Posted on 11/17/2016 5:22:37 PM PST by DOC44
A Texas state senator has filed a bill to “eliminate Sanctuary Cities in the State of Texas.” The bill will require local governments and law enforcement agencies uphold current immigration laws.
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Bout time...now let’s see if it passes and signed by the Gov.
The affect of Leadership.
The Winning continues.
Go Trump
Good. The Rule - of Law appeals to most Citizens.
A Texas state senator has filed a bill to “eliminate Sanctuary Cities in the State of Texas.” The bill will require local governments and law enforcement agencies uphold current immigration laws.
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I’m looking forward to a complete shutdown nationwide of this “sanctuary” BS. Cut off all Federal funds to all municipalities, cities, and counties that do not enforce Federal laws regarding illegal aliens.
Yes, but um...isn’t it the feds job have agents to enforce immigration law. I mean this is the standing law already correct?
With Slick Rick “They’ll just buy taller ladders” Perry out of office, this might have a chance to pass.
I hope Sanctuary cities do not change their policies.
I saw today on Lou Dobbs that the total Federal funds that go to Sanctuary cities is $650B. If Trump and Congress really stop all that funding, he has just eliminated the Federal Deficit completely. Save $650 Billion/yr ? Heck yeah !
Use a small fraction of that money to hire additional ICE and marshals to go into those cities and round up the illegals without the help of the local police. We already have most of the data necessary to track these people down if we just make an effort to put it together. Let the cities claim they are “sanctuaries” but there will be no more illegals for them to protect. Meanwhile, we will have gutted the federal school lunch program, Medicaid, Foodstamps, and a bunch of other federal welfare programs without needing to pass legislation to eliminate them. Hire private contractors directly to fix roads and bridges without the money passing through local government sticky fingers.
US Rep Culberson has been working under the radar and has already prepared laws through the JustUS Dept whereby on Jan 20th, Trump can demand that Sanctuary cities either cease their obstruction OR they will get no further Fed funds for policing... ALSO if they then choose that route they have to reimburse the Fed Gmt for the last 25 years of all funds they received.
I just heard this guy on the radio and he is great! And sneaky!! Yayyy!
LAPD has no qualms pulling over blacks and arresting them for federal gun violations or drugs. But illegals get a pass. This is another example of both putting foreigners ahead of citizens and how leftists undermine black people.
Just saying.....
$650 BILLION a year....does NOT go to these cities.
I don't know what the number is...but it ain't your number.
That is what Lou Dobbs reported today. I was surprised, too. In an article over the weekend, San Fransisco claimed they will lose $1.6B and that didn’t include medicaid, school lunches, federal student aid grants, food stamps, etc. They were only counting the loss of highway funds and some police department grants. There are 300 sanctuary cities, though only a dozen as large as SF.
His show will repeat on Fox Business in a little under an hour. Check it out.
Taken to the extreme, Trump’s policy would have a major impact on Denver. The city received more than $175 million from federal sources in 2015 — a big chunk of the city’s total annual budget of about $1.9 billion. Aurora received about $11.5 million in federal funds out of its 2015 budget of roughly $627 million.
Trump has pledged to deport millions of immigrants living in the country illegally. The Justice Department released a memo in May saying Chicago could stand to lose nearly $29 million in annual justice grants if found to be in violation of federal laws on detaining people to be turned over for possible deportation.
If San Diego County falls under the definition of “sanctuary city,” it could lose up to $724.3 million in federal funding under President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed immigration policies.
The city of San Diego could lose $8.1 million.
Not going to be $650 Billion total.....per year.
This law would quickly end sanctuary cities as they couldn’t afford to payout the lawsuits. Brilliant! Since even some states are too liberal to do a law like Texas maybe the feds could do something like this suggestion.
Bet you Strauss will never allow it to come to the floor for a vote. House really needs to get rid of him as Majority leader.
That is because past bills in Congress were very limited in the funding they threatened to cut off. Largely just grants to law enforcement, since that is the area where refusal to assist ICE was located. But “federal funds” can be a MUCH more sweeping figure. Nobody has even contemplated removing federal college grants, school lunch finding, section 8 housing assistance, medicaid matching funds, etc.
The federal budget includes over two trillion dollars of welfare and block grants to cities and states. Assuming 1/3rd of that is going to the major population centers seems very reasonable to me. I don’t think these cities have any idea just how vulnerable they have left themselves by embracing the federal nanny state.
Fair enough..
As a young man of 17, I hit a tree
on a snowmobile at about 70. (ten
feet tall and bullet proof). Laying
there in traction, wondering what
I would be able to do with my life.
How am I going to make a living,
raise a family, be a contributing
member to this great society as had
been taught to me by my hard working
parents.
Well, I figured out a way. I got up
everyday (the permanent injuries sustained
we’re a paralyzed left arm and shoulder) but
I went to work. Sometimes 18 hours a day, in a
state hundreds of miles from my home. For 4!
years. When my children were young, I couldn’t
even pick them up, or carry them from the car
to the house, if they fell asleep.
Well, much to my frustration, the years have
finally caught up with me. My back hurts so bad
my wife has to tie my shoes.
I can honestly tell you that I can no longer
function in a working environment. (my hands
are falling asleep as I’m typing this).
I have a 401K that goes up and down more than a pumpjack. I’m 61 now,
too young to retire, and I am on Medicaid (for the prescriptions I truly need, and I’m on food stamps
for the food I truly need, (can’t lift a rifle to
shoot a rabbit).
These programs you seem to wish would go
away, are not being taken advantage of by
everyone who uses them. There are
those like me that depend on these
programs.
I apologize for the format.
The law is the law and as long as it is in force, it needs to be enforced - silly Bill or not....
Instead of these silly Bills, remove funds and prosecute those who make the sanctuary decisions for actively conspiring to harm National Security...
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