{"id":1099,"date":"2017-02-24T15:28:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T15:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/?page_id=1099"},"modified":"2025-03-10T20:59:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T20:59:28","slug":"sanctuary-cities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/eras-of-migration\/global-era\/sanctuary-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanctuary Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column]<style>.vcex-heading.vcex_69e60c2f48e42{font-size:36px;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl vc_custom_1741621662715 vcex_69e60c2f48e42\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">Sanctuary Cities: Past and Present<\/span><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1741640364823{padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;]<figure id=\"attachment_1102\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1102\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1102\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Fig-8-1024x727.jpeg\" alt=\"Fleeing civil war and violent repression in their homeland, an indigenous Guatemalan couple and their five children (hiding their identity to avoid retribution to their families back home) take refuge in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church in 1984. The church was a focal point of the local sanctuary movement.\" width=\"535\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Fig-8-1024x727.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Fig-8-300x213.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Fig-8-768x545.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Fleeing civil war and violent repression in their homeland, an indigenous Guatemalan couple and their five children (hiding their identity to avoid retribution to their families back home) take refuge in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church in 1984. The church was a focal point of the local sanctuary movement. Courtesy of the Boston Globe.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following the inauguration of President Donald Trump in 2017, efforts to establish safe communities for immigrants grew dramatically across the country. Several Massachusetts communities call themselves sanctuary or safe cities, and others approved measures to limit their cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and promote themselves as welcoming places for the foreign born. Often seen as a new tactic in the fight against Trump\u2019s immigration policies, this movement has actually been around for more than forty years, and the Boston-Cambridge area was a seedbed of these efforts from the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctuary movement began in the early 1980s as churches and religious activists offered assistance and refuge to Central Americans fleeing civil wars and mass violence in El Salvador and Guatemala. With the Reagan administration supporting repressive military regimes in both countries, those fleeing violence were denied entry as refugees and many ended up crossing the border illegally. In 1982, a group of churches in Tuscon and San Francisco declared themselves sanctuaries for Central American refugees, sparking a movement that soon expanded across the country, including New England.<\/p>\n<p>Cambridge became the local center of the movement, and in 1984 the Old Cambridge Baptist Church declared itself a sanctuary for those seeking asylum. Harboring a young Salvadoran woman who fled multiple rounds of torture by state authorities, church members held a two-week vigil with her and sponsored dozens of public forums where she and others gave testimony of their ordeal. The following year, local activists, working with the Cambridge Peace Commission, pressed the city council for a vote to make Cambridge a sanctuary city, meaning it would not cooperate with federal agents seeking to arrest and deport unauthorized migrants. It was the fourth such city in the country to do so, joining Berkeley, St. Paul, and Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>In the years that followed, Boston, Somerville, and Chelsea followed Cambridge\u2019s lead. Somerville adopted measures protecting immigrants in 1987, followed by Chelsea in 2007 and Boston in 2014. Elsewhere in Massachusetts, Springfield, Holyoke, Amherst, Northampton, Orleans, and Lawrence adopted similar provisions. Some call themselves \u201csanctuary\u201d towns or cities, while others have avoided the label but adopted various &#8220;welcoming&#8221; policies to encourage immigrants\u2019 integration and cooperation with police and local officials.<\/p>\n<p>Such policies can include prohibitions on police asking individuals about their immigration status, sharing information with or performing the functions of federal immigration authorities, or transferring an individual to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the absence of a judicial warrant. The city of Boston, for example, passed the Trust Act in 2014, which includes all of these provisions. The city continues to cooperate with Homeland Security on major crimes such as human trafficking, child exploitation, and drug and weapons smuggling. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court also affirmed in <em>Lunn v. Commonwealth<\/em> (2017) that there is no basis under state law for police or courts to detain a person solely at the request of ICE and without a criminal warrant.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump has made repeated attempts to withhold federal funds from so-called sanctuary cities through executive orders. In 2017, Chelsea and Lawrence filed suit against Trump\u2019s first executive order, but it was dismissed after Joe Biden became president. Following Trump\u2019s second executive order in 2025, Chelsea sued again, joined by Somerville. The outcome of these lawsuits remains to be seen and will be carefully watched.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69e60c2f496ec .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1697210173131 vcex_69e60c2f496ec\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20 responsive-video-wrap\"><span class=\"wpex-responsive-media\"><iframe title=\"Wallace by Global Boston\" width=\"980\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F334790299&show_artwork=true&maxheight=1000&maxwidth=980\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg wpex-child-inherit-color\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/sample-page\/eras-of-migration\/test-page\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\">Creating a Sanctuary: Jim Wallace<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>In this interview with Laura Loftus, Jim Wallace recalls how members of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church became part of a growing sanctuary movement, providing refuge for a Salvadoran union organizer in 1984.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69e60c2f4a1fc .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1697210190759 vcex_69e60c2f4a1fc\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20 responsive-video-wrap\"><span class=\"wpex-responsive-media\"><iframe title=\"Wolf by Global Boston\" width=\"980\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F334763645&show_artwork=true&maxheight=1000&maxwidth=980\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg wpex-child-inherit-color\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/sample-page\/eras-of-migration\/test-page\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\">Fighting for Sanctuary: Alice Wolf<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>Former Cambridge mayor and city councilor Alice Wolf describes her role in a successful 1985 campaign to make Cambridge a sanctuary city, recounted in this interview with Laura Loftus.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69e60c2f4a941 .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}.vcex-teaser.vcex_69e60c2f4a941 .vcex-teaser-content{background:#ffe100;}<\/style><a class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser vcex-teaser-has-link wpex-inherit-color wpex-no-underline wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1739734293347 vcex_69e60c2f4a941\" href=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/nativism-and-racism\/immigrant-rights-at-the-crossroads\/\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20\"><img width=\"600\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/POIC-rally-crop.png\" class=\"wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/POIC-rally-crop.png 600w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/POIC-rally-crop-300x238.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg\">Latest News: Immigrant Rights at the Crossroads<\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>Under the second Trump administration, the country is likely to see unprecedented changes in immigration laws and policies. Mass deportation, challenges to birthright citizenship, the potential defunding of sanctuary cities, and many other issues are at stake. To keep abreast of this fast-changing landscape, Global Boston offers a curated list of recent articles related to how deportation and other immigration issues are unfolding in greater Boston and at the state level.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/a>[\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69e60c2f4b0d1 .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><a class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser vcex-teaser-has-link wpex-inherit-color wpex-no-underline wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1739734867676 vcex_69e60c2f4b0d1\" href=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/nativism-and-racism\/\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20\"><img width=\"1000\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/GilesMulimBan.jpg\" class=\"wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"A photograph of many individuals protesting in their winter clothing. Many individuals hold various letters to spell out #No Muslim Ban. There are other various signs and posters throughout the photograph, such as one that says, &quot;We won&#039;t turn our backs. Refugees are all welcome.&quot;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/GilesMulimBan.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/GilesMulimBan-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/GilesMulimBan-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg\">Nativism, Racism, and Immigration Restriction<\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>While often described today as an immigrant-friendly city, Boston was once at the forefront of nativist political movements. 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