Sanctuary City Quotes

You can go ahead and break a law, and you can come to a sanctuary city, and they wouldn't enforce the laws.

Los Angeles is the strongest defender of immigrants perhaps of any city in this country.

When a city says, 'If you're illegal, come here, we're not going to prosecute you,' the federal law should supersede the local mayor's edict.

We are a city that is a sanctuary city. We have immigrants from all over the world who call Chicago their home. They'll continue to do that, and we're going to continue to make sure that this is truly a welcoming community for those immigrants and we want them to come to the city of Chicago.

I am really not clear in my mind what a sanctuary city is.

The City of Portland, our police bureau, and our employees do not cooperate with ICE.

...the mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven.

Portland calls itself a 'sanctuary city,' but it's nothing of the sort for a law-abiding journalist.

If you're an illegal alien in Prince William County, I'd get out.

If a sanctuary city means that our police department does not enforce federal immigration laws, then we are one. But declaring yourself a 'sanctuary city' also signals to a lot of people that you are protecting hard-core criminals, which I don't, and I don't believe in.

I will put the needs of the citizens of all creeds and backgrounds in our community over the needs of individuals who decide to break the law to come to our nation.

Being a sanctuary city, for the people of organize and run it, is a great source of pride. 'Social justice! Fairness, equality, diversity!" All the things that make liberals great people and make you a schlub. The more pressures and demands on their social services, the better people they are.

In Utah, the American melting pot is unstirred. Three out of four people are Mormons, and they are all here in this bleakly beautiful sanctuary 'behind the Zion curtain' because of religious persecution.

Sanctuary city policies disrespect the rule of law in this country.