Not only does Jindal think mayors should be criminally charged, he says they ought to be held civilly liable as well.
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On Boston Herald radio, the mayor said, with tongue in cheek, that “Sheriff Bobby Jindal” hasn’t put him in handcuffs yet.
Bobby Jindal’s immigration broadside against Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone on Monday was “an act of desperation”, Senate President Stanley Rosenberg said, before blasting the feds for failing to reform the nation’s immigration system.
Bobby Jindal address the crowd as he announces his candidacy for President in Kenner, La., Wednesday, June 24, 2015.
Still, Curtatone said the case that touched off the current debate on sanctuary cities, the killing July 1 of a 32-year-old women in San Francisco, allegedly by a man deported five times and released by city officials despite a request to hold him by federal immigration officials, is a “terrible tragedy”.
Curatone also taunted Jindal for his measly showing in the presidential polls, noting that he’s failed to get over 2 percent.
Jindal said in an interview with the Boston Herald Radio this week that “absolutely, I would hold [local mayors] as an accomplice”. “So that families, victims’ families could sue”, Jindal said. His plan names mayors as accessories to crime, for their role in shielding illegal aliens from the federal law, Breitbart reported.
“The Mayor has set up a safe haven for illegal immigrants in his city and his laissez-faire attitude is flat out unsafe”. These cities, which pepper the U.S., came to attention lately because of a recent murder in San Francisco.
With his remarks, it looks like Jindal has jumped on the bandwagon.
The majority of the Republican presidential field has since condemned “sanctuary cities”.
They will be joined on the main stage by Cuban American Florida senator Marco Rubio, libertarian conservative Kentucky senator and physician Rand Paul, New Jersey governor Chris Christie and Ohio governor John Kasich.
In an unusual move backed by the Republican National Committee, Fox decided to rely on national polling data to split the contenders in two groups. Not everyone agrees with Jindal’s bill. “I really hope the federal government will get on this, stop bickering and fix it”. “Come and get me, I’m right here”.
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Some cities go further than others, barring local police from asking for proof of citizenship and from arresting immigrants who lack documentation unless they are suspected of committing other criminal offenses.
