Half Of Americans Live In Areas That Protect Illegal Immigrants

This is insanely depressing.

According to this devastating report from the Washington Times, about half of Americans live in areas that protect illegal immigrants.

About half of all Americans now live under sanctuary policies that shield illegal immigrants from law enforcement, according to the latest tally of jurisdictions that the Federation for American Immigration Reform is releasing Thursday.

FAIR calculates there were 564 states and municipalities that refuse some level of cooperation with federal immigration authorities as of April 1, up more than 200 since President Trump took office and up more than 500 compared with a decade ago. There were just 40 sanctuaries when President Obama took office.

And now we have sanctuary STATES. I’m looking at YOU, California, New York and Illinois.

Combined, the sanctuaries on FAIR’s list cover 49 percent of the country’s population, The Washington Times calculated.

“This is just an astounding and a dramatic surge of sanctuary jurisdictions,” said Bob Dane, executive director at FAIR. “They’ve doubled in just two years, and if you game that out, if the exponential growth continues, it’s not going to be long before it’s accurate to say the U.S. is a sanctuary country.”

While there is no official definition of sanctuaries, FAIR counted any jurisdiction that bans police or other officials from asking about immigration status, forbids communication with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or refuses to hold likely deportees for pickup by ICE.

This is really depressing. Illegal immigrants aren’t entitled to special treatment. They should be subject to the law, just like the rest of us.

I swear, half the country has lost its darn mind.

Hey Trump– please add this to the list of Obama’s legacies you’re planning on dismantling. Crack down on sanctuary cities, and let’s build the freaking wall.

h/t Washington Times