Illegal Immigration

[LadyForCamus]

Despite all that has been said, the question remains "should we control immigration into the US"?  If so, we need to have effective laws, systems and enforcement.  Our current system is obviously ineffective.  It's not California's job to enforce the borders, but it also neglecting the well-being of it's citizens by protecting known criminals simply because they are undocumented immigrants, especially when they don't do the same for documented immigrants and citizens.  In many cases, if the Feds are after a known criminal who is a citizen, California will co-operate, but if the criminal is undocumented they will not.  Sanctuary cities do not protect criminal citizens - only undocumented criminals.  Whatever the crime rate is for immigrants, we need to know who is crossing our borders folks.

'A 2017 review study of the existing literature noted that the existing studies had found that sanctuary cities either have no impact on crime or that they lower the crime rate.[5] A second 2017 study in the journal Urban Affairs Review found that sanctuary policy itself has no statistically meaningful effect on crime.[64][3][65][66][67] The findings of the study were misinterpreted by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a July 2017 speech when he claimed that the study showed that sanctuary cities were more prone to crime than cities without sanctuary policies.[68][69] A third study in the journal Justice Quarterly found evidence that the adoption of sanctuary policies reduced the robbery rate but had no impact on the homicide rate except in cities with larger Mexican undocumented immigrant populations which had lower rates of homicide.[70]

According to a study by Tom K. Wong, associate professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego, published by the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank: "Crime is statistically significantly lower in sanctuary counties compared to nonsanctuary counties. Moreover, economies are stronger in sanctuary counties – from higher median household income, less poverty, and less reliance on public assistance to higher labor force participation, higher employment-to-population ratios, and lower unemployment."[4] The study also concluded that sanctuary cities build trust between local law enforcement and the community, which enhances public safety overall.[71] The study evaluated sanctuary and non-sanctuary cities while controlling for differences in population, the foreign-born percentage of the population, and the percentage of the population that is Latino."[4]'

This bit kind of stands out:

'A third study in the journal Justice Quarterly found evidence that the adoption of sanctuary policies reduced the robbery rate but had no impact on the homicide rate except in cities with larger Mexican undocumented immigrant populations which had lower rates of homicide.'

Overall, it would seem that being in a sanctuary city reduces your chances of being the victim of a crime.

Boru

Again, with those annoying ‘fact’ thingies.