{"id":345728,"date":"2018-01-28T07:20:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T06:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sessions-vows-to-issue-subpoenas-in-immigrant-demonizing-inquest-against-sanctuary-cities\/"},"modified":"2018-01-28T07:20:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T06:20:29","slug":"sessions-vows-to-issue-subpoenas-in-immigrant-demonizing-inquest-against-sanctuary-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sessions-vows-to-issue-subpoenas-in-immigrant-demonizing-inquest-against-sanctuary-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Sessions Vows to Issue Subpoenas in Immigrant-Demonizing Inquest Against “Sanctuary Cities”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"U.S.US Attorney General Jeff Sessions listens to remarks during an event November 17, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Alex Wong \/ Getty Images)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Justice Department is threatening to force three states and twenty cities to turn over records related to compliance with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n

Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent letters on Wednesday to officials from California, Oregon, Illinois, New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles, among others. Sessions\u00a0claimed<\/a>\u00a0he was seeking the information in the interest of “public safety.”<\/p>\n

“If these jurisdictions fail to respond to our request, fail to respond completely or fail to respond in a timely manner, we will exercise our lawful authorities and issue subpoenas for the information,” an anonymous department official told reporters on Wednesday, according to\u00a0Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The subpoena threats came after a previous round of letters. Thirty-eight jurisdictions were contacted over ICE cooperation policy in April and November last year, as\u00a0McClatchy<\/a>\u00a0reported. An anonymous “senior DOJ official” told the news service that recipients of Wednesday\u2019s letter “either did not respond or responded inadequately.” Other recipients of the first series of letters were either deemed compliant or are still being reviewed.<\/p>\n

Last year, Sessions ordered the department to withhold agency grants from so-called “sanctuary cities.” He was thwarted on numerous occasions. Federal District Courts in\u00a0Chicago<\/a>,\u00a0San Francisco<\/a>, and\u00a0Philadelphia<\/a>\u00a0ruled that the decree was illegal.<\/p>\n

Critics of mandated cooperation with ICE “argue that those policies can hurt public safety by making immigrants afraid to talk to police,” as\u00a0The Los Angeles Times<\/a>\u00a0noted Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Either way, there has been\u00a0no proven link<\/a>\u00a0between undocumented immigrants and crime. Some research has shown foreign-born US residents are\u00a0less likely<\/a>\u00a0to commit crimes\u00a0than their American-born neighbors.<\/p>\n

The term “sanctuary city” is also something of a misnomer. As Reuters\u00a0noted<\/a>, officials…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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US Attorney General Jeff Sessions listens to remarks during an event November 17, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Alex Wong \/ Getty Images) The Justice Department is threatening to force three states and twenty cities to turn over records related to compliance with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent letters on Wednesday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-345728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}