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The sanctuary movement in the United States began in the 1980s as a moral and humanitarian response to shield Central American refugees and later expanded to limit local involvement in federal immigration enforcement.
The sanctuary movement in the United States traces back to the 1980s when faith communities and a small set of municipalities began shielding Central American refugees and asserting city-level limits ...
A clear national tally is elusive because state laws have been passed in waves and federal agencies have produced competing lists, but reporting shows roughly a dozen states have enacted statutes that...
are not a uniform legal shield that prevents local authorities from arresting, reporting, or enabling the deportation of undocumented people accused of felonies; rather, most sanctuary jurisdictions l...
A broad body of empirical research finds that aggressive deportation programs and local “sanctuary” policies have had surprisingly small or nil effects on measured violent-crime rates: ramped-up remov...
Between 2009 and 2016 the immigrant‑rights movement moved from the mass marches and boycotts of into a more diffuse mix of local sanctuary campaigns, legal and administrative pressure around programs ...
Federal and state courts have repeatedly split over challenges to bans on : lower courts and several circuits have constrained the ’s effort to withhold grants from , the largely upheld a state ban, s...
A growing body of empirical research finds that do not increase local crime and in some studies are associated with modest , especially violent and property offenses . The leading explanation in the l...
in the are a patchwork: a handful of cities and some states have the most expansive non-cooperation rules, while many others adopt narrower, conditional limits on cooperation with federal immigration ...