Image: from Loren Collingwood & Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien’s great introductory article, A History of Sanctuary Cities in the United States.
Books
Harald Bauder & Jonathan Darling: Sanctuary cities and urban struggles: Rescaling migration, citizenship, and rights.
Loren Collingwood & Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien: Sanctuary Cities: The Politics of Refuge.
Melvin Delgado: Sanctuary Cities, Communities, and Organizations: A Nation at a Crossroads.
Articles
ACLU: ACLU Response to “Sanctuary City” Legislation.
Fred Barbash: Renewed Trump ‘sanctuary cities’ crackdown ruled illegal.
Harald Bauder & Dayana A. Gonzalez: Municipal Responses to ‘Illegality’: Urban Sanctuary across National Contexts.
Darla Cameron: How sanctuary cities work, and how Trump’s blocked executive order could have affected them.
Lauren Carasik: Whom Do Sanctuary Cities Protect?
CNN: Texas governor signs bill banning sanctuary cities.
Loren Collingwood & Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien:
- A History of Sanctuary Cities in the United States.
- How conservative media and Jeff Sessions got it wrong on sanctuary cities.
Loren Collingwood, Stephen Omar El-Khatib, & Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien: The Politics of Refuge: Sanctuary Cities, Crime, and Undocumented Immigration.
Kate Dwyer: What It Means to Be a ‘Sanctuary City’ for Undocumented Immigrants.
Angela S. García: Giving sanctuary to undocumented immigrants doesn’t threaten public safety—it increases it.
Judith Giesberg: Jeff Sessions is wrong. Sanctuary-city advocates aren’t like secessionists. They’re like abolitionists. A history lesson for the attorney general.
David K. Hausman: Sanctuary policies reduce deportations without increasing crime.
Nick Miroff:
- ICE announces 128 immigration arrests in California ‘sanctuary’ cities, part of wider pre-election operation.
- Study finds no crime increase in cities that adopted ‘sanctuary’ policies, despite Trump claims.
Alex Nowrasteh: Immigration and Crime – What the Research Says.
NPR:
- Trump Threatens ‘Sanctuary’ Cities With Loss Of Federal Funds.
- California Governor Signs ‘Sanctuary State’ Bill.
Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien:
- Is There a Connection Between Sanctuary Cities and Crime?
- Washington is safer because of its sanctuary status.
- The Trump team’s mythology on sanctuary city crime rates.
Richard Pérez-Peña: Contrary to Trump’s Claims, Immigrants Are Less Likely to Commit Crimes.
Chuck Wexler: Police chiefs across the country support sanctuary cities because they keep crime down.
Tom K. Wong: