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LeftyMudersbach's avatar

Sanctuary jurisdictions are protecting future voters and their own political power. Sanctuary jurisdictions are losing population hence losing political power so they want to maximize paying and protecting illegal

Immigrants so they don’t lose political power.

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John Wygertz's avatar

So now the left regrets Flock cameras like the right regrets the Patriot Act. Surveillance technology improves constantly, and total surveillance seems inevitable. "Minority Report" is just around the corner.

Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.

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winston's avatar

Mixing metaphors a little, let's not look a dead horse in the mouth! Experience in the UK has shown that surveillance systems are a primary component of socialist totalitarianism - the literal Big Brother from 1984. If privacy is the basis for this precedent, then let's make it inadmissable to use video from these cameras in court for everyone, and subject all of the remaining cameras to a 6 hour erasure, with no web access.

Unless the federal government starts suing these city's officials with federal obstruction of justice and charging individuals with felony interference/intimidation of federal officials we'll get nowhere. Until then, let sanctuary cities provide sanctuary for all criminals, regardless of status. Let them rot.

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L  Young's avatar
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This just proves once again that people who come here breaking entry laws are treated more respectfully than a person with a US birth certificate and no criminal record. Why do the sanctuary cities raise law breakers to super citizen status while neglecting the desires of the average city dweller?

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SDN's avatar

That surveillance is WAY larger than most people want to admit. Everything those FLOCK cameras gather except car data is also gathered by your cell phone, and anyone can buy that data.... including the government, without any sort of warrant.

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E. W. Zepp's avatar

One can only imagine how different things would be if these sanctuary cities had cooperated ONLY on criminals in custody and those illegals with final removal orders. Millions of immigrants wouldn’t be afraid, civil order wouldn’t have broken down, and Trump would living full time in Fla trying to qual for the PGA Senior Tour.

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Susan Daniels's avatar

Let us not forget Martha’s Vineyard where fifty Venezuelan illegals landed in chartered planes unexpectedly and were subsequently removed thirty-six hours later by bus. They were flown to the island under the auspices of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The governor’s confusion is understandable. Residents self-declared Martha’s Vineyard as a “sanctuary site” and yard signs said: “Hate Has No Place Here” and “All Are Welcome.” However, they were only welcome until they actually arrived.

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