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Sanctuary Cities blog
What an ICE Detainer Actually Asks a Local Jail to Do and Why It Matters A detainer is a request to notify federal officers and hold a person briefly for transfer. The sanctuary fight is mostly a fight over whether to honor it. How Sanctuary Became a Brand, From a 1979 Police Order to City Hall From a 1979 Los Angeles police order and a Tucson church movement to San Francisco in 1989, how a narrow rule turned into a banner cities now advertise. If Sanctuary Rules Applied to Your Unpaid Taxes, a Satirical Thought Experiment A labelled satire of a city that declares itself a sanctuary from the IRS, then a straight look at uniform law, the Supremacy Clause and the courts.