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(07-22-2019, 11:56 AM)somenole Wrote: (07-22-2019, 11:06 AM)zigbee Wrote: (07-22-2019, 10:47 AM)somenole Wrote: Many Dems want to fund solutions in Central America that are exacerbating the exodus.
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Seems encouraging them to come here with protection in sanctuary cities and free health care etc is exacerbating the exodus. Â
https://cis.org/Stop-Sanctuary-Cities
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/f...cidivists/
That seems to be a chicken or egg argument. Sanctuary cities are a relatively new phenomena but Central Americans have been coming to America for decades.
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The movement that established sanctuary cities in the United States began in the early 1980s. The movement traces its roots to religious philosophy, as well as the histories of resistance movements to perceived state injustices.[18] The sanctuary city movement took place in the 1980's to challenge the US governmentâ€s refusal to grant asylum to certain Central American refugees.[19] These asylum seekers were arriving from countries in Central America like El Salvador and Guatemala that were politically unstable. More than 75,000 Salvadoreans and 200,000 Guatemalans were killed by their governments in efforts to suppress the communist movement in those countries at the time.[20] Faith based groups in the US Southwest initially drove the movement of the 1980's, with eight churches publicly declaring to be sanctuaries in March 1982.[21] John Fife, a minister and movement leader, famously wrote in a letter to Attorney General William Smith; "the South-side United Presbyterian Church will publicly violate the Immigration and Nationality Act by allowing sanctuary in its church for those from Central America."[22]
A milestone in the U.S. sanctuary city movement occurred in 1985 in San Francisco, which passed the largely symbolic “City of Refuge†resolution. The resolution was followed the same year by an ordinance which prohibited the use of city funds and resources to assist federal immigration enforcement–the defining characteristic of a sanctuary city in the U.S.[23] As of 2018 more than 560 cities, states and counties considered themselves sanctuaries.[4]
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The new phenomena that I spoke of was the open resistance since Trump was elected. Since he has made it; curbing immigration and deporting illegal immigrants, a focal point of his domestic policy.
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(07-22-2019, 03:19 PM)somenole Wrote: The new phenomena that I spoke of was the open resistance since Trump was elected. Since he has made it; curbing immigration and deporting illegal immigrants, a focal point of his domestic policy.
Hmmmm, seems article two of the constitution empowers his office with enforcing laws....hmmmmm . Open resistance to the executive officer elected to carry out laws....hmmmmmmm. Wonder why there wasn't resistance when Obama was enforcing laws like this?
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I was in Central America and the CIA dudes were there. This was in the 1980's. I'm not sure the dudes were doing anything other protecting the drug routes. The CIA dudes in Afghanistan are doing the same thing - protecting drug routes.
DC is a symptom, not the cause. The cause is basic voter stupidity and economic ignorance.