SF Sheriff's Office reaffirms immigrant protection as Trump cracks down on sanctuary cities

Our work now is bigger than simply opening the door of the church for one or two people to stay,

Hynicka said

If Trump wants to close houses of worship, but God isn't pleased, then he won’t be able to do a thing,

Niass said

To violate that is also a very serious issue,

said Hollenbach

I doubt churches are going to be the first line of attack.”

Jeffress added, however

President Trump is right to fix our broken immigration system ... but it must be done so without turning churches into wards of the state or expecting pastors to ask for papers of people coming through their doors,

Leatherwood said in a statement

I recite that verse every day,

Montalvo said

We don’t have a full-fledged game plan yet,

Edwards-Acton said

We have children who are shaking literally and crying,

Rodriguez said

Theologically, we’ll stand our ground against the government — an unjust law is no law at all,

Knutson told The Associated Press

There’s no such thing as a sanctuary that’s immune from the laws of our land,

he said

Undocumented people go to church every week to pray that they can make ends meet, so they can pay the rent for their families,

he said

People are afraid to go to work, to school, to live their lives freely because they are afraid of being arrested or deported,

she said

The legal question for judges will be, is inaction enough to be a violation of the law?”

he added

This may just be the beginning of Trump’s revenge tour and the DOJ prosecuting his political opponents or those who are standing in the way of his ambitious agenda,

former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani, president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, said in a statement to The Independent

The Supremacy Clause [of the U.S. Constitution] and other authorities require state and local actors to comply with the Executive Branch’s immigration enforcement initiatives”

according to the Justice Department memo

Rob Bontacalifornia Attorney General

This is a scare tactic, plain and simple. The President is attempting to intimidate and bully state and local law enforcement into carrying out his mass deportation agenda for him,

California Attorney General Rob Bonta wrote in a statement

Thomas Homanborder czar

If your Chicago mayor doesn’t want to help, he can step aside,

Trump immigration czar Tom Homan reportedly said late last year

Sheriff Miyamoto and the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office protect undocumented immigrants,

a statement on X read

Despite not receiving training from the district, we are preparing our members to create ‘sanctuary teams’ and working in each school to ensure educators know what to do in case of a raid and are prepared to protect our students and their rights,

the union said

I can tell you right now, we have no criminals that are hiding in our church building. Most of the schools, if not all of them, do not have criminals that are hiding in their buildings,

Brown said