Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions is demanding that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano close safe havens for illegal immigrants, otherwise called “sanctuary” cities or counties, a list of which includes Durham.

Durham voted on Oct. 20, 2003, to become a sanctuary city, though some city officials later tried to dispute that’s what they did. Read the resolution in its entirety below and decide for yourself.

Sessions was reacting to criticism of Alabama’s immigration-reform law from Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, pointing out that Cook County, Ill, (i.e., Chicago) is among the most notorious of jurisdictions who, like Durham, are thumbing their noses at national immigration laws:

Sessions and Republican senators Charles Grassley of Iowa, John Cornyn of Texas and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma sent a letter to Napolitano on Wednesday requesting that the administration take action against Cook County and other sanctuary localities “that purposefully and deliberately undermine the laws of the United States and offer sanctuary to illegal aliens who have broken our laws by entering the country illegally.”