Sanctuary City Policy and Kirk's Fight Over Deportation

Showing 26 Sanctuary Cities videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Sanctuary city policy became one of Charlie Kirk's sharpest points of conflict with local and state officials who pledged to resist federal deportation enforcement. He singled out Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes as the top target of Turning Point Action's 2026 campaign to remove them from office specifically over their refusal to cooperate with deporting illegal immigrants who had committed crimes in the state, while separately arguing Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's public refusal to cooperate with mass deportations should be treated as a prosecutable offense rather than a political statement. Kirk escalated the argument further after ACLU executive director Anthony Romero appeared on MSNBC describing a coordinated plan, which Romero called a firewall of freedom, to help cities and states sever cooperation with federal immigration authorities entirely, comparing the scale of that resistance to the schism of the Civil War. Tom Homan extended the fight into a direct confrontation with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, who publicly acknowledged harboring someone with uncertain immigration status, an admission Kirk argued exposed Murphy to prosecution under federal harboring statutes. Homan also reported attacks on ICE agents had risen more than 1,000 percent as sanctuary jurisdictions like Portland, Chicago, and Los Angeles became flashpoints, prompting plans to triple enforcement resources specifically in those cities.