Sanctuary State and Your New Neighbors

For Immediate Release    Chapter Five: Sanctuary State and Your New Neighbors March 7, 2018 – Governor Rauner’s "Trust Act" exemplified the way the left uses political language as a smokescreen to hide the full intent of its actions. The measure was sold as a way to protect hardworking undocumented immigrants and their children, who only want a better life, from local law enforcement agencies more interested in deporting them than protecting us. While that's a blatantly inaccurate assessment of what's happening in Illinois, if that's all the legislation did, there wouldn't have been an uproar over it. The legislation, however, went beyond protecting undocumented immigrants who haven't committed criminal acts from deportation. It made Illinois a criminal sanctuary state for persons in the state illegally who, then, commit additional crimes. The first and most basic duty entrusted to government is to protect its people, but the Trust Act did just the opposite. Chapter Five, of The Governor You Don’t Know: ‘Sanctuary State and Your New Neighbors,’ discusses how the ‘Trust Act’ destroyed the trust many conservatives had placed in Governor Rauner. “Rauner’s sanctuary state actions risk billions of dollars in federal funding for Illinois. His administration recently received the same letter as did his buddy Rahm from the Department of Justice to prove up compliance with federal immigration law or risk federal funding across a range of needs and perhaps even face federal prosecution. “For some reason, backers of the Trust Act call it a good compromise. Rauner termed it “a very reasonable, decent outcome.” This is a puzzle; how can it be considered reasonable when it gives criminals the right to roam our communities? “Kyle McCarter, a Republican senator from Lebanon outside St. Louis, said, ‘This could be the last straw’ for downstate supporters of Rauner.  “Except there has been a surfeit of ‘last straws’ from Rauner’s term, with each failure (like on immigration) competing to be the most outrageous. Consider:   Signing a voter registration measure to automatically enroll people on the voting rolls at drivers’ license and other state facilities when applying for, updating or renewing a driver’s license or state ID. That’s after he had promised a year earlier to veto such legislation. Signing a law that requires every doctor, pharmacist or pro-life pregnancy center to help a woman obtain an abortion whenever asked, even if the health provider finds the service immoral. It replaced an earlier law that protected health care providers from providing services that are “morally objectionable.” Signing legislation the Heartland Institute said would produce a subsidy to Exelon valued at $1.6 billion and would increase electricity costs about $300 per household. The president of Americans for Tax reform said it would lead to lost jobs and reduced economic output and competitiveness. Rauner took tens of thousands of dollars of campaign contributions from Exelon.  Allowing the Department of Children and Family Services to become, as the Chicago Tribune said, a “national scandal.”  Responding late to the deadly outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease at the Quincy veterans’ facility.  Responding late to the disclosure of serious problems with the state’s property assessment system. The list goes on. But Rauner’s worst flop is his failure to make any progress on the state’s two greatest problems: pension reform and property taxes. If voters are to judge by the results of his time in office, one can reasonably ask if even all his millions can (or should) save him for a second term.” Read the entire Chapter here.  Download the book here. ### For more information or to book Jeanne Ives, please contact Kathleen Murphy at 630-329-4680 or kathleenemurphy26@gmail.com.