Sanctuary Cities Ready to Torch Fingerprint Sharing to Protect Illegal Aliens

The inevitable endpoint of sanctuary cities desire to protect illegal aliens is now in sight - a halt of all fingerprint sharing by localities with state and federal authorities. The Huffington Post has a report from Santa Clara county, California, where supervisors are plotting on how they can prevent ICE from deporting illegal aliens taken into custody. "The county is also looking into ways to put limits on the fingerprints sent to the state's database, which is monitored by ICE. This has been done in El Paso County, Texas, where the sheriff says he only shares fingerprints from Class B misdemeanors and above." The end point of these types of policies will mean an end to effective criminal identification once criminals realize they can commit crimes in Santa Clara and other counties without worrying that a check of their records will reveal outstanding warrants or other reasons to hold them. The move to stop fingerprint sharing will not stop with low-level crimes; the inevitable push will be to allow cities to withold any and all fingerprints from being sent to state and federal fingerprint identification centers.