•    "Sanctuary policies do not violate or conflict with federal law. While there is no set, legal definition of what constitutes a ‘sanctuary policy,’ in general, such policies limit the circumstances under which state and local governments and law enforcement agencies will use their resources to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement efforts. States and local governments and law enforcement agencies undertake such policies so as to better serve their communities. Such policies make clear to noncitizens that they have nothing to fear from cooperating with the local law enforcement agency or with state and local government officials. Such policies also allow state and local officials to make the decisions about how to best use limited law enforcement and government resources. This allows law enforcement and government officials to more effectively police and provide services to all residents of their communities." Source: National Immigration Project

•    "Constitutional protection for sanctuary jurisdictions rests on a series of Supreme Court decisions holding that the 10th Amendment — which states that ‘powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States . . . or to the people’ — bans federal ‘commandeering’ of state governments. The leading decisions to that effect are New York v. United States (1992) and Printz v. United States (1997). They hold, among other things, that state and local governments cannot be compelled to help enforce federal law. The anti-commandeering doctrine was further extended in Murphy v. NCAA (2018), which held that the federal government cannot issue orders to state legislatures and thereby force states to enact legislation or to refrain from repealing state laws." Source: Ilya Somin, Professor of Law at George Mason University

•    "An individual, documented or undocumented, should know that when they call the police, we’re going to come there and we’re going to help them... We’re going to help them jump start their car, we’re going to help them if they’re a victim of domestic violence, if they’re robbed… Hopefully we’ll never get into, ‘Hey, what’s your legal status?’ Let’s say someone’s being abused by their spouse. We would not want them to fear calling us because we might deport them. We want there to always be trust." Source: Brian Steel, President of Fraternal Order of Police Capital City Lodge No. 9