[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13292]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               SANCTUARY POLICIES ENDANGER AMERICAN LIVES

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Madam Speaker, the Obama administration is suing 
Arizona for wanting to enforce our Nation's immigration laws, but they 
won't sue cities that violate our immigration laws by enacting 
sanctuary policies.
  So-called ``sanctuary cities'' prohibit their law enforcement 
officers from cooperating with the Department of Homeland Security to 
support illegal immigration. Will the administration also ignore 
individuals who fail to pay their income taxes, for example? Of course 
not.
  The administration's policies endanger American lives.
  In San Francisco, an illegal immigrant with past violent crime 
convictions savagely murdered the Bologna family--a father and two 
sons. In Los Angeles, an illegal immigrant murdered 17-year-old Jamiel 
Shaw, Jr., and an illegal immigrant gang member shot three students in 
Newark, New Jersey, execution style.
  All of these murders took place in sanctuary cities where they might 
have been prevented. The Obama administration needs to enforce 
immigration laws, not ignore them.

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