Earlier this week, Mayor Craig Greenberg announced that Louisville will no longer be considered a sanctuary city. It’s not a dramatic change, but it is an important designation to continue to receive federal funding.
This is only about inmates who are in this country illegally, arrested for crimes, booked in our jail, and are subject to deportation notices. Currently, when an undocumented immigrant is about to be released from the Louisville jail, the federal immigration officials are given five to 12 hours notification, which often isn’t enough time to collect them. Now, federal authorities will have 48 hours notice to pick up and deport someone who was here illegally and then committed another crime.
Please listen to this carefully: people who take the proper steps to enter our country legally should be embraced and welcomed to our community. But immigrants who sneak in, who are trespassing, who are not documented, and then commit often violent crimes are different and should not be protected…