Sanctuary cities must end since they serve as havens for undocumented criminal immigrants.

Question

Sanctuary cities have to go. They are havens for illegal criminals

Answer 1

This claim is neither true or false and therefore is an opinion. A sanctuary city "refers to a policy that limits or defines the extent to which a local/state government will share information with federal immigration law officers." There is no direct correlation between sanctuary policies and increased crime rates. While there is no universal definition or set policies for the sanctuaries, the American Immigration Council reported that the policies generally fall under the following categories:

• policies restricting the ability of state and local police to make arrests for federal civil immigration violations, or to detain individuals on civil immigration warrants;  
• policies prohibiting “287(g)” agreements through which Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deputizes local law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration law; 
• policies that prevent local governments from entering into a contract with the federal government to hold immigrants in detention; 
• policies preventing immigration detention centers; 
• policies restricting the police or other city workers from asking about immigration status; 
• policies restricting the sharing of certain information on immigrants with the federal government; 
• policies restricting local police responses to federal immigration detainers; and 
• policies refusing to allow ICE into local jails without a judicial warrant.