Ah I can see one can always find a reason for the federal government to interfere at the local level if it supports their politics . The constitution also say that congress must pick a new Supreme Court justice but the right has no problem saying fuck you to that part of the constitution . Even beyond all of this , what sanctuary cities do is not unconstitutional . I think you must have a brainwashed version of what it means to be a sanctuary city . There is no law in the constitution that requirescompels local authorities to verify the immigration status of a suspect . As such , these cities don ' t waste their time and resources holding people based on immigration status unless they ' ve committed violent crimes in which case I would say deport those fuckers . In the same way that it ' s a waste to deploy law enforcement resources to catch every person breaking the speed limit , it ' s not a productive use of municipal resources to detain for deposition suspects who are not violent but may not have legal status . We just get nothing out of it . My state happens to be extremely economically productive unlike the regressive southern rural states excluding Texas which take more money from the federal government than they give . Therefore , my state has to subsidize the poorer states which now want to impose an undue burden of prosecuting and holding people based simply on legal status ? Get outta here . If you want to do it in your state have at it but we ' re doing just fine up here and don ' t need your interference . I have no problem if shitty rural states want to pass regressive laws . s t a t e s m o r e d e p endentonfederalgovernment 20157