Inhofe voted for the Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act (S.3100), legislation sponsored by Sen. The Democrat in his first year as mayor released a statement this week excoriating Toomey, a Republican, saying the senator’s “inaccurate” statements “are nothing more than fearmongering” and were “pulled straight from Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant playbook”.
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“This tragedy was compounded by the fact that the shooter should never have been on the pier that day”, said Toomey.
Dozens of jurisdictions across the nation have “sanctuary” policies. “At some point, a person needs to go to jail”. It is unacceptable for those who enter our country illegally, and repeatedly, to commit crimes and be released.
Toomey believes that creates a risk if a suspect turns out to be here illegally. As his deportation neared, the federal prison officials transferred him to the San Francisco sheriffm who had an outstanding warrant on him for an old marijuana possession violation.
However, if any of those attacks had taken place in Philadelphia, police would have communicated with federal investigators because none of those examples are undocumented immigrants. The Orlando shooter was born in NY.
Democrats have made the cold calculation that they can win more votes in November by pandering to illegal aliens and their friends and enablers than by being faithful to the lives and fortunes of the millions of law-abiding Americans. For Jim Steinle, last weekend marked the one-year anniversary of his daughter’s murder.
“In contrast, Senator Toomey this week will continue his widely recognized leadership on fighting to keep Pennsylvanians safer from violent crime and terrorism”, he said. But, because San Francisco is a sanctuary city, on April 15th Juan Lopez-Sanchez was released without notifying immigration officials.
“Sanctuary cities are Orwellian in their logic they give extra protection to risky criminals, just because they happen to be in the country illegally”, the senator said after the vote. That begs the question: How would federal authorities know if an immigrant should be detained if they have not been advised of an arrest? Sessions said last summer. ICE thereafter declined to detain the individual.
“It’s an extremely expensive” law, he said. Pat Toomey to bar federal grants from sanctuary cities including Philadelphia is being rejected in a contentious election-year immigration vote.
After his meeting with Kenney, Johnson told The Philadelphia Inquirer: “The mayor and I had a good dialogue”, though Kenney wouldn’t budge on his policy. This is a risky injustice that must be stopped, and I will continue to fight it.
In 2013, a federal court of appeals ruled that immigration detainers do not and can not compel a state or local law enforcement agency to detain suspected aliens subject to removal.
McGinty’s comments come after The Daily Beast reported that while Toomey recently urged President Obama to lift restrictions on the federal government giving military-style equipment to local police, as a House member he voted for an amendment in 2000 that would have gotten rid of the program.
However, Democrats strongly opposed the measures.
“Sanctuary cities impose bad costs on our communities, on our country, including increased crime, and, tragically, lost lives like Kate Steinle’s”, the senator said. In other contexts, Sessions has gone as far as to say officials from sanctuary cities should be prosecuted. They ask Philadelphia police for information on the suspect.
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In 2008, Feingold voted to table another amendment cutting funding for sanctuary cities. Last year, DHS didn’t report bringing any suspected terrorists into custody exclusively based on his or her immigration status.
