“Cities that refuse to comply with immigration officials and release dangerous criminals back into our communities put innocent American lives at risk,” Rep. Kevin Yoder says. “If these cities wish to continue to subvert the law they will do so without the support of American taxpayers. The heartbreaking tragedy in San Francisco was preventable and we must do everything we can to ensure that it never happens again,” he added.
“I’m sorry I do not know the answer to that question,” Johnson responded when asked by Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH) during a House Judiciary Committee hearing if the administration had reached out to Kathryn Steinle’s family. Chabot encouraged the administration to reach out to the Steinle family.
Johnson stressed that he is opposed to mandating detainer compliance. “I have said and I will say when I have to next testify before Congress on Tuesday that the best way to bring about what we want to do is through a cooperative relationship where we’re each agreeing to cooperate and partner with the other. I think that is the best and most effective way for us to do this.”
“If there are not ‘sanctuary cities’ then I suppose the multiple bills that have been introduced to cut off funding for sanctuary cities will be adopted unanimously?” Sen. Jeff Sessions spokesman Stephen Miller asked rhetorically in a statement to Breitbart News Monday.
A majority of likely voters say action should be taken against jurisdictions with sanctuary policies for illegal immigrants, according to a new Rasmussen Reports survey.
That’s a staggering degree of lawlessness perpetrated against the American people by our elected officials. People should be going to jail over this, not just sweating through press conferences while Democrats and their business allies frantically try to change the subject.
On July 12 Meet The Press host Chuck Todd responded to the groundswell of Donald Trump’s opposition to illegal immigration has garnered by pointing out that Jeb Bush could get around being confronted by Trump by simply refusing to take part in any debate in which Trump is allowed.
CIS’ report, authored by Jessica Vaughan, reveals that 63 percent of the 8,145 released criminal immigrants — in 276 jurisdictions from January 1, 2014, to August 31, 2014 — had “serious prior criminal records” and a fourth had a prior felony charge or conviction.
Because he’s a left-wing propagandist working for a left-wing propaganda outlet, CNN New Day anchor Chris Cuomo told the world today that sanctuary cities don’t exist. The description is a “misnomer,” Cuomo said. “They are not safe havens,” Cuomo added,
During her opening statement on her Saturday Fox News Channel show “Justice w/ Judge Jeanine,” host Jeanine Pirro hammered the concept of sanctuary cities, calling it “wrong” and “fundamentally flawed.” “There are more than 200 sanctuary cities in the United States
On Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC, director of American Civil Liberties Union Cecillia Wang reacted to the media’s treatment of San Francisco, as well as other cities, for being a sanctuary city. Sanctuary cities are now under fire after Kate
Illegal alien and Kathryn Steinle’s alleged murderer, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, would have been treated in Connecticut exactly as San Francisco treated him. Apparently, this is fine with sanctuary city New Haven Mayor Toni Harp.
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said there was no “rational reason” for sanctuary cities while saying border security doesn’t necessarily mean “you have to build fences and walls” and advocating for allowing illegal immigrants in the US to become guest
Donald Trump has become the center of a new street art campaign, with work that can be seen all around Los Angeles. Today, Friday July 10, the Republican presidential candidate will be speaking to Hollywood conservatives at an event, and the Coalition for Humane Immigrants Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), has plans to protest.
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) discussed his legislation that would block sanctuary cities from receiving federal law enforcement grants. Cotton said, “Too many families have faced this kind of tragedy. Crime at the hands of
“Any violent crime is tragic, but the fact that the senseless death in San Francisco arose directly from a ‘sanctuary city’ deliberately obstructing policies to remove illegal immigrants who have committed crimes is appalling and inexcusable,” Shelby, the Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce-Justice-Science, says.
The murder of a young woman on a San Francisco pier at the hands of an illegal immigrant has highlighted the dangers of sanctuary cities policies, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) explained in an interview with Brietbart News.
Democrats are abandoning their defense of sanctuary cities in the wake of the recent shooting death of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle on San Francisco’s Pier 14 by an illegal alien and convicted felon who was released by local authorities.
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, discussed the alleged murder of 32-year-old Kate Steinle by five-time deportee Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez and said “ultra-liberal government who refuses to comply with the
His bill, introduced Wednesday, comes on the heels of the murder of Kate Steinle at the hands of a multiple-deportee, multiple felon who was released from custody due to San Francisco’s sanctuary polices. “The senseless murder of a young woman in San Francisco last week tragically illustrates that the politicization of the immigration debate has now swamped even common-sense efforts to protect public safety,” Cotton said. “It is unacceptable that cities would issue ordinances that explicitly aim to frustrate federal immigration laws that are supposed to keep illegal immigrant felons off the streets.”
Wednesday night on Newsmax TV’s “Newsmax Prime,” Rep. Steve King (R-IA) said liberals in San Francisco who don’t communicate with federal immigration officials due to sanctuary city policies “have blood on their hand” for the alleged murder of 32-year-old Kate Steinle
Days after Mexican illegal alien Fran Sanchez confessed to murdering Kathryn Steinle in San Francisco, the Center for Immigration studies published a highly detailed map revealing the counties, cities, and even entire states where officials defy U.S. immigration law.
“If not for sanctuary cities and the Obama administration’s continued destruction in other areas of immigration enforcement, Kate and others surely would be alive today,” Sen. Jeff Sessions said on the Senate floor. “Her death could have been prevented. But the extreme open borders ideology that rejects even the deportation of criminals — that is, people who commit other crimes than the crime of entering the country illegally — has led to her death, as it has led to the death of many others.”
Huckabee says the country must address the growing problem of illegal immigration.
Barletta’s bill, the Mobilizing Against Sanctuary Cities Act, would strip federal funding for a minimum of one year to any state or locality that has laws or policies in place obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration law. The jurisdiction would only regain their federal funding once the attorney general verifies full compliance.
