The Truth about Illegal Alien Sanctuary Policies:

• Many states and literally thousands of local town, city and county governments actively provide sanctuary for illegal aliens when they prohibit police officers from communicating with federal immigration authorities or even inquiring about the immigration status of individuals. This is an absolute violation of federal law - 8 U.S.C. - 1373(a)! "Sanctuary"" policies for illegal aliens not only shows contempt for Federal law, it results in increased violent crime and huge costs to law-abiding taxpayers for shelter, education, health care and jail space for illegal immigrants. In 2006 alone, the cost of providing social, medical, law enforcement and educational services to illegal aliens from every level of government is estimated at an astounding $53 BILLION per year!
• Illegal aliens, arrested on crimes by state and local governments who provide sanctuary, can and do get released to commit other crimes on innocent US citizens like Jamiel Shaw, the Los Angeles high school student whose mother is an Army Sergeant and served in Iraq. Shaw was murdered by an illegal immigrant who had been released from jail the day before, without any inquiry into his immigration status!
• Where sanctuary policies for illegal aliens are busted, illegal aliens will go home! 
• There is no chance of getting real illegal immigration control legislation passed at the federal level anytime soon. Both presidential candidates have dismal records in stopping illegal immigration through strict law enforcement. But real progress in solving our national crisis of illegal immigration can and is being made at the state and local level by Judicial Watch.

The Truth about Judicial Watch's Sanctuary-Busting Efforts:

• We've been fighting sanctuary policies in courtrooms, state capitals, and city halls throughout America since 2005. We've been successful in shutting down government-run day labor sites, "don't ask, don't tell" restraints on police departments, and other misguided policies like driver's licenses for illegal aliens.
• Judicial Watch is the national leader in taking on "sanctuary" cities like Newark and Los Angeles in the courts. We are also taking on misguided "sanctuary" states like New York, where we recently forced the Governor to overturn state policy of issuing drivers licenses to illegal immigrants.
• We are also the national leader in fighting the use of taxpayer dollars to fund "day labor sites" that cater to illegal aliens and unscrupulous employers who violate federal law by hiring them.
• But with so many states and cities across the country forcing residents like you to carry the extra tax burden of these "sanctuary" policies for illegal immigrants, we've barely scratched the surface of how many cases we can take on and win.

Because if no city or state is willing to offer "sanctuary" to people who are in this country illegally, there's only one place they can go - and that's home.

Sign our Petition to Your Governor demanding that your state vigorously enforce immigration laws in every county, city and town in your state.