On Feb. 4, Donald Trump gave the final State of Union speech of his current term as president of the United States. He said many things I disagree with, but when he said, “In sanctuary cities, local officials order police to release dangerous criminal aliens to prey upon the public instead of handing them over to ICE to be safely removed,” I got really mad and offended.
As an immigrant myself living near Portland, a sanctuary city, I know this is not how sanctuary cities work. In a sanctuary city, they may have policies to help and protect undocumented immigrants from deportation or prosecution. But if an immigrant kills someone there, they won’t get away with it; the laws in sanctuary cities won’t cover the crime because it does not work the way Trump suggested in his speech.
