The Senate will vote next week on legislation that would block congressional funding to cities and municipalities that don’t comply with immigration-related requests from the federal government.
Since the killing in San Francisco last July of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle and the arrest in her death of an illegal immigrant from Mexico with multiple deportations, Republicans in Congress have sought to punish local jurisdictions that have “sanctuary” policies limiting their cooperation with requests from federal immigration officials.
Police charged Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez with Steinle’s murder. The San Francisco sheriff at the time of Steinle’s death, Ross Mirkarimi, carried out a policy that barred communication with immigration authorities in virtually all circumstances.
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., is the sponsor of the sanctuary city bill coming before the Senate for a procedural vote as early as next Wednesday. He describes the bill as intended to address what he views as a public safety issue.
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Along with Toomey’s bill, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., scheduled a vote next week on legislation from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, that also is meant to address Steinle’s death.
That measure, known as “Kate’s Law,” would increase mandatory minimum prison sentences for immigrants convicted of repeatedly entering the country illegally.
“It defies common sense and we need to end these policies for the sake of our security,” says @SenToomey of “sanctuary” cities.
In October, the Senate voted on these two measures as one combined bill, but the effort failed after Democrats expressed opposition especially to “Kate’s Law.”
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