Sec. John Kelly: ‘Sanctuary Cities... Make Our Communities Less Safe’

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KELLY: "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The word sanctuary calls to mind someplace safe, but too often, for families and victims affected by illegal immigrant crime, sanctuary cities are anything but safe. Instead, these cities are places that allow some criminals to go free undermine federal law enforcement and make our communities less safe. When sanctuary jurisdiction fails to honor and ICE detainer and instead releases a criminal back to the streets, it doesn't mean ICE stops looking for the bad guy, instead it means that ICE has to take its targeted operations out of the safe, secure, and private confines of a jail and go into neighborhoods, businesses, and other public places. That's infinitely more dangerous for the law abiding public and for my ICE officers and it creates unnecessary and avoidable anxiety for many in the legal immigrant community."