Sanctuary Is Great As Long As Northern Cities Don't Have to Deal With the Issues

From Chicago Contrarian: Chicago's Sanctuary City Folly

First we get the history of the sanctuary movement dating back until the anti-war protests of the Vietnam era.

That brings us to present day, where Chicago's Mayor Groot Lightfoot is all in favor of sanctuary. Or she was, until Texas Governor Abbott decided to take her at her word.

Yet as more illegals arrived from Texas in the days following, Mayor Lightfoot’s righteous, pious mood quickly shifted to a mood of panic. No longer the masterpiece of dignity and composure, Lightfoot engaged in hysterical denunciations of Governor Abbott as “unpatriotic” and, expressing alarm, issued a plea for assistance from local civic organizations. Lightfoot then continued with a resounding rebuke of Abbott for declining to “coordinate” with Chicago officials prior to sending the immigrants north to Illinois.

Days later, in a twist worthy of a television drama, it was learned Lightfoot had quietly directed dozens of immigrant arrivals to suburban Burr Ridge. Lightfoot did so without giving advance notice to Burr Ridge officials.

When the total number of immigrants bused to Chicago hit 500, Lightfoot had Illinois Governor Fatso Pritzker declare a state of emergency. Which sort of reinforces what the border states have been saying.

Mayor Lightfoot celebrated Chicago’s standing as a sanctuary city until it became a problem. A victim of her own arrogance, from the moment she was sworn in as mayor, Ms. Lightfoot forcefully supported Chicago’s “sanctuary city” policy. As mayor, Lightfoot signed declarations which inaugurated one of the most aggressive “sanctuary” policies in the country by ending all cooperation with federal immigration authorities. However, when the model was tested with the arrival of illegal immigrants from Texas, Lightfoot learned it created a problem beyond her ability to solve.

There is more, and you should click thru. Of course Lightfoot isn't alone in this. Other mayors and governors are delighted to be sanctuary cities/states, as long as those pesky immigrants don't go places they are welcome, like Martha's Vineyard, which is all in favor of sanctuary, until immigrants actually arrive on their island. If that happens, they call in the military National Guard to remove them.