Sanctuary City

A sanctuary city can be defined as a city that adopts a policy where they don't require their employees, including law enforcement officers, to report to federal officials aliens who may be illegally present in the country. Some municipalities address the issue of illegal immigration and sanctuary cities through resolutions, executive orders or city ordinances, while many police departments address the issues through special orders, departmental policy and general orders. The movement to provide coverage for unauthorized aliens stems from the belief that the enforcement of immigration law is the responsibility of federal authorities, and that state or local resources should not be used for this purpose.
One of the overriding concerns with state and local police involvement in the enforcement of immigration law is the potential for civil rights violations. A person is afforded certain civil rights under the Fifth Amendment, which guarantees that "no person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without the due process of law ...," and the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits a state from denying to "any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Some additional issues regarding local authorities enforcing immigration laws are racial profiling and inmate housing. Both of these complicate the how local government should address the issue of illegal aliens.
(All above information provided by www.ilw.com/immigration)
Rick Perry has released an ad recently about White allowing Houston to be a sanctuary city. From the argument above, I could see why White would have supported Houston as a sanctuary city. It would take way too many of the city's resources to start implementing immigration law. Therefore, White had every right to support Houston's economy and restrict Houston employees to do the federal governments job.
The woman, Sgt. Joslyn Johnson, in Perry's ad states that "Bill White supported sanctuary city policies that made it difficult for officers to safely do their jobs." She also stated that the man who killed her husband had been deported. What she failed to add was that he was deported prior to the shooting and had reentered the United States illegally. This is a federal policy issue, not a Houston policy issue. Anything that Bill White supported did not allow this man to shoot and kill her husband. Perry is Governor of the state and he should have been able to support laws to keep criminals from reentering the United States, not the mayor of a city. There isn't anything a mayor could really do to stop this from happening, it would be the federal governments responsibility.Chief Harold Hurtt said on the day of the shooting that "if the federal government would fulfill their responsibility of protecting the border, we probably would not be standing here today." This was in 2006 during the Bush administration. There was no mention of it being a city issue ever. This ad complains about sanctuary cities, while Perry is Governor of the state that has three cities listed as sanctuary cities and he, as Governor, has not implemented law to oppose these policies. Officer Johnson was not killed because of a sanctuary city policy, he was killed because he didn't properly search the arrested individual and therefore the arrested individual was able to acquire his own hidden 9mm and shoot the officer. This was both unforeseeable and unfortunate for officer Johnson. Perry has not been able to "secure our safety" for the last 10 years, so how can he be trusted to "secure our safety" in the future?