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Its painful to see our own sheriff pointing to an incident when an immigrant committed a crime and using that to slander by implication all undocumented immigrants and call sanctuary cities bad business. If he has been in law enforcement as he claims, he has seen a lot more crime committed by US citizens.

Criminals are the problem, not sanctuary cities, and most of the criminals are US citizens. We have more people in prison than any country in the world. Sanctuary cities are not saying that they will tolerate serious criminals and the sheriff knows it. He admitted in the meeting that he knows of no sanctuary city that has that policy.

Why would the sheriff choose to scapegoat immigrants other than for political reasons, to show that he is a tough sheriff, at the expense of ruining the lives of hard working recent immigrants?

For me personally, its painful to see recent immigrants and refugees scapegoated, as if attacking and getting rid of law abiding hard working people will solve all of our problems. The crime rate among immigrants is about half the crime rate for US citizens. These are not the people who have outsourced or automated our jobs or caused the recent sub prime mortgage financial collapse. Economic analysis shows that these recent immigrants benefit our economy.

The argument that they are somehow bad because they are undocumented and therefor illegal is truly offensive in a nation that has thrived as a nation of immigrants. Morally, no human being should be deemed illegal. This wasnt always the case. The Holocaust was entirely legal. 6 million Jews and about 5 million other innocent men women and children were brutally murdered and almost no on went to prison or was charged with a crime. The 11 million murdered civilians were deemed illegal.

We have not had a rational, effective immigration policy. The history of our immigration policy is a history of a policy based on discrimination. This great country has benefited all of us, since we or our families all came here as refugees or as economic migrants. I would hope that, in time of need, we will want to provide a safe harbor to others.

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