Have you noticed that America's truly great cities tend to be those that are Sanctuary cities for immigrants?

Answer 1

I think your reminder to everybody that the great ship USA began with a boat (ship actually) loadful of European immigrants has fallen prey to a hostile audience..

I hope that was what you were intending to say.

Yes, you are right. New York is one

Lest we forget. Thanks for the reminder. Iin 2007 , some things have changed somehow..

Answer 2

New York is full of immigrants, and the parts full of immigrants are very low class and poor. New York is great because of lower Manhattan, which is not a place immigrants tend to hang out :) San Francisco is nice, except for the huge homeless population and endless ghettos. Again, the nice part of San Francisco is separated for the poorer parts where immigrants live. Sanctuary cities will ruin this nation and its identity, and sanctuary cities are run by democrats. See a trend here? :)

Answer 3

The most populated ones are, that's a given, isn't it? I know
that Portland, Oregon has a very sympathetic mayor and
governor. Mayor Tom Potter has made some very bold state-
ments indicating just how sympathetic he is. He tried some
interference when a packing house was raided by immigration agents and arrested a good majority of it's
workers one day. Then the media tried to jump on the wagon
and focus on one family who was seeing it's father deported.
They wanted the general population to feel for this and every
family that were facing deportation after all of the arrests.
No doubt the children of these families were all born in the US
and their mothers were allowed to remain to care for them.
I wish there was some way to reverse that law to children
becoming automatic US citizens upon their birth here, that
are born to illegal aliens, no matter what their country origin.
Washington States lady governor, is apparently also
sympathetic. She voted for the immigration law, and stuck
to her guns, when voters were trying to sway her with angry
protests. We need to to urge our neighbors to vote new
people into office the next election. Even if they have to write
in their own names, I swear. Where are the potential candidates that want the voice of our country's people to
ring loud and clear across this land? We want our country
back, and by gawd we'll have to take it back. Is there a
person who isn't more interested in lining their pockets with
corporate greed money? Where's a modern day "give em
hell, Harry" when we need one?

Answer 4

A pretty broad generalization, my friend.

There are lots of self-proclaimed "sanctuary cities" in the US, and some of them are less than great. City of Industry, California? Jersey City, NJ?

Being a great city doesn't tend to make it call itself a sanctuary, nor does being a sanctuary make a city great. Left-leaning people (of which I am usually one) tend to care about making their cities nice places to live, and they often also tend to have more sympathy for illegal immigrants. There's no causal connection.

Answer 5

Yes. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Diego, Miami, San Francisco, Denver, Baltimore, Minneapolis, Dallas-Ft Worth, Seattle, San Antonio, New Haven, Reno, The states of Maine and Oregon etc. etc.

Cities have no jurisdiction over immigration and have had their federal funding cut to the bone by the Bush administration. They used to spend billions of their taxpayer's money to train police in immigration and to chase and process illegal aliens.

So while they don't interfere with ICE's ODRO, they have just told the federal government to enforce its own laws, and leave the cities to enforce theirs.

Answer 6

Do you have any factual data to back that up?
I doubt it.

The city closest to me with the highest ratio of immigrants is Miami. It's a sewer. And it has the lowest per-capita income in the nation. Ever wonder about the riots in Miami in the 70's and 80's. A big part of the racial tension is Cuban illegals who come in and work for low wages, which displaces the local black population from those same jobs.

Los Angeles is another example:

"If one wishes to see America's future, he need only drive through L.A.
Sifting through the census data for the year 2000, three writers at the Los Angeles Times discovered the coming America in the sprawling county [Los Angeles] county, that has become a polygot nation, where extremes of wealth mirror that of th Third World.
Though America had just ended two of the most prosperous decades in its history, Los Angeles had become a separate nation. During the 1990s, poverty in Los Angeles County did not remain stable or decline, but shot up 28%.
By 2000, 1.6 million people in L.A. County lived beneath the poverty line.
In Orange County... the poverty rate had soared by 44%.
In... San Bernardino and Riverside counties.. poverty exploded by 51% and 63% respectively.
During the Reagan decade, median income in L.A. County rose by 21.5 %. But in the Clinton decade after, median income sank 8%, from $45,600 to $42,200.
In the city of Los Angeles, it fell even further. And the new California poverty was mirrored in the dramatic demographic shift.
During the 1990s, the Latino population of Los Angeles County rose by 27%, to 4.2 million; the asian population rose by 26%, but the "ango" population fell by 18 percent. Whites are fleeing California at a rate of 100,000 per year, and the black middle class is following. "
--Patrick Buchanan, STATE OF EMERGENCY, pages 46-47

Yeah, great cities, you bet.
I guess by "great" you mean "poor" and "crime-ridden".

Answer 7

AND WHAT ARE WE SMOKING TODAY? What "truly great
cities"? Have you been to NYC in the last thirty years?
If not , take a walk through Brooklin at about 3am, or Harlem,
or for that matter ANYWHERE EXCEPT MID-TOWN
MANHATTAN! And if that doesn't get your heart rate up,
try South Chicago, North Hartford, CT., Miami, anywhere
in LA you don't see armed storm troopers (private) guarding
the houses.
And if you can't find enough fun in this country, try some of the
"Diverse" European countries like Serbia, Bosnia, former
parts of the USSR, France, Germany. Those countries have had such a good time with immigration they are trying to close
their borders - but still calling US NAZIS!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 8

USA is a sanctuary for Immigrants.

Answer 9

Wasn't Tulsa once a sanctuary city. I guess they learned quick enough. LOL. What a change of attitude.

Why do public officials pass sanctuary laws or establish unwritten "don't ask--don't tell" policies? There are a variety of reasons: To appease illegal immigration support groups; buckling to political pressure from illegal alien support groups who lobby local governments to implement formal or informal sanctuary policies; political contributions and support at election time; complacency, ignorance, or "don't care" attitudes; and purposeful resistance to existing US immigration law based upon an open-border political philosophy that serves their economic, political, and cultural ethnocentric interests.

Sanctuary policies--official or otherwise, result in safe havens for illegal aliens and potential terrorists. Sanctuary policies allow criminal aliens to avoid deportation because they prevent local police from reporting alien criminals to ICE. Visit the Victims of Illegal Aliens Memorial and learn about some terrible consequences sanctuary policies and lax enforcement have had on American families.

What can you do?--Demand change! Call your members of Congress (House and Senate) and ask for aggressive interior enforcement of US immigration laws. At the state and local level, ask your public officials what your community's policies are in regards to illegal aliens. If your local government or state has an official or unofficial sanctuary policies, ask that they be repealed.

Is your city or county a sanctuary city? Check here: http://www.ojjpac.org/sanctuary.asp

And thank you, questioner, for bringing up the issue. Perhaps we can start up some justified indignation and grassroots anger here. Vote the bums OUT!

Answer 10

Define truly great cities