That bill was introduced almost a year ago by Sessions with several co sponsors and they deserve the credit NOT Trump. Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions and several other Republican senators unveiled legislation Thursday to force “sanctuary cities” to cooperate more closely with federal officials on immigration.
Sessions, chairman of a Senate subcommittee on Immigration and National Interest, was joined by co-sponsors Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in introducing the bill, dubbed the Protecting American lives Act.
The bill would “require state and local jurisdictions to notify the federal government when a criminal alien is in their custody; it will withhold funds from any local jurisdiction that releases an alien after a federal detainer has been placed on them; and it will establish a 5-year minimum prison sentence for deported aliens who attempt to illegally re-enter the United States,” Sessions said in a statement.
The bill is a response to recent Republican and Democratic complaints to the decision of some cities not to cooperate with federal officials when it comes to detaining illegal immigrants. San Francisco, a sanctuary city, ignored federal requests to detain an illegal immigrant, or to at least inform the government if he were released, and that immigrant has been charged in the shooting death of Kate Steinle.
“That bill was introduced almost a year ago by Sessions with several co sponsors and they deserve the credit NOT Trump.”
And you know that Trump had no influence in prompting them to draft this bill exactly how?
The bill was introduced about 10 years ago...