Sanctuary cities are not a clearly defined or agreed upon term, but they do represent a city that has chosen not to comply with federal ICE requests regarding illegal immigrants. Some argue that states have the right to make this choice because they are covered by the tenth amendment and others say that sanctuary cities are safer. However, that is simply not a sustainable reason to break the law, or allow law breakers to remain living within a city. 

Just by the shear concept of sanctuary cities, there is inherently more crime because of the number of people that flock to live in the city without fear of #deportation, even though they have entered the country illegally.

In regards to the argument that states and localities should be able to determine for themselves whether they want to be sanctuary cities, there is also the matter to consider that immigrants have not entered the state illegally, but the country. This is an area which should be considered federal jurisdiction. 

The policies enforced in sanctuary cities prevent local and state police from doing their job by allowing illegal immigrants to remain without the enforcement of immigration policy. Many argue that if illegal immigrants were arrested for their crime of entering the country illegally, we should prevent further violent crimes from being committed. While advocates of sanctuary cities argue that they reduce crime and create safer cities, the truth is that they actually make cities more dangerous by allowing arrested felons to remain in the community.  

Under the old administration of President Trump, cities had been encouraged to halt any sanctuary city policies and work with the federal #ICE agents to secure borders and remove illegal immigrants from the country. Not only does non-compliance with the policies send an unclear message as a country, but it confuses immigrants and citizens as to what officers and law enforcement entities are enforcing what policies. 

As a country we must stand up for our immigration policies and operate under one clear policy for enforcing immigration. If states and local governments enforce different policies, then there is no clear direction for the enforcement of immigration. The lack of clear direction leaves the country and these specific sanctuary cities in fraction of what they should enforce and what they should not.