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I'm sorry, I thought public safety was a universal issue.
Sure. But it's local jurisdiction in many/most cases. Except for kidnapping...that is federal because of the Lindbergh baby.
BTW cross states lines when committing one of the crimes you committed and you're now in federal territory.
Sure. But that generally is also a non-sequitur. If you kill Mike, and then flee to another state, that is not federal. The other state would catch you, and then an extradition hearing would be held to send you back to the original state of the crime. Feds really have nothing to do with it.
Sanctuary city policies are there because the democrats who run those towns don't like it when Republican administrations actually enforce the *national* laws.
As albaby has said, apparently they are -in most cases- not obligated to anyway. They have to honor federal warrants, but not "detainers". Certainly, states can help. But there is nothing illegal or unconstitutional about the sanctuary laws I have seen.
Either way it ends up the same place with ICE out on the streets looking for these people.
Which is sort of their job. The mess we have now is not because of sanctuary cities, but because ICE is using unlawful and excessive force. They've raided sweatshops and farms for decades. They have that authority, and responsibility. They should go back to doing that until we pass a law that puts the employers on the spot, not the migrants.
Ergo, if democrats really cared about public safety they'd want ICE picking up people from jail directly.
If they are already in jail, then they have to be adjudicated first. Once they get released from the jail, it's up to ICE to greet them at the gate (assuming it isn't a bail situation, in which case the issue has not yet been adjudicated).
Your insistence that Democrats want violent criminals on the street just isn't so. They have different ideas than you to accomplish NOT having violent criminals on the streets. Doesn't mean they want that.
ICE detainer requests are rooted in somebody getting on the radar screen by doing something bad. Like missing 17 straight check-ins. We have to have standards.
I will defer to albaby on this one, since I don't know this for a fact. However, I would guess that such behavior would generate a warrant. And those are honored/enforced.
Everything is up for discussion. Saying "End Of Discussion" doesn't mean it is. Do you tell your kids (or did you parents tell you) "because I said so"? That's not a valid reason, and not really a valid way of ending discussion. If Seattle wasn't honoring federal warrants, they'd be in a lot of trouble. Detain requests are a different animal (not issued by a judge?). You'll have to support your assertion with more than "end of discussion", sorry.
