From New York to Chicago and the Denver suburbs, migrant gangs are mugging, raping, robbing stores, running brothels next door to elementary schools, and threatening apartment dwellers with guns to take over residential buildings, all without fear of being deported. The gangs are turning neighborhoods into hellholes.

Blame insane "sanctuary" laws.

The word "sanctuary" sounds charitable. Don't be fooled. It doesn't mean welcoming the downtrodden. It actually bars police from sharing arrest information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement so that the agency can take illegals arrested for violent crimes into custody and deport them.

Sanctuary laws shield criminals from removal. Eleven states and some 600 towns and cities, mostly controlled by Democrats, have them. Because of these laws, migrant lawbreakers go through the revolving-door justice system and are back on the streets to strike again.

Americans have a choice: On Saturday, presidential candidate Donald Trump promised to work with Congress to outlaw sanctuary jurisdictions.

The other choice is Vice President Kamala Harris. Though she's apparently taken a vow of........

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