The Briefing Room
General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: Sanguine on July 29, 2019, 12:01:37 am
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Republican North Carolina Rep. Ted Budd introduced a bill Thursday that would allow victims of crimes perpetrated by illegal immigrants to sue sanctuary cities if that is where the crime occurred.
The Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act allows for victims of any crimes up until 10 years ago to file a lawsuit with a sanctuary city. Illegal immigrants with past criminal convictions made up about 74% of arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2018, according to Pew Research Center.
“I’ve found that sanctuary cities’ failure to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E) is reckless and has had a real cost on society, both economically and in terms of human lives,†Budd said in a press release Thursday....
https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/25/ted-budd-victims-illegal-immigrants-sue-sanctuary-cities/
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Such a lawsuit should already be permitted and, if certain things are proven, successful. But making this bill retroactive could make it an unconstitutional ex post facto law (unless that only applies to criminal matters).
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Anybody can sue anybody for anything. But ...didn't another rogue judge just throw out a valid lawsuit by Sandman against the WaPo? All it takes is a few hundred/thousand more leftist judges like that and this "bill" won't amount to a hill beans.