Dallas County passes resolution welcoming unauthorized immigrants

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Immigrant advocates packed a Dallas County commissioners meeting Tuesday, turning a vote welcoming unauthorized immigrants into hours of emotional, sometimes tense debate over so-called sanctuary cities.
The "Welcoming Communities" resolution, which is not legally binding, passed 4-1. The commission's sole Republican, Commissioner Mike Cantrell, voted against it.
The symbolic resolution says that unauthorized immigrants are "integral members to our community." It calls for local law enforcement to "end nonessential collaborations" with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Cantrell said that language "paints a bull's-eye on Dallas County" for President Donald Trump and Gov. Greg Abbott to take away federal and state funding that the county needs. Both Trump and Abbott have called for punishing sanctuary cities, a loose term that they have used to describe jurisdictions that don't fully cooperate with ICE.
"This is a resolution that supports open borders and will label Dallas County as a sanctuary county," Cantrell said. "This resolution is nothing more than pitching a personal and political agenda."

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Gov. Abbott threatens to 'bring the hammer down on Dallas County' over immigration
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Updated at 9:30 a.m. Feb. 9: Revised to include prepared statement from U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions.
AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday threatened to "bring the hammer down on Dallas County" if it acts on its new resolution welcoming unauthorized immigrants.
The symbolic resolution that Dallas County commissioners approved Tuesday may have put a chunk of its budget squarely in the cross hairs of Republican lawmakers in Austin and Washington who are determined to outlaw so-called sanctuary cities in Texas.
The commissioners essentially thumbed their noses at GOP state leaders' anti-sanctuary efforts, calling on local law enforcement agencies to "end nonessential collaborations with Immigration and Customs Enforcement."
"If anybody acts on that resolution to make Dallas a sanctuary city, if any sanctuary city policy is implemented in any way, the hammer will come down on them," Abbott said.

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Texas Senate approves measure to cut funds for sanctuary cities

AUSTIN — Texas governmental agencies that refuse to enforce federal immigration laws would lose millions in state grant funds and face thousands in fines under a bill the Texas Senate approved on a preliminary vote Tuesday.
If the bill becomes law, officials who promote so-called sanctuary policies could face jail time.

[Gargamel]

Bringeth Down the Mighty Hammer!

[GhostTX]

Love how Dems/Libs like to choose which laws they get to obey.

[AnthonyS]

Love how Dems/Libs like to choose which laws they get to obey.

What do you expect from socialists?

[Gasser64]

Bringeth Down the Mighty Hammer!

The ban hammer. Will dallas ever rid itself of these democrats?

[The King]

Dallas (to me) has always seemed to be a city that identifies with the northeastern U.S. more so than Texas. It could be picked up and placed in New Jersey and would be much the same as it is here.

[GhostTX]

Dallas (to me) has always seemed to be a city that identifies with the northeastern U.S. more so than Texas. It could be picked up and placed in New Jersey and would be much the same as it is here.

Dallas, Austin, Houston, San Antonio (well, it'd bump the Mexican ratio)...

[Chili]

Love how Dems/Libs like to choose which laws they get to obey.

We all do man.. Every single one of us. Our line is just in different places.

[GhostTX]

We all do man.. Every single one of us. Our line is just in different places.

Ya, and pay the piper without whining when you get caught. "They" think it just doesn't apply to them because feelings.

[Chili]

Ya, and pay the piper without whining when you get caught. "They" think it just doesn't apply to them because feelings.

Agreed..

[The King]

Dallas, Austin, Houston, San Antonio (well, it'd bump the Mexican ratio)...

The Mexican influence in San Antonio is a good thing though, and is an important part of what makes that a great city in my opinion.

Houston I know nothing about.

Austin leans toward the left coast more and more, and not in a good way.

[GhostTX]

The Mexican influence in San Antonio is a good thing though, and is an important part of what makes that a great city in my opinion.

Houston I know nothing about.

Austin leans toward the left coast more and more, and not in a good way.

Mexican culture = good in SA. Illegal democrat voting machine = bad.
Houston got forever lost after the NOLA migration.
Austin is CA transplants.
Dallas, thank Wiley and his ilk, IMO.

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1st of all Mexicans are not the problem....nor any other peoples. The U.S.A. is choosing to deviate from we, the people's, laws. The corruption in the government is the problem. Evidence to this is that Washington and California, along with cities like Dallas, are saying illegal immigration is okay...which flies in the face of federal law. Immigration is not up to the cities and states. It's up to the federal government. A case in point would be when Obama sued Arizona. Arizona was not allowed to do the fed govt.'s job. I, for one, do not believe in open borders; not in this day and age. Mexico is a narco-state and now it's here.


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