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Much Ado About Nothing?: Local Resistance And The Significance Of Sanctuary Laws, Alyssa Garcia
Much Ado About Nothing?: Local Resistance And The Significance Of Sanctuary Laws, Alyssa Garcia
Seattle University Law Review
This Comment explores the current constitutional discourse of sanctuary laws and compares their various components. Part I provides background on the basic policy components of sanctuary laws and modern policies. Part II explores and compares the substantive legal and political value of sanctuary laws. This section will first assess the impact of sanctuary policies on existing immigration and constitutional law. In doing so, specific sanctuary jurisdictions involved in litigation, Seattle, San Francisco, and Chicago, and their likelihood of withstanding preemption under existing doctrine will be compared. The impact sanctuary laws may have on the Tenth Amendment will next be discussed. …