Abbott goes after browms

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Texas Republicans Add College, University Campuses to "Sanctuary Cities" Crackdown


Texas Republicans on Wednesday unveiled the newest version of their proposal to crack down on so-called "sanctuary cities," adding college and university police departments to the list of agencies that would not be allowed to stop officers from asking about immigration status in routine police encounters.

Several members of the Texas Senate's GOP caucus lined up behind Sen. Charles Perry as he repeated numerous times that the purpose of his bill is to maintain "the rule of law."

The addition of campus police departments to Perry's proposal comes just one day after Gov. Greg Abbott, in his state of the state address, named "sanctuary cities" one of the emergency items he's picked to fast-track through the legislature.

http://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/a...ties-crackdown

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No funds for "sanctuary city" Austin, says Texas governor

AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott blocked funding over so-called “sanctuary cities” for the first time Wednesday after Austin’s sheriff said the city’s jails would no longer honor most federal immigration detainers.

The move begins a crackdown Abbott wants in Texas over criminal suspects who are in the country illegally, which comes as he pushes to sign new laws that could go even further than President Donald Trump’s new executive actions against sanctuary policies.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sanctuary-city-austin-funding-greg-abbott-texas-governor/

btw, TX budget is $6B short, which is about how much Repugs have cut in taxes the past couple years.

TX is 5th state from the bottom in spending per capita

https://ballotpedia.org/Total_state_government_expenditures

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Hours before Senate vote, Texas Attorney General calls controversial immigration bill legal

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton attempted to ease concerns over whether a measure that would punish "sanctuary cities" and campuses could be successfully challenged in court.

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/02...igration-bill/

[UNT Eagles 2016]

Good for him. Get rid of the skin messican moochers or get them to work. Deport the leeches. Drain the swamp...

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Myth-Busting Immigration Detainers: They’re Optional, Costly and Rarely Lead to Deportation

In 2015, federal authorities never followed up on 62 percent of immigration detainers issued to local jails. Overall, only 15 percent of detainers led to deportations.

Currently, more than 300 local law enforcement agencies in the U.S. have vowed to limit cooperation with immigration detainers, arguably making them ‘sanctuaries.’

How many detainers does ICE issue?

ICE issued about 95,000 detainers nationwide in 2015, including 21,000 in Texas — 22 percent of the total.

The use of detainers peaked in 2011, when ICE issued nearly 310,000 of the do ents, including about 52,000 in Texas.

Under President Trump, numbers are expected to e again.

If an immigrant has a detainer placed on them, does that mean they will be deported?

Generally, no. In recent years, only 15 percent of immigration detainers resulted in deportation nationwide.

About half the time, ICE agents never arrived to take the person into custody, effectively issuing the request without following up.

In 2015, ICE did not follow up on 62 percent of detainers. One reason detainers do not result in deportation is administrative error: In some cases, ICE has mixed up identifying information and placed detainers on U.S. citizens.

What does it cost jails to comply with ICE detainers?

The “associated costs” for honoring immigration detainers in Texas county jails added up to more than $60,000,000 in 2015,

according to a report from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards.

https://www.texasobserver.org/immigr...ctuary-cities/

Will Abbott be a stand-up guy and pay the costs of cities holding detainees?

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Restaurants around nation join sanctuary movement to protect workers, customers

The Sanctuary Restaurants Movement aims to offer safe and tolerant spaces to restaurant workers, employers, and consumers that face hate and harassment

Numerous restaurants across the country have joined a Sanctuary Restaurants Movement to offer safe and tolerant spaces to restaurant workers, employers, and consumers that face hate and harassment in the restaurant industry.

As a collaborative project between the Restaurant Opportunities Center United (ROC United) and Presente.org, the Sanctuary Restaurant Movement seeks to not only create solidarity, but also to provide support and resources like job training and legal advice to individuals and their families impacted by hostile policies.

“We are launching Sanctuary Restaurants because restaurant workers are on the front lines of discrimination and hate in America,” says Saru Jayaraman, Co-founder and Co-director of ROC United in a Presente.org press release.

”While the restaurant industry suffers from a labor shortage, anti-immigrant and sexist rhetoric is now commonplace. Sanctuary Restaurants seeks to create the world we want—establishments free from hate and discrimination.”

With a zero-tolerance policy for sexism, racism, and xenophobia, members of the Sanctuary Movement believe that there is a place at the table for all.

According to the movement’s website, participating restaurants do not allow for the harassment of any individual based on nationality, refugee status, religion, race, gender, gender iden y or expression, or sexual orientation.

According to Matt Nelson, Executive Director of Presente.org, “The Sanctuary Restaurant Movement will provide protections for targeted workers and elevate and celebrate restaurants that commit to resist the draconian, anti-immigration efforts of the incoming administration.”

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Th...kers-customers

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Restaurants around nation join sanctuary movement to protect workers, customers

Of course they're just as illegal as the illegals they illegally hire.

Try making a successful business by obeying the law. The market will render it's judgment.

[Splits]

I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

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Restaurants around nation join sanctuary movement to protect workers, customers

The Sanctuary Restaurants Movement aims to offer safe and tolerant spaces to restaurant workers, employers, and consumers that face hate and harassment

Numerous restaurants across the country have joined a Sanctuary Restaurants Movement to offer safe and tolerant spaces to restaurant workers, employers, and consumers that face hate and harassment in the restaurant industry.

As a collaborative project between the Restaurant Opportunities Center United (ROC United) and Presente.org, the Sanctuary Restaurant Movement seeks to not only create solidarity, but also to provide support and resources like job training and legal advice to individuals and their families impacted by hostile policies.

“We are launching Sanctuary Restaurants because restaurant workers are on the front lines of discrimination and hate in America,” says Saru Jayaraman, Co-founder and Co-director of ROC United in a Presente.org press release.

”While the restaurant industry suffers from a labor shortage, anti-immigrant and sexist rhetoric is now commonplace. Sanctuary Restaurants seeks to create the world we want—establishments free from hate and discrimination.”

With a zero-tolerance policy for sexism, racism, and xenophobia, members of the Sanctuary Movement believe that there is a place at the table for all.

According to the movement’s website, participating restaurants do not allow for the harassment of any individual based on nationality, refugee status, religion, race, gender, gender iden y or expression, or sexual orientation.

According to Matt Nelson, Executive Director of Presente.org, “The Sanctuary Restaurant Movement will provide protections for targeted workers and elevate and celebrate restaurants that commit to resist the draconian, anti-immigration efforts of the incoming administration.”

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Th...kers-customers

What a brilliant idea. The restaurant owners hiring illegals are a huge part of the problem. Now they'll expose themselves and the government can fine them for hiring illegals and deport the ones they hired. Smarter restaurant owners will keep quiet and continue paying the cheap labor.

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Trump administration directs Border Patrol, ICE to expand deportations

The Trump administration on Tuesday moved one step closer to implementing the president’s plans to aggressively rid the country of undo ented immigrants and expand local police-based enforcement of border security operations.

“With extremely limited exceptions, DHS will not exempt classes or categories of removal aliens from potential enforcement. All of those in violation of the immigration laws may be subject to enforcement proceedings, up to and including removal from the United States,” the fact sheet explains. “The guidance makes clear, however, that ICE should prioritize several categories of removable aliens who have committed crimes, beginning with those convicted of a criminal offense.”

The memo did not include instructions to halt the 2012 executive action called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, which has allowed about 750,000 undo ented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children to live and work in the country legally.

The guidelines also state that the Department of Homeland Security has authority to expedite the removal of undo ented immigrants who have been in the country illegally for at least two years, a departure from the Obama administration's approach of concentrating mainly on newly arriving immigrants.

“To date, expedited removal has been exercised only for aliens encountered within 100 air miles of the border and 14 days of entry, and aliens who arrived in the United States by sea other than at a port of entry,” the agency states.

The action also seeks to expand a police-based immigration enforcement program known as 287(g), which allows local and state officers to perform immigration duties if they undergo the requisite training. The program fell out of favor under the Obama administration after Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced in 2012 that it wouldn’t renew contracts that were in place at the time.

“Empowering state and local law enforcement agencies to assist in the enforcement of federal immigration law is critical to an effective enforcement strategy, and CBP and ICE will work with interested and eligible jurisdictions,"

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/02...ation-efforts/

Job creation: 15K more ICE/DHS/BP brown shirts to be hired

Trash/Bannon ShutzStaffel unleashed, it's gonna be very ugly

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Jeff Sessions announces sanctuary-city crackdown, which most Americans oppose — a distraction from Trumpcare disaster?


Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump administration will bar cities, counties and states that don’t fully cooperate with federal immigration authorities from receiving federal law enforcement funding from the Justice Department.

Sessions threatened to strip some “sanctuary cities” of coveted Justice Department grants for state and local law enforcement.
The crackdown comes as the Trump White House says it will reach out to Democrats to try to win votes on Trump agenda items — and after the president complained that no Democrats would back his failed health care legislation.
“Today I’m urging states and local jurisdictions to comply with these federal laws, including 8 U.S. Code 1373,” Sessions explained, as Stephen Miller, Trump’s senior adviser and a former Sessions staffer, stood by his side. That law states that no government en y can restrict sharing information with the Immigration and Naturalization Service regarding individuals’ citizenship or immigration status. Sessions asked so-called sanctuary cities to “consider carefully” the damage they are doing to national security and public safety by refusing to enforce immigration laws.
“Countless Americans would be alive today … if these policies of sanctuary cities were ended,” he said. “Failure to deport aliens who are convicted of criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk.”

http://www.salon.com/2017/03/27/jeff...pcare-failure/

racist Sessions is lying.

There is no carnage in sanctuary cities from immigrants.

Immigrants commit less crime than non-immigrants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vypzrtAHyXk




http://www.salon.com/2017/03/27/jeff...pcare-failure/

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Valeria Luiselli’s ‘Tell Me How It Ends’ Is the First Must-Read Book of the Trump Era

The Mexican novelist writes that asylum-seekers come to the U.S. not in search of the American dream, but “to wake up from the nightmare into which they were born.”

https://www.texasobserver.org/tell-m...nds-luisellis/

... nighmares significantly created, fueled by St Ronnie The Diseased, Repugs, and BigCorp/NAFTA ing around south of the border.

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AG Sessions Threat to Withhold Funds to Sanctuary Cities is Likely Illegal– But It May Work

if Sessions is forced to follow through on this threat,

any such action may uncons utionally violate both states’ rights and Congress’ rights, and

the sanctuary behavior about which he complained may not even violate the very statute he cites.

Nevertheless, in part because cities may have difficulty obtaining a prompt judicial ruling on the cons utionality of the threatening statement, or

even of a specific threat to cut off funding for an individual named city, and

because of the huge financial risks, legal costs, and uncertainty of challenging governmental actions,

many additional jurisdictions – despite their defiant claims to do without federal funding – are likely to cave in.


http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/ag-s...t-it-may-work/