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CA Congressman McClintock Introduces Anti-Sancutary Cities Bill

Congressman Tom McClintock of California and Congressman Darin LaHood from Illinoin have introduced legislation to punish to sanctuary cities for policies which prevent local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities, even if they want to do so. The two Republicans insist the practice puts law enforcement and the public in danger.

Their Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act would withhold certain non-law enforcement federal grant funds from so-called sanctuary cities like San Francisco and New York.

The City of Sacramento has had a policy prohibiting police and other city employees from asking anyone about their immigration status since 1985, and the City Council reaffirmed that status in 2017.

"The sanctuary city policies in California and in other states where sanctuary city policies have proliferated have placed the public and law enforcement at great risk," McClintock said. "Communication between local law enforcement and federal officials is not only good government, it is common sense. We all know the extreme dangers to society posed by cities, counties and states declaring themselves sanctuary jurisdictions and refusing to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement officials. It is unacceptable for these jurisdictions to refuse to cooperate with, and in some cases outright obstruct, the federal agents tasked with removing illegal aliens who have been arrested for a crime."

The bill in it's current form has 19 other co-authors, and McClintock said it has the support of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, the International Union of Police Associations, the AFL-CIO, and the National Association of Police Organizations.

It was originally introduced in early 2018 but failed to get the 60 votes needed to make it past a filibuster. However, there was also some Democratic support for it at that time, including Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan. Stabenow faced political pressure to back the bill.


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