Opinion | A Test of Sanctuary City Empathy

To hear Democrats tell it, the decision by Texas, Arizona and Florida to relocate aliens to sanctuary cities is a project of abject cruelty. One Massachusetts Democratic legislator labeled it “morally criminal,” MSNBC host Chris Hayes called it “deeply, deeply sick,” and Sen. Dick Durbin (D. Ill.) criticized it as “pathetic.”

The Democratic politicians running the recipient cities are no fans either. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called it “un-American,” while New York Mayor Eric Adams characterized it as an “erosion of basic human rights.” Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser complained it was “a crisis that is certainly not of our making.”