sanctuary cities

Cities that strongly oppose the draconian US immigration policies and punitive measures. Typically, “blue” cities in “blue” states. The municipalities in question have enacted (often with some level of state government support) measure to prohibit local law enforcement from collaborating or cooperating with federal immigration enforcement personnel from any agency.

immigrant bussing to sanctuary cities

This was 100% a political optics thing run by red states and red politicians. It consists of sweeping up unhoused people in a red city, or somewhere in a red state (most typically, FL and TX, as the governors there are extremely supportive of draconian immigration policies for political reasons - despite the fact that said hostile policies are actually actively harmful to their regional economies), sticking them onto Greyhound buses to major “blue” cities, waiting for the unhoused population of those recipient cities to explode, and then pointing at the completely synthetic situation as evidence of gross mismanagement by blue city/state politicians. It’s not being done as aggressively right now because it’s simply not the currently biggest political hot button in the US right now.