Politico
By Ted Hesson
June 29, 2017
TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION SELL: The House is expected to take up two immigration bills today, one that would crack down on so-called sanctuary cities and another that would increase penalties for people who reenter the U.S. multiple times after a deportation.
President Donald Trump threw his support behind both bills this week. On Wednesday, Trump met at the White House with victims of crimes allegedly committed by undocumented immigrants and lauded the Republican lawmakers who crafted the legislation, including House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.). The White House later issued a press release that tallied Trump’s accomplishments in the enforcement area, from increased arrests to (yet unfulfilled) plans to build a border wall.
The bills should sail through the Republican-controlled House, but odds are that’s as far as they will go. In recent years, House Republicans have ushered through similar bills only to see them go nowhere in the Senate, where Democrats would shoot them down. Morning Shift consulted three Senate Democratic aides who all said they expect to see the same thing happen this time. Republicans will “run into a resistance wall if they try to jam these two pieces through,” one aide said. Read the “No Sanctuary for Criminals Act” here and “Kate’s Law” here.
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