Cut-off of federal funds to sanctuary cities is possible immediately upon inauguration(T)

americanthinker.com ^ | 11/25/2016 | Thomas Lifson

[rktman]

Thanks to a little-noticed action of Texas Congressman John Culberson taken last July, President-elect Trump will able to cut-off federal law enforcement funding to 9 sanctuary cities, plus the entire state of California, immediately upon taking the oath of office. Brenda Walker of Vdare explains:

Because of the foresight of a Texas Congressman, President Trump will be able to end certain funding to the largest sanctuary cities plus the entire state of California on his first day as President. Working quietly, Culberson convinced the existing Justice Department to certify those cities as non-compliant with federal law, thereby making them vulnerable to loss of money from Washington.

[rktman]

Gee, that'd really suck huh? For them. Paying some entity to NOT perform their tasks/duties under the law. Sounds a little backerds to me. Cut 'em off. And, since they use public roads, bridges and highways, could we cut off those funds as well since the are being used in the commission of a crime?

[Doogle]

Please make it so..,

[glock rocks]

So much win!

[onedoug]

It’ll give LAPD the chance to do absolutely nothing.

[Degaston]

If he was able to persuade Loretta Lynch then what’s going to happen when Jeff Sessions is in that role? The federal government cannot afford to give any money to any sanctuary cities until the national debt is paid off.

[umgud]

It doesn’t matter, these illegals are net contributors to our economy. Right?

[Reno89519]

Everyone needs to press this to ensure there is no wiggle room to not do this January 20, 2017.

[rktman]

That’s the argument I keep hearing. “So what if they’re ‘undocumented’. They’re paying taxes in one form or another.” So.

[spokeshave]

If he was able to persuade Loretta Lynch

Then what happens when Lynch reads about it in the newspapers...?

Can she decide to "uncertify" the sanctuary cities...?

Thanks in advance.

[bray]

Since the first group of deportations are the most violent, guess where they will be heading? Enjoy being a sanctuary citizen.

Pray America woke

[ctdonath2]

Al Capone was jailed on income tax evasion. Had he paid, that still wouldn’t excuse the murders & other crimes he was responsible for.

[Liz]

Donald has got to trash all of Obama's immigration atrocities like DACA and DAPA...and root out the Democrats' plans to increase their votes w/ immigration. The Dumbocrats voting base is shrinking so they are flooding the states w/ foreigners.

And get this....Obama's vainglorious dream of a permanent Democrat majority didn't work out thanks to American voters. Too bad.

2016 map exhibits the Republican Party expansion.
2014 map is Congressional results when the Democrats got slaughtered.

2016 map was better than we could have ever imagined.

[kearnyirish2]

Be careful; they aren’t finished. They just have to move their voters around to see that the majority of votes translates into more electoral votes. The millions of additional Hillary votes in CA have to be spread around to other states; haven’t they already taken Colorado & Nevada in this fashion?

[Pollster1]

President Trump has a big decision to make: Should he cut off their funds in his first day as president, or should he wait until after the weekend and do it on Monday, January 23, 2017? That’s why the American people elected him - to make those choices in the best interest of America.

[Degaston]

https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2016/1607.pdf - list of 10 jurisdictions (8 local; plus California/Connecticut)

https://oig.justice.gov/testimony/t160927.pdf - OIG report to Congress

https://www.justice.gov/opa/file/897651/download - another DOJ official makes a report

http://culberson.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2016-7-7_section_1373_-_doj_letter_to_culberson.pdf - Letter to this congressman on this topic

https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/guidance-state-local-assistance-immigration-enforcement.pdf - DHS whitepaper

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1373 - the United States Code on this topic. For convenience, I’m including the text herein. Note that wherever you see “Immigration and Naturalization Service” (INS) that those functions are now performed by DHS-ICE as the federal government did some restructuring of departments/agencies to move all such functions over to ICE during the Bush43 administration.

8 U.S. Code § 1373 - Communication between government agencies and the Immigration and Naturalization Service

(a) In general
Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, a Federal, State, or local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.
(b) Additional authority of government entitiesNotwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, no person or agency may prohibit, or in any way restrict, a Federal, State, or local government entity from doing any of the following with respect to information regarding the immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual:
(1) Sending such information to, or requesting or receiving such information from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
(2) Maintaining such information.
(3) Exchanging such information with any other Federal, State, or local government entity.
(c) Obligation to respond to inquiries
The Immigration and Naturalization Service shall respond to an inquiry by a Federal, State, or local government agency, seeking to verify or ascertain the citizenship or immigration status of any individual within the jurisdiction of the agency for any purpose authorized by law, by providing the requested verification or status information.

[Whenifhow]

Not only will the funds for sanctuary cities be cut, the cities will have to pay back money to the federal government!

See here

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tm1_fORglnI

[Liz]

They can try.......

[Liz]

Nice.......

[be-baw]

“CULBERSON: Attorney General Lynch has already notified every city and state in the country that unless they cooperate 100 percent of the time with requests for immigration information about criminal aliens in local custody, then those local jurisdictions lose all their federal law enforcement money.”

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