“Like all mandatory minimum sentences, passing Kate’s Law might feel good, but it won’t make us safer”, said Molly Gill, FAMM’s director of federal legislative affairs, in a statement this week. The second measure would have increased the maximum sentence for illegal re-entry into the country, with up to a 10-year penalty for an individual denied admission or deported at least three times.
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“They can still go to court, but they wouldn’t go to court against the local police or the local municipality”, Toomey said ahead of the vote. “Americans from both parties also understand that extreme sanctuary city policies can inflict incredible pain on innocent victims and their families”, he said.
Steinle’s death set off a fresh wave of debate over immigration policies and the merits of so-called sanctuary cities – local governments that don’t require law enforcement to work with immigration authorities.
Kate’s Law would establish mandatory minimum sentences for illegal aliens who had been previously removed from the United States and then re-caught inside the United States. “You shouldn’t get federal funds if you ignore federal law”.
Cruz named his bill “Kate’s Law” after a San Francisco woman, Kate Steinle, who died a year ago after being shot by a homeless man from Mexico who had been deported five times.
Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, the man charged in the shooting, had already been deported from the USA five times when he was released by the San Francisco sheriff’s department after a drug charge was dismissed.
Sen. Ted Cruz is renewing his push to impose mandatory minimum prison sentences on people who re-enter the USA illegally – a move some say would deter illegal immigration but others warn would lead to overstuffed federal prisons. It would cost billions, billions of new dollars, increase the prison population and siphon funding from state and local law enforcement.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said incarcerating illegal immigrants who repeatedly sneak into the USA after deportations would end up overcrowding prisons and cost Americans billions of dollars. “It is time to confront the sobering issue of illegal aliens, many of whom have serious criminal backgrounds, but are allowed to re-enter this country with impunity”, Cruz said in the Senate on Wednesday. Ted Cruz, who was sponsoring the Kate’s Law bill, said on July 1, the one-year anniversary of Steinle’s killing.
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“Because of the Obama administration’s weak immigration enforcement policies, we are failing to adequately deter deported illegal aliens from illegally reentering the country, especially those with violent criminal records”. Today, more than 300 cities are needlessly endangering the lives of their law-abiding residents by refusing to enforce our current immigration laws and carry out deportations issued by the federal government. He served a term in federal prison and was released to San Francisco, which asked to prosecute him on a years-old drug warrant. “We should come together and protect the American people”. The city of San Francisco, a notorious and blatant sanctuary city, let the killer free from a detainer just days before he murdered Steinle. “We all appreciate the many contributions that immigrants have made to our country over the years”, McConnell said.
