San Francisco: Sanctuary City

san francisco: What's at stake goes to the core of our American values of equality and decency, said Joe Curtatone, the mayor of Somerville, a city just three kilometres northwest of Boston that adopted official sanctuary status in 1987, according to CBC. Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone greets elders during a parade in the Massachusetts city, which has been a sanctuary city since 1987. The fight is about more than just money, say the mayors of cities like San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago, which protect undocumented immigrants from deportation either informally or as a matter of policy. City of Somerville About 400 jurisdictions across America have sanctuary policies, which are designed to limit co-operation with federal immigration officials and allow for the safe harbour of undocumented immigrants. Trump issued an executive order on Wednesday to pull millions of dollars in grants from local governments that fail to comply with federal immigration enforcement laws. Sanctuary ordinances might ban police from helping federal officers with immigration status checks, for example. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.