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By Matt Murphy
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
A Massachusetts state law banning corporations from making political donations survived a legal challenge on Thursday when a Superior Court judge ruled against two local business owners seeking to overturn the restriction.
DARTMOUTH, Mass. — The mayor of the commonwealth's original sanctuary city and the county sheriff who has said elected officials that harbor illegal immigrants should be arrested took their beef to the South Coast, sparring over immigration at a University of Massachusetts School of Law forum Thursday.
"We've heard it a lot — sanctuary cities are safer than other cities — well, if I was Mohamed Atta or one of the Tsarnaev brothers, I'd probably be seeking out a sanctuary city," Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson said at the beginning of the 90-minute forum, billed as a "battle of ideas." "I wouldn't be targeting that city, because that's my cover."