Upload to mega and Ill believe you . After your little ruse earlier Im having a hard time <| sep |> not loudly proclaiming that if you are illegal we will not prosecute youYes , you ' re absolutely right . Cities are loudly proclaiming that if you ' re here illegally they won ' t prosecute you . The part you ' re missing is that they have no authority to do thatLet ' s start with the basic facts . Finding and prosecuting people for immigration violations is the job of the federal government . And only the federal government . Not the states , not the cities . This is our separation of powers . It ' s in the Constitution and everything . The only thing that cities or states can legally do after they have someone in custody for a nonimmigration offense is call up the federal government and say hey , this a courtesy call , we have this guy , he may be illegal we don ' t know for sure , the constitution bans us from verifying it , and it ' s your job anyway and our tax dollars are going to be spent elsewhere , do you want to do anything about it ? If they don ' t want to make that courtesy call , they don ' t have to . They ' re actually explicitly banned by the constitution from doing much more See Arizona et al . V . United States . If they want to shout that they don ' t make courtesy calls to the feds , that ' s their freedom to do so . Any and every city or state can do the exact same thing if they choose to , without repercussion . Because they ' re not actually doing anything wrong . While it may rub people the wrong way , remember it ' s a doubleedged sword . The other edge of the sword is education . The feds by design have little role in controlling education policy in the states , and it allows us to have one of the best in the nation and shout about how good our education system is .