GOP Sen. Proposes Transferring Sanctuary Cities Funding To Construction of Trump's Border Wall

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

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Rachel del Guidice / June 29, 2017

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One Republican senator is proposing a new solution for sanctuary cities that do not follow the law: take some of their federal funding and transfer it to a budget for President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall.

“How many innocent American lives must be lost before security becomes the first priority of immigration?” Sen. Luther Strange, R-Ala., asked the audience at an event Thursday at The Heritage Foundation titled “Securing the Border and Protecting Our Communities.” 

“How many criminal aliens have to be released shy of justice being served for the rule of law to be affirmed as the first priority of a functioning society?”

Strange’s legislation, introduced in May, would keep federal funds from being given to areas with sanctuary cities that fail to comply with the Department of Justice in following immigration law or who punish small businesses for entering to bid on Trump’s border wall.

Strange explained:

    My bill has two simple outcomes. Sanctuary jurisdictions can either follow the law or fund the wall. Failure to comply with federal immigration authorities and continued efforts to interfere with the lawful pursuit of border wall contracts by local businesses will be met with the loss of federal transportation and infrastructure grant funding. These funds will go towards the construction of our border wall.

[And it gets even Better: We got this guy as a Two-fer for making Jeff Sessions the AG.]

Strange, 64, was appointed to serve in Congress Feb. 9, following the confirmation of former Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., to serve as attorney general.

[libertybele]

It's an excellent idea and certainly would bring in a tremendous amount of money to help build that wall.  Perhaps we should start calling our representatives in Congress and the Senate and start demanding the wall be built with monies that would go to sanctuary states and cities.

California -    $239.5 million
New York -      191.1 million
Illinois              91.3 million
Pennsylvania     65.2 million
Maryland           35.0 million

That's a total of $622.1 million!!!

Sanctuary cities received $27 billion from the federal government in fiscal year 2016.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/07/studies-detail-how-much-funding-sanctuary-cities-stand-to-lose.html

[XenaLee]

It's an excellent idea and certainly would bring in a tremendous amount of money to help build that wall.  Perhaps we should start calling our representatives in Congress and the Senate and start demanding the wall be built with monies that would go to sanctuary states and cities.

California -    $239.5 million
New York -      191.1 million
Illinois              91.3 million
Pennsylvania     65.2 million
Maryland           35.0 million

That's a total of $622.1 million!!!

Sanctuary cities received $27 billion from the federal government in fiscal year 2016.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/07/studies-detail-how-much-funding-sanctuary-cities-stand-to-lose.html

It is, indeed, a great idea.  And why the hell should cities in favor of breaking current US laws be rewarded for their bad behavior?  Only under a Democrat leftist president would that happen.   Let's end the madness (or that faction of it, at least)....by all means.

[Smokin Joe]

Well, that's one way to get the Mexicans to pay for it. Bet the bro's in the 'hood won't be happy about that stuff, neither.

[the_doc]

Wow, I like this idea (even though I would ordinarily want to save the money saved by cutting off the sanctuary cities.)

Of course, we do need the wall, but the thing I like the most about Luther Strange's idea is the fact that it gives the sanctuary cities a well-deserved slap in the face.