Watchdog.org Podcast

Donald Trump has made immigration the popular - and populist - issue in the Republican presidential primary race, and other Republicans are following his lead. On this edition of the Watchdog Podcast, hosts Eric Boehm and Will Swaim take a look at some recent comments made by Republican governors about one key aspect of the immigration debate: what to do about sanctuary cities. Sanctuary cities generally include the largest cities in America, as you'd expect -- LA, New York, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco, as well as a couple of hundred smaller towns and cities.  They typically bar local employees (including law enforcement) from cooperating with federal officials to deport illegal immigrants. They boomed in the 1980s as wars in Central America sent tens of thousands into the U.S. NAFTA produced a second boom, this time many Mexicans, in the 1990s. And Mexico's drug war generated yet another boom in migration into the 2000s. But after an illegal immigrant killed a young woman in San Francisco ea