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'Sanctuary' cities for illegals draw ire
But dozens of cities say the policy aids police by making it easier for people to report crimes.
| Oakland, Calif.
When responding to an incident, Oakland police will gather the usual who, what, when of those involved. But there's one question they won't ask: Are you here in this country legally?
That's because Oakland calls itself a "sanctuary city," one of dozens across the United States that have policies directing local police or officials to stay out of immigration matters.
For Lt. Chris Mufarreh, who patrols the heavily Hispanic Fruitvale neighborhood, "sanctuary" soothes fears among immigrants about coming forward when they are crime victims or witnesses. But for resident Steve Kemp, who is organizing a protest of the policy, the police are shirking their duty to uphold the law.
Sharply divided views on sanctuary policies are emerging on the national stage. A Florida congresswoman introduced a bill this month that would withhold some federal funds to sanctuary cities. Meanwhile, Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney has been criticizing rival Rudolph Giuliani for the former mayor's sanctuary policy in New York City.
With the demise of a comprehensive immigration deal this year, in congress opponents of illegal immigration are pushing for greater enforcement mechanisms, including help from local law-enforcement. But for immigrant advocates and many police departments, that goal draws local resources into an area of federal responsibility and undermines successful community policing efforts.
"If police are seen as immigration enforcers, members of immigrant communities will simply be afraid to talk to them," says David Harris, a law professor at the University of Toledo in Ohio and author of "Good Cops," a book on preventive policing. "When that kind of fear is rampant in the community, the predators know this right away."
He cites Austin, Texas, which faced a scourge of violence, particularly against immigrants carrying large amounts of cash. The fix: Offer identification cards for immigrants to open bank accounts and get the word out that police weren't interested in immigration status. Reports from witnesses spiked, followed by a drop in the violence, says Mr. Harris.
Oakland updated its status as a sanctuary city in April following a series of high-profile raids around the Bay Area by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Oakland had been a sanctuary city as part of a movement in the 1980s offering political asylum to certain refugees. Some cities like Oakland and San Francisco have reinvented the concept as a way to disassociate themselves from the stepped-up ICE raids.
The term sanctuary, however, may be a misnomer.
"What's going on now is not really a sanctuary movement… It's a modern community-policing strategy," says Lynn Tramonte, a senior policy associate with the National Immigration Forum, an immigration advocacy organization based in Washington. "It's not as though the police department policies protect foreign-born people from deportation."
Typically, the policies direct cops not to look for violations of immigration law, though some cities allow questions if the person has been booked on a felony.
A few cities including New York, Oakland, and Baltimore extend the "don't ask" policy to all city workers – a move advocates say helps ensure kids get vaccines and adults seek healthcare.
Nearly 70 cities, counties, and states have enacted sanctuary policies, according to a preliminary count by the National Immigration Law Center. The Congressional Research Service in 2006 put the number at 32 cities and counties.
The plethora of ordinances and police department rules has created some confusion, even among officials in Washington.
"People use the term 'sanctuary city' in different ways, so I'm never quite sure what people mean," said Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), during a Congressional hearing earlier this month. He called "foolish and counterproductive" those policies that prevent reporting felons for deportation. But, he added, "I'm not aware of any city – although I may be wrong – that actually interferes with our ability to enforce the law."
Mr. Chertoff was responding to Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite (R) of Florida, who introduced legislation recently that would withhold some nonemergency DHS funds to sanctuary cities.
"Imagine that ... one of the ... 9/11 hijackers, who were in the country illegally, had a city they could reside in to plot terrorist attacks with no fear of ever being checked or deported," said Representative Brown-Waite.
Those against sanctuary cities point to a recent case in New Jersey where an illegal immigrant allegedly led an attack that killed three people. The suspect was out on bail for other indictments – despite his immigration status – and there's concern that the information hadn't reached federal immigration officials because Newark is a sanctuary city.
For its part, ICE says that while sanctuary policies won't stop its agents from enforcing immigration law in a city, it does "make it harder." Cities could be shutting themselves off to valuable ICE assistance, such as Operation Community Shield, an antigang effort that has used immigration enforcement to arrest more than 6,000 gang members. Beyond that, the Justice Department has found a technological way to rope police into immigration enforcement. In 2001, the department began adding immigration warrants into a national database once reserved for wanted felons. During any routine stop, police query the database.
"You essentially force people at the local level to act on it, because the departmental policy is if you have warrants you have to take them in," says Harris, who notes the immigration data is not of high quality. Data entered between 2002 and 2004 had an error rate of 42 percent, according to a study by the Migration Policy Institute.
For Mr. Kemp, a member of the local Minutemen, the argument over federal versus local responsibilities is moot. "It's an American matter," he says. "The feds aren't doing their job period. So it's up to state and local governments to take care of this problem."
But Lieutenant Mufarreh is happy with the sanctuary policy and the better communication he says it has brought.


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Priscilla "Tilly" Shaw. Photo by Rosie King
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For the complete text [PDF] of Professor Priscilla "Tilly" Shaw: Poet, Teacher, Administrator on the University of California's escholarship site
A literary scholar, poet, and UC Santa Cruz faculty member in literature from 1966 to 1993, Tilly Shaw participated in this oral history interview in the spring of 2013. Shaw arrived in the second year of the campus, for the opening of Stevenson College in 1966-67, as a visiting faculty member from Yale. In 1967 the Board of Studies in Literature hired her as a tenured faculty member. She became one of very few tenured women during UCSC's early days. Acutely interested in gender dynamics, Shaw discussed the evolving sexual politics that played out in the social and intellectual climate of the campus over the course of her three and a half decades on the faculty. The oral history also addresses some of her experiences and perceptions as a member of Academic Senate and other committees and as chair of literature from 1984 to 1988.
Like many faculty members hired during the relatively informal early years, Shaw recalls a certain degree of confusion about whether or not her initial campus visit constituted a formal job interview, and some surprise when she was offered an appointment. Later, in helping to shape the campus affirmative action plan, she had a role in creating explicit policies to guide hiring and other personnel processes. Also like many of her contemporary colleagues, she witnessed the gradual attenuation of the original vision for UCSC's residential college system, brought on in part by the often competing, unsustainable faculty workloads collectively exacted by colleges, administrative committees, and boards of study.
Shaw touches repeatedly on the socioeconomic and familial circumstances—as well as the personal and intellectual proclivities—that shaped her interests in comparative literature, poetry, and pedagogy. Throughout her career she sustained a deep wariness of economic and institutional elitism, combined with respect for some time-honored conventions of academic respectability—a complex, sometimes contradictory set of attitudes that she explores in the oral history.

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If gun control in the 19th and early 20th century wasn't racist, please explain these two items for your readers and yourself.
1. What happened in the underlying incident that resulted in the Supreme Court case so lovingly cited by the proponents of gun control entitled US v. Cruikshank.
2. In concurring opinion narrowly construing a Florida gun control law passed in 1893, Justice Buford stated the 1893 law "was passed when there was a great influx of negro laborers in this State….The same condition existed when the Act was amended in 1901 and the Act was passed for the purpose of disarming the negro laborers….The statute was never intended to be applied to the white population and in practice has never been so applied…". Watson v. Stone, 148 Fla. 516, 524, 4 So.2d 700, 703 (1941) (GMU CR LJ, p. 69)
In the 21st Century, the US Conference of Mayors filed an Amicus brief to oppose the McDonald case that made clear that incorporation of the Second Amendment would limit the use of stop and frisk on gang members (http://www.chicagoguncase.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/08-1521bsacunitedstatesconferenceofmayors.pdf). Do you think the reality of that policing tactic is racially neutral?


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If you've ever watched the movie Face/Off and desperately wanted to try the same thing—minus the implausible surgery and John Travolta—now's your chance. Yahoo Japan has released Face Stealer, an endlessly amusing iPhone app that uses augmented reality to replace your face with someone else's. And despite being free, it works surprisingly well.
Taylor Lorenz Talks "Extremely Online"
The app comes with a small collection of pre-loaded faces for you to immediately swap in—from Obama to Einstein—but with a little futzing you can also snap anyone's photo and replace your face with theirs. The app works with any iOS device with a front-facing camera, and even lets you share your horrible Hannibal Lecter-like creations on Facebook or Twitter. [DigInfo TV]


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Before you run off in fear, let me assure you that I am new to tempeh, too. Tempeh (pronounced "temp-eh") is a soy-based vegetarian protein that is packed with calcium and fiber. And because temeph uses the whole soy bean, there is more protein, fiber, and vitamins & minerals in tempeh as compared to tofu. Unlike tofu's very squishy texture, tempeh is dense and nutty. It is easier than tofu to prepare and takes on the flavors of other ingredients very readily.
If there's a new ingredient, namely proteins, I want to try out on Mr. Prevention…Asian flavors are usually the safest choice. Vegetarian proteins are unique in that they are very mild in flavor and can adapt to most recipes, as was the case in this dish.
The only draw-back to Asian ingredients such as soy sauce, hoisin, and seasoned rice vinegar are the high sodium contents. And MSG, though you can very easily find MSG-free ingredients in nearly any retailer.
Funny two-second story. When I went out for hibachi with my students last week, one of the students jokingly asked our chef if his teriyaki sauce was MSG-free. We all thought this was rather funny. And hey, I know they learned something 😉
Though Mr. Prevention was hesitant to try this dish, he had picked up the broccolini himself from Whole Foods and we fought all week over the various names — broccoli rabe, broccolini, baby broccoli, etc. Apparently, I was to give him ALL the possible names it could be under because my description of "tall, skinny broccolini" wasn't good enough. If you can't find broccolini, no sweat…just use your every day broccoli 🙂
Somewhat to my surprise, Mr. Prevention really enjoyed this dish. He would like me to note that "it's all about the sauce" and he proceeded to pour more than his fair share of the remaining sauce over his plate. Whatever. Can't blame him, the sauce is wonderful…as is this dish.
Tempeh and Broccolini Stir-Fry slightly adapted from Cooking Light
3/4 lb broccolini
6 Tbsp (about 4) green onions, chopped and divided
4 1/2 Tbsp seasoned rice vinegar
3 Tbsp lower-sodium soy sauce
2 Tbsp hoisin sauce
2 tsp honey
1/2 tsp crushed red pepper
5 tsp canola oil, divided
1 (8-oz) package organic tempeh, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
1 1/2 cup snow peas, cut diagonally
1 cup uncooked brown rice (I used instant to make this a quick meal)
1/4 cup unsalted, dry-roasted peanuts
Prepare rice according to directions.
Bring a pot of water to boil. Cook broccolini in boiling water for 2 minutes or until crisp-tender. Drain and plunge broccolini into ice water; drain. Squeeze dry. Cut into smaller pieces.
Combine 3 tablespoons green onions and the next 5 ingredients (through red pepper) in a bowl; set aside.
Heat a large, heavy skillet or wok over medium-high heat. Add 1 tablespoon oil to pan; swirl to coat. Add tempeh; stir-fry for 5 minutes or until golden brown on all sides. Remove tempeh from pan; keep warm. Add remaining 2 teaspoons oil to pan; swirl to coat. Add broccolini and snow peas; stir-fry 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add tempeh and vinegar mixture to pan; bring to a boil. Divide rice evenly among 3 bowls; top with tempeh mixture. Sprinkle with remaining 3 tablespoons green onions and peanuts.
Yield: 3 servings (1 cup rice with 1 1/4 cup tempeh-broccolini mixture).
Nutrition Information (per serving): 444 calories; 15.8 g. fat; 0 mg. cholesterol; 828 mg. sodium; 59.5 g. carbohydrate; 8.3 g. fiber; 19.3 g. protein
Result: Tempeh success! Thanks to the bold flavors of hoisin, soy sauce, and crushed red pepper, it's hard not to love this dish…even if you're in search of the meat. I, personally, wouldn't consider tempeh to be anything like meat, but I like it. It's a nice change from tofu and tempeh is becoming easier to find all the time – my local Kroger now carries it ($2.99 for 8 oz — on sale for $1.99 many times) in the refrigerated health foods section. Mr. P-approved, too! Enjoy![/print_this]
Tomorrow, bring your insulin and your scout sash adorned with badges for a Girl Scout cookie re-make! 😀
Have a great week!
Be well,