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Author: Shefali Desai

Shefali Milczarek-Desai is a Rhodes Scholarship finalist, former Arizona Supreme Court law clerk and VONA Fellow. Her book-length manuscript was selected by author Lidia Yuknavitch as a finalist in the 2016 Kore Press memoir competition, and her work appears in the UCLA Women’s Law Journal, the Arizona Journal for International and Comparative Law, HipMama and the anthology This Bridge We Call Home. She currently is co-authoring a legal paper on federal and state regulatory power over so-called sanctuary cities, litigating an asylum case and finalizing her hybrid memoir.
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The current administration would have us believe that so-called sanctuary jurisdictions are making cities less safe. There is one (very big) catch: the claims are untrue.

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