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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Congress Prepares to Vote on Defunding ‘Sanctuary Cities’

New York Times
By Carl Hulse
October 20, 2015

The Senate is scheduled on Tuesday to vote on whether to take up a measure that would deny federal law enforcement funds to so-called sanctuary cities — hundreds of communities where the authorities don’t automatically seek deportation of undocumented immigrants who come to their attention.

Democrats intend to block the measure, which got new attention after a case in San Francisco in July where a deportee with a felony record who repeatedly re-entered the country was accused of murdering a young woman. The measure is sponsored by Senator David Vitter, the Louisiana Republican running for governor back home.

Democrats and immigration activists have attacked the measure as a flawed response to an immigration crisis that calls for a much more comprehensive approach. Some Republicans have expressed doubts about it as well.

The bill would also impose new five-year mandatory minimum jail sentences on those who return after being convicted of a felony or who are twice convicted of illegally entering the country. The proposed new sentences come as a bipartisan coalition of senators is trying to undo a broad set of existing mandatory minimum sentences as part of a new criminal justice package.


Backers of the criminal justice legislation hope that by giving Republican senators a chance to record a tough-on-crime vote for the sanctuary cities measure, it will clear the way for them to support the separate criminal justice overhaul that would reduce jail time for nonviolent offenders.

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1 comment:

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Let republicans win!