California’s sanctuary city laws prevented local Sacramento police from alerting federal immigration officials that a killer illegal migrant was stalking a waitress and should be thrown out of the country. Shalini Thakur, 38, was brutally executed in Sacramento on Tuesday by Rohit Rohit, 22 — despite her filing a restraining order in May…
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Sanctuary law blamed for the tip ICE didn't get, broken by cops for the 150 it did.
“They want you to believe a piece of paper stopped a warning and got a waitress killed, but two counties over that same kind of paper's been getting stepped over a hundred and fifty times so ICE can make its numbers. That's not a wall, that's a turnstile with a sign on it. The label says sanctuary; the ledger says whichever way the wind's blowing that week — and somebody's file still gets carried out the door either way.”
“This is simple: a sanctuary law tied good cops' hands and a woman is dead, full stop, that's the whole — okay, sure, over in Illinois cops apparently found a way around that exact kind of law a hundred and fifty times, but that's a different state, different legislature, different — wait, if they can just get around it, doesn't that mean the hands weren't actually tied? Forget I said that.”
The receipts
DHS says Shalini Thakur's fatal Sacramento shooting was preventable if Biden administration immigration policies hadn't released her alleged killer.
· Local Cops Flout Sanctuary Law to Help ICE Deport Immigrants from the morgue, 25 Aug 2026
· Illinois Is a Sanctuary State, But Cops & Prosecutors Still Secretly Work with ICE: Injustice Watch from the morgue, 25 Aug 2026
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