Yet more demonstrative ignorance.
Daryl Gates, a republican and well-known los angeles chief of police, created the first instance of a sanctuary city when he instituted
Special Order 40 back in 1979. The purpose of this order was two-fold: One was to focus police services on crime prevention, not immigration. The second, and more important, was to ensure that crimes would be reported without concern for deportation, thus curtailing human abuse instances in which illegal immigrants, undocumented workers, were being physically abused, extorted or harmed (usually by their American employers).
See, the problem here, spider, is you really don't know things from the truth, only from the spin. You haven't looked into the history, the motivations, or the problems that propagated whatever laws/orders are presently in place in various cities/States. And, because of this, you and others have this distorted view that the evils of society were perpetrated because of sympathizers to illegal immigrants. Worse, it is perpetrated as a "democratic liberal" objective.
Yet it's a convenient forget when it comes to Republican President Ronald Reagan who, in 1986, signed the
Immigration, Reform and Control Act, which resulted in 3 million illegal immigrants obtaining amnesty. The most fascinating part of it, however, was that this Act was the first major step into making it illegal to knowingly hire illegal immigrants. Unfortunately, due to --- you guessed it --- corporate lobbyists, the teeth of this Act was lost along the way prior to being signed, with the majority of the extractors being Republican congressman.
So, a great idea that was butchered and turned into a bad idea, which is par for course unfortunately.