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Fri Jul 10 13:55:36

Ben Carson: Trump's Right on Illegals, So 'No Sanctuary Cities'

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson agrees with Donald Trump that sanctuary cities — which prohibit the use of municipal funds to enforce federal immigration laws and do not allow police to ask about a person’s immigration status — should be outlawed.

"No sanctuary cities," the retired pediatric neurosurgeon told a crowd during a Politics & Eggs campaign event Tuesday at the Village Inn in Bedford, New Hampshire, The Daily Signal reports. "I think that’s ridiculous.

"You have to turn off the spigot that dispenses the goodies," he said, referring to government handouts to illegals. "If there’s nothing for them to come here for, they’re not going to risk coming in here."

The topic of sanctuary cities has been in the forefront since Monday’s arrest of Francisco Sanchez, an illegal immigrant who has seven felony convictions and has been deported five times but repeatedly returned to the U.S., according to The Guardian.

Sanchez, 45, is charged with murder in the shooting death of 32-year-old Kate Steinle as she walked along San Francisco’s Pier 14 with her father.

ABC News reported that Sanchez has served federal prison time and was on probation in Texas at the time of the shooting. He told a local ABC affiliate that he kept sneaking back into the U.S. from his native Mexico to look for work and that he knew San Francisco was a sanctuary city.

In March, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) turned Sanchez, a repeat drug offender, over to San Francisco authorities and requested that ICE be notified prior to Sanchez’s release so they could take custody.

The San Francisco Sheriff’s Department dropped the drug charges against Sanchez and let him go without alerting immigration officials.

Real estate mogul and GOP presidential candidate Trump ignited a firestorm of controversy during his June 16 announcement when he characterized Mexicans who come to the U.S. illegally as rapists, drug-runners and criminals.

Despite the backlash — several corporations have cut ties with him — Trump is not backing down.

In New Hampshire on Tuesday, Carson said Trump’s delivery "is perhaps a little inflammatory," but the message is spot on. Carson said he too has been known to be incendiary, but has worked on dialing it down.

"I learned that a few months ago, to tone down the rhetoric," he said. "That’s why you haven’t heard me do that much lately because I want people to hear what I’m saying."

Trump speaks the truth, Carson told reporters covering the New Hampshire event, and his brash style is his trademark, The Boston Herald reported.

"He is who he is," said Carson. "Could you imagine a Donald Trump who’s, like, nice, mild-mannered and says everything in a very peaceful — it wouldn’t be Donald Trump."


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Fri Jul 10 13:58:17

Forwyn
Member Fri Jul 10 13:44:02
Who's going to outlaw cities spending municipal funds how they wish?



The federal government?
MrPresident07
Member Fri Jul 10 13:47:43
The issue here is that people are only viewing this from one side. "Sanctuary cities" actually started as a way for illegals to report crime. You come forward and report a crime or testify and we promise not to deport you. Maybe somebody can dig up some stats on the effect this has had on crime or solving crime. I'm not saying it's absolutely right, but there is a perspective we should keep here. It's not the municipality's job/role to enforce the border. It's the federal government's.

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Fri Jul 10 16:10:26

Aeros
Member Fri Jul 10 15:44:45
States and Municipalities are not the ones who are supposed to be controlling immigration. They have to deal with the realities on the ground in their own jurisdictions, and that means dealing with all these new residents. They may be illegal, but they are working in these areas anyway, they have kids, and life goes on. The States and Cities could either pretend its not going on, or figure out ways to tax the working income and find a way to pay for their American Citizen kids to get their mandatory public education.

The immigration issue is no less complicated then it was in the 19th century, and honestly no less stupid. We could be like Europe, and try and alienate these populations, or we could do like we have always done, integrate, co-opt, and absorb. Its not so long ago that Irish were our modern day Mexicans after all.

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