ICE

The battle between sanctuary cites and ICE can best be seen by looking at NY City where there are 759,218 migrants of which 58,626 are convicted criminals of which 1,053 are gang members. They mayor wants to work with ICE to pick up and deport the convicted criminals but the city council refuses to undo the sanctuary city status. This means that the city police are prohibited from helping ICE find these criminals. After 9-11 it was revealed that the CIA and FBI were not cooperating because of territorial disputes and this led to the inability to uncover the fact that these terrorist were training to be pilots. Now we have local and federal government agencies squabbling and making it difficult to enforce the laws. There are over 600 sanctuary jurisdictions of various sizes across the country so this is no small problem. If and when this is resolved it can open the door to a nation wide program of deporting all migrant who are convicted criminals along with all gang members which when the border is closed can lead to a different way of dealing with the remaining migrants. One suggestion is to look first at the 1.2 million migrants who have been through the courts and denied amnesty while simultaneously finding the 300,000 lost children. The last step will be to offer work permits to those who remain which will contain the promise of green cards based on conditions like not committing crimes, paying taxes and learning English.