More Cities Go ‘Sanctuary’ in Rush to Defy Trump, Shield Illegal Aliens

Number reaches nearly 500.

Sanctuary cities have increased to nearly 500 thanks to a recent push in counties and jurisdictions avowed to shield illegal aliens against President Trump’s immigration policies.

According to The Washington Times, the Ohio Jobs & Justice Political Action Committee keeps a running list and has added over three dozen new cities just this year.

“More will be coming,” OJJ founder Steve Salvi promised. “A lot of communities now, there’s resolutions in the works and citizens groups encouraging city councils to pass them.”

There are cities on OJJ’s list which dispute their inclusion and some will soon be removed because their sanctuary status is about to change. The Times states two cities in Alaska, Dayton, Ohio, and Miami, Florida, most surprisingly, will soon be removed after confirmation with Homeland Security.

It only took one day after Trump’s threat to withhold federal funding from cities who harbor aliens for Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez to announce his city’s compliance with assisting federal agents with deportations.

According to the report, “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency that handled deportations, says 279 municipalities refused to cooperate on at least one case in fiscal 2016.”

“All told, those sanctuaries released more than 2,000 illegal immigrants back onto the streets that ICE agents had been trying to deport.”

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