Baker won’t back statewide sanctuary for illegals

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Baker won’t back statewide sanctuary for illegals
Thursday, August 6, 2015
Matt Stout

Gov. Charlie Baker today batted down a proposal to offer state-wide sanctuary protections to illegal immigrants, saying that option should be left to cities and towns.

“We have a perfect example of why I don’t think we should have statewide policy on this,” Baker said at an unrelated State House press conference, pointing to a pledge by Lawrence Mayor Dan Rivera to not seek sanctuary status in his immigrant-heavy city and, conversely, moves by Mayor Joe Curtatone of Somerville, one of six Bay State sanctuary communities.

“I’m a former local official, so my view on this stuff is local officials for the most part, I believe, are most accountable to the people in their communities and they should make the decisions with respect to what they want to do and how they want to handle this,” Baker said.

The Herald reported earlier this week that lawmakers were quietly pushing a bill to ban public agencies from giving or sharing information on illegal immigrants with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement unless forced to do so by a court or a federal order.

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1. Whoever wrote that title should be informed that "illegal" is an adjective...

...and that in English, adding an "s" to an adjective doesn't make it a plural noun.

If somebody really likes using naked adjectives as standins for nouns and likes to pluralize said adjectives by adding an "s", they can get away with it a lot easier in Spanish than they can in English.

Doing it in English just makes the person appear illiterate.

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2. Its also a noun

yes its an adjective, but its been used as a noun for a long time. Grammatically, the sentence is correct. You would argue that the use of the word illegal is disparaging, and against MLA reccomendations, but the use of illegal as a noun is ok.

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3. Using it as a synonym for undocumented immigrants is dehumanizing, much as the disgusting Herald

intends.