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Make California Safe Again: Bill Introduced to Cut Sanctuary Cities’ Federal Funding
California’s sanctuary state law puts everyone in danger
By Katy Grimes, February 3, 2025 7:33 am
It is time for Congress to hold sanctuary cities accountable.
Sanctuary State California may be about to get a comeuppance: A proposed bill in the U.S. Senate would allow the victims of crimes committed by illegal alien to sue the sanctuary cities that facilitated that crime.
Sanctuary city and state policies are not supported by voters or residents, yet leftist politicians continue to push these dangerous and deadly policies. The recently signed Laken Riley Act which President Trump just signed into law January 29th. This law mandates the federal detention of illegal immigrants who are accused of theft, burglary, assaulting a law enforcement officer, and any crime that causes death or serious bodily injury.
It’s time to Make California Safe Again.
U.S. Congressman Chuck Edwards (NC-11) re-introduced the Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act to provide justice for victims who are harmed by an illegal immigrant due to sanctuary city policies. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC),and nine other Republicans, is leading the Senate companion bill, S. 185, titled the “Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act,” Breitbart reported.
“Sanctuary cities have shielded many of the nearly 650,000 criminal illegal immigrants in the United States from facing the consequences for their violent crimes against innocent Americans for too many years. Sanctuary cities cannot continue to jeopardize Americans’ safety without being held accountable for their role in the illegal immigrant crime crisis we are facing today,” Congressman Edwards said. “The Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act that I’m re-introducing will finally hold these communities responsible when their harmful, illegal policies result in a crime against an American citizen, and will allow the victim to take legal action against counties, cities, or towns for the dangerous policies that directly led to their harm.”
“For far too long, we have watched local jurisdictions in North Carolina and across the country ignore the lawful notification and detainer requests made by ICE agents and instead release dangerous criminals back into their communities, putting innocent lives at risk,” Tillis said. “It is time for Congress to step in and hold sanctuary cities accountable.”
California still is home to the largest illegal-alien population in the country, initially with 35 sanctuary cities, morphing into the full state as a sanctuary, courtesy of California’s Democrat lawmakers.
How did California become a sanctuary state?
In 2017, opportunistic California Democrats authored bills to counter the immigration executive orders to protect Americans, of President Donald J. Trump – in violation of Trump’s constitutional authority.
Then-Senate President Pro Tem De León, D-Los Angeles, the author of Senate Bill 54, claimed that “immigrants are valuable and essential members of the California community” and all attempts to enforce immigration laws create fear of the police among “immigrant community members” who fear “approaching police when they are victims of, and witnesses to, crimes.”
SB 54 passed the California Legislature entirely along party lines, Gov. Jerry Brown signed it into law, and turned California into a sanctuary state.
According to De León, the purpose of his bill was “to protect the safety and well-being of all Californians by ensuring that state and local resources are not used to fuel mass deportations, separate families, and ultimately hurt California’s economy.”
SB 54 limits state and local law enforcement agencies involvement in immigration enforcement and ensures that eligible individuals are able to seek services from and engage with state agencies without regard to their immigration status. It also turned California into a sanctuary state.
SB 54 specifically prohibits almost all cooperation and communication with federal immigration authorities.
Sen. Pres. Pro Tem Kevin de León and California Democrats essentially blocked state and local resources from being used for illegal alien/immigration enforcement.
According to Hans von Spakovsky, Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, “While there are many areas over which the states and the federal government share responsibility, immigration is not one of them.”
“Sanctuary cities are trying to prevent federal officials from finding out about criminal alien murderers, rapists, and other violent criminals that these cities would apparently rather release than have picked up and deported so they cannot further victimize Americans.”
But they do it anyway. However, the federal government can withhold federal grants and funds to cities/states that withhold information from ICE. And that is a big portion of Tillis’s bill – withholding federal funding from sanctuary cities: public works and economic development, planning and administrative expenses, training, research, and technical assistance, community development block grant made pursuant to title I of the Housing and Community Development Act.
It’s time to Make California Safe Again.
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Watching animated sign language at the L.A. press conferences reminds me of when Kevin day Leon would station himself at the front corner of Gov. Moobeam’s podium like a cherub at the feet of a saint, in a 13th Century Vatican fresco.
Support 100% this legislation to cut sanctuary cities federal funding.
We’re suffering in these wasteland cities anyway and any federal funding sent to sanctuary cities undoubtedly goes into the corrupt Dem politicians’ (and their friends’) pockets anyway, or might as well, when it inevitably funds more of what benefits only the politicians & their friends and thus more of what is destroying our cities and making them into hell holes that become more toxic by the minute. Which is not helping the people, is it? So what do we have to lose? Maybe NOTHING. Instead we might have a lot to gain.
Just LOOK at how, even with all of their cash, our Dear Leaders’ sanctuary cities such as Karen Bass’ L.A. and the evil twin sanctuary counties L.A. County (with their wrongheaded 4/5 Dem Supes) were wholly unprepared to save precious lives and precious homes from what were, in the end, defensible fires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena/Pasadena that ended up being unnecessarily cataclysmic because of Dem politicians and their greedy idiocy.
Even if our cities do experience some deprivation and residents suffer from funding in ways that weren’t anticipated, we could very well find that it will have been worth it if we can end this absurdity of sanctuary cities —-that no sane person wants anyway —- which doesn’t help the people but only the politicians and their money-grubbing power-mad fantasies. Then we can FINALLY Make California Safe Again.
By the way, the article below will be of interest to anyone who is looking for more ammo against the odious commie L.A. Mayor Karen Bass.
1) Take special note of the tweet titled “CORRUPTION” when reading it.
2) Also please note the Steve Soboroff was behind Playa Vista, and you would be hard-pressed to find a more obnoxious and claustrophobic stack-and-pack rabbit hutch than THAT alienating collection of buildings now found on prime ocean-adjacent real estate.
3) Also worth mentioning is a rumor of a plan I read elsewhere in an article I now cannot find that Pacific Palisades’ future will include “affordable housing.” Anyone familiar with so-called “affordable housing” knows that “Friends of the Mayor” (in this case “Karen”) will undoubtedly be first in line to receive a sweet little slice of heaven domicile on what is arguably one of the most gorgeous and heavenly ocean-side pieces of real estate in the world when the place is rebuilt, whether those “friends” NEED “affordable housing” or not.
Taken all together it may not be a stretch to start thinking that this mayor and her developers and planners let the reservoir fallow and didn’t monitor the fire hydrants so the place would accidentally-on-purpose be left to burn down without intervention. Heads up Pacific Palisades residents! Good thing Breitbart’s Joel Pollack is one of them.
“Bass Has Outside Consultant For Pacific Palisades Rebuild – Be Afraid?”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/01/30/bass-has-outside-consultant-for-pacific-palisades-rebuild-be-afraid-n3799315