[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 144 (Tuesday, September 10, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H7565-H7566]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS OF SANCTUARY CITIES ACT

  (Mr. BUDD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BUDD. Mr. Speaker, in June, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 
or ICE, released a list of criminal illegal aliens who were allowed 
back into their sanctuary communities by local officials. One such 
criminal is Rosalio Ramos-Romas, a Honduran citizen who was deported 
four times before authorities arrested him in Washington State in 
October of 2017.
  Once notified of his arrest, ICE issued a written detainer request 
asking local authorities to imprison him for an additional 48 hours. 
Instead, local authorities ignored the detainer request and allowed 
Rosalio back into the community, where he eventually murdered his 
cousin and hid the body in a dumpster.
  These are not isolated incidents of violence, but they occur all too 
frequently in sanctuary cities across America. The truth is that 
sanctuary city policies threaten the safety of our neighbors.
  I am fed up that these tragedies have gone unchecked for far too long 
in our country. That is why I introduced H.R. 3964, the Justice for 
Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act, with Congressman Bradley Byrne, which 
would allow anyone harmed by an illegal immigrant in a sanctuary city 
to sue the sanctuary city or State.

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  Mr. Speaker, it is time for the House to give victims of sanctuary 
city policies a legal pathway to justice. This cannot happen again.

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