Sanctuary city disaster could end under Trump but will worsen if Harris wins

From New York to Chicago and the Denver suburbs, migrant gangs are mugging, raping, robbing stores, running brothels next to elementary schools and threatening apartment dwellers with guns in residential buildings — all without fear of being deported.The gangs are turning neighborhoods into hellholes.Blame insane “sanctuary” laws.The word “sanctuary” sounds charitable, but don’t be fooled.It doesn’t mean welcoming the downtrodden, but actually bars police from sharing arrest information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement so that the agency can take custody of illegal immigrants arrested for violent crimes and deport them.Sanctuary laws, in effect, shield criminals who don’t belong in the United States from removal. Eleven states and some 600 towns and cities, mostly controlled by Democrats, have them.Because of these laws, migrant lawbreakers go through a revolving-door justice system — and end up back on the streets to strike again.Americans have a choice: On Saturday, presidential candidate Donald Trump promised to work with Congress to “end all sanctuary cities ..

.across our country.”  Or we can choose Vice President Kamala Harris — who has apparently taken a vow of silence on questions of policy.But her record shows that San Franciscans died because of her stance on migrant crime when she presided as the city’s top prosecutor.In 2008 Edwin Ramos, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, murdered a man and his two sons.

Prior to the triple murder, Ramos had a history of juvenile arrests for assault and attempted robbery.Had San Francisco police cooperated with federal immigration authorities, Ramos might have been deported, instead of free to kill.Similarly Rony Aguilera, who came to the US illegally from Honduras, murdered Ivan Miranda in 2008.

Aguilera had had several earlier run-ins with police, but he remained in San Francisco, ready to unleash violence.The media have painted a heroic picture of Harris’ career in la...