[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 116 (Thursday, July 23, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H5409]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                ENFORCE THE LAW AGAINST SANCTUARY CITIES

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, today I rise in favor of H.R. 3009, Enforce 
the Law Against Sanctuary Cities Act.
  Why does it take tragedy after tragedy before this Congress and 
America gets behind the idea that we don't have to have more tragedies 
like Kate Steinle in San Francisco or one that almost may be forgotten 
about, Jamiel Shaw, Jr., in southern California some years ago, all at 
the hands of illegal immigrants that should not be here, should be 
deported? Why do we keep doing this?
  Indeed, sanctuary cities not only don't enforce the law, they 
intentionally cause people to be in harm's way because they are not 
enforcing the law. Denying funding to them is one strong message to 
sanctuary cities, over 300 of them now in the United States, that they 
are doing the wrong thing and needlessly endangering or losing the 
lives of Kate Steinle to illegal immigrants that are here causing this 
crime.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge passage of H.R. 3009, and for the Senate to 
timely take it up and pass it as well.

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