The Senate Study Bill 1172 was recently passed by the federal or state government that has again perturbed the Iowa Senate Floor. This is because the counties, cities and public campuses in Iowa need to ensure compliance with the requests of the information of the immigrants. Any local body or campus police department will be banned if they try to go against enforcing any kind of immigration laws. As a result, the very concept of sanctuary cities of the cities and other local bodies which was supposed to be a safe haven for the immigrants is put to question.
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The resolution of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors will be affected
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The resolution of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors is likely to be affected as well thereby disrupting their plan of implementation of the immigration policies in the country. Till date, they were rigid in their support for the immigrants and ‘public safety’ was the prime priority. However, this is now doubtful although Johnson County Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek stated in a Press-Citizen article that even if they were asked to participate in raids by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, they are not going to cooperate.
The significant impact of the after effects of SSB 1172
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However, the after effects of the SSB 1172, if passed, can surely have some significant impact as put forward by Pulkrabek. In fact, according to him, there are several spaces for modifications in the present bill and any changes can be made in the future by the Senate that can have a gross effect on the overall immigration policy of the country as well. For the time being, he prefers to keep the immigration issue as a federal one only.
Will Johnson County will be included in the list of sanctuary cities?
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It is however, quite unclear and uncertain too that Johnson County will be included in the list of the sanctuary cities at all. The SSB 1172 is set to be passed and become effective from 1st January, 2018 and officials have clearly mentioned that any violation of the rules and laws stated in the bill by the local bodies and counties will ban them from receiving any kinds of state funds. If necessary, they need to alter their immigration policies to be at par with the bill.
The inhabitants of the Iowa City have already started their protest
As a result of this, activisms and protests have already been started by the inhabitants of the Iowa City and therefore, on 4th March people have accumulated to protest against the SSB 1172 bill along with other similar bills like HF 265, which averts the prohibition of any enforcement of federal immigration laws that can be applied against the interests of the immigrants. All these have put the security of the immigrants in question.
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After the anti-immigrant policies under the rule of President Donald Trump have been initiated gradually by banning the immigration from the seven Muslim-majority countries, Trump is always focused on making US free from illegal immigrants. Iowa is the next state to be in the row and immigrants here fear to be driven out of the homes unless the state Legislature does something for amending the bill and Harreld personally states that safety will be ensured.
