Editorial LiveJournalists blast away on "sanctuary" semantics
Earlier in the week, the Editorial LiveJournalists had that gaffe (still uncorrected) on airport security.
On the same day, the Editorial LiveJournalists used the Harris County GOP's promotion of a petition drive to continue a recent trend of insisting that Houston is not a sanctuary city:
The petition drive, which will be mute after Aug. 28 if the signatures have not been verified by the city secretary, rests on two fictions: that Houston is a so-called sanctuary city and that Houston police cannot ask criminals and suspects whether they are in this country legally.
HPD General Order 500-05, issued in 1992, forbids officers from inquiring about an individual's immigration status. The Congressional Research Service has described this as a sanctuary policy. The Editorial LiveJournalists can continue to insist that the sanctuary policy is really not a sanctuary policy, and that the not-sanctuary policy really is a prudent and necessary policy, but it's not at all clear why such supporters of the not-sanctuary policy are so scared of a real Council debate over the policy, instead preferring to treat the directive issued by the police chief in 1992 as some sort of sacred decree.
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Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/13/06 08:59 PM | Houston Chronicle | Technorati | Sphere | Comments (3)
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