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Chicago is among the nation’s sanctuary cities, which generally prohibit local authorities from cooperating with federal immigration police, often by refusing to hold people arrested on local charges past their release date at the request of federal immigration officers.
Last year, the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University released an analysis showing that immigrants in sanctuary cities are 20% less likely to be arrested out in the community than in cities without such policies.
“Sanctuary cities are not about releasing ‘criminal aliens’ to rape and pillage in our streets," Lightfoot told the Tribune. “That’s an outrageous and offensive thing to say.”
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