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Rep. Jamie Raskin Pretends Not to Know What Sanctuary Cities Are

Has Rep. Jamie Raskin not heard of sanctuary cities? Mayors explicitly instruct law enforcement not to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. Raskin wanted to know why ICE doesn't just pick up illegal aliens at the jail as they're being released back into the public. They try — they file detainers to do exactly that. The problem is that sanctuary cities don't honor these detainers and deliberately release the illegal aliens without alerting ICE.

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Maryland, while it doesn't officially consider itself a sanctuary state, is the home of at least eight sanctuary cities. Raskin knows about ICE detainers. Why is he pretending not to?

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