just.
It was also against the law when Rosa Parks wouldn\'t give her seat on the bus to a white person, it was against the law for women to vote, it was against the law when the first colonies revolted against Britain, when Ghandi refused to comply with the racist practices in India, and wasn\'t Jesus himself crucified for going against the laws of the land which also by the way involved standing up for oppressed people of the world?
So I suppose one can attribute the label of \"criminal\" to anyone who breaks a written law no matter how unjust or for no matter what reason it was broken, but if that is the case than we are all, every one of us a criminal. I really doubt that most people use that term so loosely, accept perhaps when it affirms their own corrupt belief system. If being here is a crime, then all Americans except those who were pushed out of their native lands and onto reservations are guilty of the same \"crimes\" that latino immigrants are vehemently accused of today, so shall we all deport ourselves? The first European American Colonists came to this country for the same reasons that Latin American and other immigrants come here today: to escape oppression, and/or in hopes of an opportunity to simply have a greater chance of survival for themselves and their families. It is a human condition to want to survive.
My two cents.
Marie S on Sep 17, 2008 at 10:38:14 said:
J Cir, I couldn't have said it better myself.
Thank you!
josh homer on Sep 17, 2008 at 09:52:08 said:
I had my id stolen by an illegal. He used it for a loan and a job. My credit is screwed and I have paid out about $5000 to try to fix it. You really think I should feel sorry for these criminals? What about me, a hard working AMERICAN? That's right, you care more about law breakers than AMERICANS. Why don't you write a story about me and the thousands of AMERICANS that are victimised by these criminals?
J Cir on Sep 16, 2008 at 22:12:15 said:
To Steve Hill: Gosh, thanks for reminding that we're all human beings. Since when did appreciating and standing up for law and order become hateful? When did excusing law breakers become loving? What other laws would you forsake in the name of love? If someone robbed a bank at gunpoint because he needed the money to feed his kids, should we hug him and let him free? We wouldn't want to be uncaring by separating the bank robber from his children with a prison sentence, would we? That would be so...mean.
Steve, if you truly believe that the phrase, "We the People", and the liberties and freedoms it is a preamble to, should be applied to foreign nationals who have willfully violated US immigration laws (many multiple times), committed identity theft and fraud (at least), drive illegally and without insurance, send their non-English speaking children to American citizen taxpayer funded public schools, over-whelm American citizen taxpayer funded hospitals (particularly maternity wards), resist the fact that the US is an English speaking Nation, take up valuable space at US prisons after committing felony crimes, disrespectfully fly their nation's flags in place of the American flag, and demand from the US government amnesty and legal access to all sorts of welfare and other social programs, then the US is indeed in peril. Yes, peace is a wonderful thing, but if you think the road to peace is achieved by opening the Nation's door to every third world peasant who couldn't give a rip about the US Constitution while placing immense economic, social, and cultural burdens on an already fractured American society, then God help us because peace will be a distant memory in the balkanized, race- and ethno-focused, multi-culturally obsessed, and linguistically splintered reality that would result from your open borders, the hell with American culture and heritage, government uber alles, "progressive" (i.e., socialist) fantasy you and MEChA, La Raza, LULAC wet your pants for. You want to see hate? Check the the Atzlan websites, Steve. You want to see intolerance? Check the La Raza and MEChA websites.
Being passionate about the cohesion, stability, traditions, heritage, heroes, and institutions of America does not make me hateful, and frankly you're a absolute dolt if you disagree.
STEVE HILL on Sep 16, 2008 at 17:02:14 said:
I would lean toward the fact we are all one - HUMAN BEINGS on the same darn planet. We ALL should look out for eachother. That IS THE WAY....the real way AND THE ONLY WAY things will change. Starting with dropping the hatred first. And learning we are all one people of the same planet earth. Why hate something you didn't hate when you were 3 years old? IF people across the entire world want peace....WE THE PEOPLE...shall give ourselves PEACE. No one can do it for us. Broken promises mean nothing.
MdeG on Sep 16, 2008 at 13:41:28 said:
"As a fellow Christian?" Go read your Bible, my friend. How many times does it say "Remember you were slaves in Egypt?" How many times does it tell you to be hospitable to strangers? Review Hebrews 13:2 while you're about it.
Real studies (not NumbersUSA, which is linked to numerous hate groups) show that the crime rate among undocumented migrants is lower than that among the documented or the native-born.
As for reforming their countries -- That's easy for us to say here. We can try, and we'll be alive at the end of the attempt, however it turns out. That's not to be taken for granted in many places. I had a small political meeting at my house -- nothing particularly radical -- and one of the attenders, a young Haitian guy, said, "You know, we couldn't have a meeting like this where I come from. Soldiers or police could break into the house and shoot us for even talking like this."
There are lots of places in this world where trying to reform the system is a good way of getting yourself killed, especially if you are not elite.
There are people here who have committed crimes, and I acknowledge that it's legitimate to find them. However, in general I do not feel safer because of ICE, and I do not feel particularly at home with people who admire its work.
J Cir on Sep 16, 2008 at 13:34:10 said:
--- “My kids were the first thing I thought about,” says Pineda, who lives in the 10-person house with her husband, Roger Omar Cruz, 41, and their two children, Daniel, 7, and Keren, 2 years old.
If Ms. Pineda was indeed serious about the welfare of her three kids, she wouldn't have immigrated to the US illegally in the first place, knowlingly placing them at perpetual risk. If she is sincere about her kids well-being, she'll take them with her after she's deported.
All American citizens should hope and pray that the long-overdue actions on the part of ICE in that joke of a city known as San Francisco is a welcome sign signalling the end of so-called sanctuary (i.e., traitorous) cities in the US.
jwug on Sep 16, 2008 at 12:56:33 said:
One thing to remember in all of this is that many people would rather be in their home countries with their families. However, poverty and corruption often makes it almost impossible for them to sustain themselves or their families.
It's easy enough to say that the risk and hardship they endure on their way here as well as where they settle is their own choice and that they are breaking our laws by crossing our borders. However one thing missing so often from the immigration discussion today is the U.S. INVOLVEMENT in the situations that cause people to migrate. Our involvement in civil wars in Central America that funded corrupt police and overthrew democratically elected politicians. In El Salvador alone, the U.S. sent $1.5 in military aid PER DAY for 12 YEARS to fund a war against it's people which ravaged the country and devastated communities.
In more recent years our international trade policies such as NAFTA and CAFTA have made it so corn now costs more to grow than it does to buy, so many farmers can no longer support themselves. Meanwhile, those same trade agreements have caused many American workers to lose jobs as well. Maybe we have more in common than we think when it comes to root causes?
There is no doubt that the immigration situation in this country is a sticky one. But please take this into consideration:
THEY ARE HERE BECAUSE WE WERE/ARE THERE
Jeff on Sep 16, 2008 at 11:29:03 said:
Dear Illegal Aliens:
PLEASE GET THE BALLS TO GO HOME AND FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS THERE, INSTEAD OF DESTROYING AMERICA!
Illegal aliens kills 25 Americans everyday!
www.numbersusa.com-go there to stop the illegal alien invasion!
victor trent on Sep 16, 2008 at 11:16:55 said:
Maybe God wants these fine Christian people to go back to their own country and help reform it from all the corruption and crime and make it a place that people don't have to leave. But as a fellow Christian I have no sympathy for them, they broke our immigration laws and need to be deported.
vivian on Sep 16, 2008 at 07:17:15 said:
Illegal is illegal. There shouldn't be
sancuary for illegal acts.
ICE was in the right!
Mary on Sep 16, 2008 at 05:28:48 said:
Go, ICE, go!! America is very proud of you!! These people were all given an opportunity to leave our nation peacefully and they ignored it.
-->Whenever a city tries to enact laws to rid themselves of this scourge, the illegal alien supporters tell us we can't supercede federal law and yet, they think it's just fine to supercede federal law with their 'sanctuary' (help illegals break the laws of this nation) laws.
I think this is funny!! Keep up the good work ICE and don't quit till they're ALL gone!