the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Montvale NJ, mayor of Montvale Michael Ghassali has vowed that under his administration, Montvale will not be a sanctuary city.
“I will not be signing any executive orders that will ask our employees to defy federal laws. A mayor should not be advocating the defiance of federal laws,” Ghassali announced in a Facebook post last week that has elicited both praise and condemnation.
The statement was in response to pressure from various advocacy groups that Ghassali said have approached him to declare the borough a safe haven for undocumented immigrants.
Ghassali is a Syrian immigrant whose family fled Aleppo in 1980, weeks before hundreds of civilians were killed in a brutal siege.
What am I missing here? Why should ANY city in America be a “sanctuary city”? If someone is in this country illegally, then he/she is committing a CRIME and he/she should be deported. End of story.
If this is the direction our country is moving, then this is frightening…
NP….Ghassali will be voted out when the Hasidim assume control.
Not to worry… Ridgewood will be a Sanctuary City.
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ask your dim-wiited neighbors…
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Local municipalities can only provide sanctuary to the extent that when they find an illegal resident they dont report or detain them. And if Federal authorities know someone is illegal and notify local authorities. Interesting the thing is if local authorities then either help illegal to escape (which would seem to be aiding and abetting, so doubt it) or provides resistance to Federals, which is close to civil war – which I also doubt. So a lot of this “sanctuary” thing is maybe more political maneuvering for votes than anything.