Sanctuary counties... in Kansas.

[hay rick]

Republican presidential candidates and their media surrogates have been all over the "surrogate city" of San Francisco after a jail failed to honor an ICE detention hold on illegal immigrant and convicted felon Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez. Mr. Lopez-Sanchez was released and is now charged with killing Kathryn Steinle.

The media mostly ignores an important context for the story which is that many jurisdictions that nobody would think of as touchy-feely liberal bastions have similar policies on ICE detentions. Frank Cerabino explains in his Palm Beach Post column (http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/news/crime-law/cerabino-pbso-quietly-changes-policy-on-fed-detain/nmzTT/#11aaecef.3656108.735795):

“Had ICE sought the requested legal order or warrant, the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department naturally and always would have complied if that legal order or warrant would have been presented to us,” San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi told CNN.
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Last summer, the sheriffs in three Kansas counties announced they would no longer honor ICE detainers without an accompanying federal warrant signed by a judge.

“We have ceased recognizing any ‘probable cause’ authority in the (detainer) form,” the director of the Shawnee County Department of Corrections wrote last year. “It is our desire never to hold a person beyond the period for which proper lawful authority exists.”

Recurring themes from both "liberal" and "conservative" jurisdictions are uncompensated costs and legal liability for false imprisonment.