What is a Sanctuary City?

A sanctuary city is a city, county, or state that limits its cooperation with federal immigration authorities, often by refusing to detain individuals solely based on their immigration status or by declining to share information with immigration officials about an individual's status.

In practice this means that if you witness a crime and call 911 OR are the victim of a crime and call 911 OR have a medical emergency and call 911, the responding police, EMTs or firefighters will NOT detain you and will NOT notify ICE of your existence.

Reseach shows that sanctuary cities correlate to less crime as victims and witnesses of crime are less likely to avoid notifying the police, like say a domestic violence situation or a mugging. More notice to the police results in fewer criminals on the streets committing crimes. The opposite, of course, means a non-sanctuary city will have higher crime rates due to a fearful communuity.

Just, yet another example of magat scum actually supporting crime.