Exclusive--Wilcox: America's 10 Most Dangerous Sanctuary Cities

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% :The state of Oregon last year passed the "Sanctuary Promise Act," which further enhanced the state's sanctuary status, and added more restrictions to prevent state and local officials from cooperating with immigration enforcement.
53% : In 2018, shortly after Sheriff Gerald Baker took office, 16 foreign nationals under ICE detainers were released from the county's jails.
49% : U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offers a U visa as a set-aside for victims of certain crimes who have suffered abuse and then are helpful to law enforcement in an investigation.
48% : "When a law enforcement agency fails to honor these immigration detainers and releases serious criminal offenders back onto the streets, it undermines our ability to protect public safety and carry out our national security mission," Dave Marin, ICE's ERO Los Angeles Field Office Director said.
47% : U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who represents New York's 14th district in the city, has called for the abolishment of ICE and described border detention facilities as "concentration camps."
47% : According to ICE, local authorities across the state of North Carolina refused to honor nearly 500 detainers in 2019.
43% : ""Sanctuary policies only provide sanctuary to criminals, not to immigrant communities," said Tom Homan, IRLI senior fellow and former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
43% :ICE arrested 88 illegal aliens in the Chicago area in a massive sweep in 2020.
43% : Prior to the passage of SB 54 making California a sanctuary state, the San Francisco Sheriff's Department refused to honor over 530 immigration holds, 345 of which ICE classified as threat level 1 and 2 offenses.
43% : Many of those with ICE detainers were charged with heinous crimes, including first-degree rape of a child, indecent liberties with a child, and felony possession of a Schedule I controlled substance, among others.
42% : In 2020, ICE removed 39 Somali nationals from the Minneapolis area, 36 of whom had criminal backgrounds.
42% : ICE announced in 2019 that Wake County criminal offenders were being shielded because the county was refusing to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
41% : IRLI's investigation found that the Middlesex County Jail refused to honor 92 immigration holds over a 20-month period, 52 of which were classified by ICE as Level 1 and Level 2 offenses.
40% :ICE issued subpoenas in January 2020 to obtain information about criminal illegal aliens being shielded by New York City officials.
39% : Your city is on your side, and rest assured, here in Los Angeles we are not coordinating with ICE," Garcetti said.
38% : Boudin and his allies lashed out at ICE for doing its job when its agents arrested three illegal aliens outside a San Francisco courthouse in 2020.
37% : In the midst of the city's historic crime surge, Lightfoot signed a city ordinance which prohibited city officials from cooperating with ICE to detain illegal aliens, even if the alien is in the city's gang database or is facing criminal charges.
37% : Breed replaced him with Brooke Jenkins, a critic of Boudin who has promised a better balance of law enforcement and criminal justice reforms.
36% : Also that year, ICE lodged an immigration detainer on a Salvadoran national serving time for a murder conviction.
36% : In fiscal year 2019, ICE wanted to arrest 11,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles, but only five percent were turned over.
36% : That same year, ICE blasted Baker after he released a registered sex offender who was in the country illegally.
36% :ICE issued subpoenas in 2020 to demand information about criminal illegal aliens that Portland was harboring.
35% : In 2017, ICE arrested 36 criminal illegal aliens in Middlesex County who had previously been released from local prisons back into the community.
35% : The law prohibits local law enforcement and other public entities from gathering and sharing immigration information with federal immigration authorities or otherwise assisting immigration law enforcement.
34% : ICE classified over 40 of them as threat level 1 and 2 offenses, of which 26 percent of the detainer requests were for criminal illegal aliens from Somalia.
34% : An IRLI investigation found a rise in overall violent crime the year after Baker cancelled the cooperation agreement between ICE and the county to remove criminal aliens from the community.
33% :ICE arrested a 40-year-old citizen of El Salvador in 2020 who had been released onto the streets despite being convicted of first-degree murder in 2009.
33% : In 2020, ICE released a scathing statement criticizing the city's refusal to honor an ICE detainer on a 36-year-old Mexican national with a lengthy criminal history, which included arrests for assault, terroristic threats, and robbery, among other crimes.
32% :Sanctuary communities refuse to cooperate with ICE to remove dangerous criminal aliens.
26% : Roy Cooper, the state's Democratic governor, vetoed a bill that would've cracked down on sanctuary counties.
24% : When President Donald Trump threatened to bus illegal aliens to sanctuary cities in 2019, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said he would welcome them.

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