(The Center Square) – The New Hampshire Senate advanced several bills to curb the flow of migrants in the state, including a move to ban so-called “sanctuary cities.”
The bill, which would prohibit New Hampshire towns and cities from declaring themselves as sanctuaries for asylum seekers, was passed by the Senate on a party-line vote on March 7. “If we need to vet the mostly good immigrants from foreign countries from the not-so-good, that’s what we need to do,” said Sen. Bill Gannon, R-Sandown, as reported by WMUR9.
The term “sanctuary city” refers to a resolution to protect asylum seekers from law enforcement and deportation. No New Hampshire municipalities have declared themselves as a “sanctuary” for migrants, although Portsmouth and Durham considered the move in 2017.
The idea of threatening measures against municipalities that adopt such a policy has garnered previous support in the state Legislature in both
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