Sanctuary city status will have consequences

Sanctuary city? Not only think twice but three or four times. You may open your city to drug activity and criminals more than saved in law enforcement activity. Customers to your city may decrease and those braving this new crime wave may refrain from coming or even will carry concealed weapons for defense of self and those with them.

Legal immigration is by contacting U.S. representatives, embassies, etc., submitting to physicals to ensure no disabling disease. Submitting to a law enforcement background check to ensure against bringing criminals to the United States. Further, submitting evidence of viable support that the immigrant will not come under hardship while working toward citizenship. The U.S. State Department sets the number of immigrants that may come from each foreign nation. The quotas can and should be adjusted to accommodate the needs of the immigrants as well as the needs of commercial employment within the country. Failure in this increases the dangers of illegal trespassers through our borders.

Illegal immigrants have increased babies born here, drug smuggling, crime activity and possibly terrorists entering our nation. They have increased costs to our nation for medical and social hardship funds. They have set in motion a duel between political parties, each pretending sympathy toward the illegal immigrants in order to gain the vote with amnesty for citizenship. This violates the oath of office

Do you in any sense wish to make Iowa City a sanctuary?

Laddie D. Oliver

Washington