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📚 noun • entry_id 58311

sanctuary city

Meanings (ES + gloss)
ciudad santuario
A city that allows undocumented immigrants to live and work without being arrested and deported by local authorities.
Regardless of any immediate connections Koch's directive might have had to sanctuary during the 1980s, by the time Congressional representatives were discussing the 1996 immigratio…
The president is upset with congressional leaders for slow-rolling his core campaign promise, and for failing to defund sanctuary cities in their spending bill.
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