GOP Bill Would Imprison Sanctuary City Officials Who Protect Illegals
Posted Thursday, December 21, 2017 | By Cole P. Zail

The Trump administration has already been making a concentrated effort to cut off federal funding from sanctuary cities, but Rep. Todd Rokita’s new bill takes the initiative one step further.

In a bill introduced to the house on December 4, Rokita outlined a proposal to strictly punish sanctuary city officials who deliberately protect illegal immigrants.

Rokita’s proposed bill would apply severe penalties to elected officials in sanctuary cities. Titled the “Stopping Lawless Actions of Politicians Act”, or SLAP, the bill would imprison local and state officials for up to five years, or impose a fine of up to one million dollars for refusal to comply with federal immigration enforcement efforts and deportations.

In a recent appearance on Fox and Friends, Rokita said “These sanctuary cities need to end. They harbor illegal criminals. And if these politicians don’t obey a valid, constitutionally-upheld federal law, if they’re going to act like criminals themselves, then we ought to lock them up”.

“The American people are rightfully infuriated watching politicians put their open-borders ideology before the rule of law, and the safety of the people they represent. Politicians don’t get to pick and choose what laws to comply with”.

Rokita’s bill comes in the wake of the Steinle trial conviction—illegal immigrant Jose Ines Garcia Zarate was acquitted of murder charges in the murder of Kate Steinle in 2015. Zarate had been previously deported back to his home country of Mexico five times and had been released from jail by San Francisco officials, despite federal requests to detain him for deportation. While walking along Pier 14 in San Francisco’s Embarcadero district, Zarate fatally shot Steinle and was subsequently arrested. The court found Zarate not guilty of murdering Steinle—a verdict that angered many Americans who were already frustrated with the lax immigration policies in Democrat-dominated cities like San Francisco.

“Americans are dying because politicians sworn to uphold the law refuse to do so,” Rokita said.

Rokita is running in the Republican primary against five other candidates in an attempt to win a Senate seat currently held by Democrat Joe Donnelly. With the proposed SLAP Act, he hopes to make the streets of America more safe and secure and to put the safety of our nation’s legal citizens first.

https://amac.us/gop-bill-impri...ls-protect-illegals/

Good.

I'll be surprised if it passes, but it's damn sure a step in the right direction.

I love it! I can feel the liberal's heads exploding already.
I also have doubts that it will get very far, though.

Break law ------> Go straight to prison.
What a concept.

It probably won't pass but it's the best thing I have heard a politician say lately and were he in my district I wold vote for him every time he came up for election.

Give the scofflaws the one-two punch. Head fake with legislation (which might pass), while taking away federal funds for real. Deliver the message, Nicky Haley style


Trump DOJ DENIES Los Angeles Federal Law Enforcement Cash


The Los Angeles Police Department has been denied $3 Million in federal aid for “law enforcement”. While there is no official announcement as to why, it quite likely has everything to do with LA’s “sanctuary city” status for harboring illegal aliens. As I’m sure most Gateway Pundit readers know, Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have said they would strip funding from such sanctuary cities.


The L.A. Times reports:

This year, L.A. officials applied for more than $3 million in federal funding to help bring the same program to Harvard Park, a South L.A. neighborhood scarred by violence.

The request was denied.

The U.S. Department of Justice hasn’t offered the LAPD an explanation of why the department didn’t receive any of the $98 million in grants recently awarded to scores of law enforcement agencies across the nation. A spokesman for the federal agency declined to comment when asked by The Times last week.

But after the Trump administration’s repeated threats to withhold federal money from cities that don’t cooperate with its immigration crackdown, some LAPD officials said they believe the move was retaliatory — and a troubling sign of what could come.

Steve Soboroff, president of the civilian Police Commission that oversees the LAPD, said that he believes the Justice Department denied the funding request because of the LAPD’s well-publicized, hands-off approach to immigration enforcement. Soboroff said he worries future funding may also be at risk.

“Community policing is what policing’s all about. Militaristic policing, immigrant harassment is not,” he said. “By ignoring that, or prioritizing it beneath their issue of sanctuary cities and cooperation with ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] — the priorities are wrong.”

“If this is the tip of the iceberg, we’re going to set back law enforcement and policing and public safety by decades,” he added.

The LAPD had planned to use the money to hire 25 officers for the community policing program in Harvard Park, one of the city’s deadliest neighborhoods. The roughly half-mile area saw eight homicides in 2016, nearly triple the number from the year before. So far this year, six people have been killed.

Los Angeles mayor, Eric Garcetti, has openly defied Trump and been a vocal opponent of the #MAGA agenda. A mic.com article on Garcetti features such interludes as:

“We will defend any undocumented worker who’s going to be deported,” he said flatly in a recent interview. The words are backed up in deed: In December, Los Angeles unveiled an ambitious $10-million fund to provide legal counsel to residents facing deportation.

Los Angeles and Orange counties, after all, are home to 1 million undocumented immigrants, or nearly 10% of all undocumented immigrants nationwide. Los Angeles is also one of the major cities that has been targeted by ICE raids in the aftermath of the election.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell has said he’s afraid of losing $132 Million over the next three years because of his county’s harboring of illegal aliens. Citing an August LA Daily News article:

On Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent letters to four cities — including two in California — threatening to deny federal crime-fighting aid if the cities don’t step up efforts to help detain and deport people living in the country illegally.

The targeted cities — which have all struggled with crime — are Stockton, San Bernardino, Baltimore and Albuquerque, New Mexico. All expressed interest in the Justice Department’s new Public Safety Partnership, federal officials said. The program provides assistance from federal agents, analysts and technology to find solutions to crime.

While the Justice Department did not call out any communities in L.A. County in its latest move to punish so-called sanctuary cities, McDonnell has said the county’s limited cooperation with federal immigration officers strikes a necessary balance between public safety and public trust.

The bulk of federal grant funds that McDonnell fears could ultimately be in question — $105 million of the $132 million — would come from DHS for the continued development of a system to enhance radio and broadband communication for police, firefighters, paramedics and other emergency responders in the county.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.co...aw-enforcement-cash/

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“Community policing is what policing’s all about. Militaristic policing, immigrant harassment is not,

You enforce the law as written, THAT is policing.

Good. Deny them every dime they crave. Let the shithole known as LA turn into a battlefield. Maybe then the people will vote for "hope and change".

They should reward the department $1 for every illegal deported.

Rule of Law + Actions have consequences= Make America Great Again.

Let's see, what would happen to me if I knowingly harbored a criminal? So they're griping the standard applied to a 'normal citizen' might actually be applied to the anointed class?

Didn't some Bible thumper clerk of courts in KY get sent to jail for refusing to marry a gay couple?

Is a sanctuary city not essentially the same thing, only their refusal effects hundreds of thousands of people instead of just two?

I hope that they come for New Jersey's new governor first.

quote:

Originally posted by Pizza Bob:
I hope that they come for New Jersey's new governor first.

He's a Pus Pimple on an elephants ass. RAHM EMANUAL should be enemy #1!

it should be 5 years for every illegal

served consecutively, not concurrently

I like it

and as for LA, they can go pound sand

they'd have more money than they would ever know what to do with if they stopped coddling the illegals

so hit them where it hurts

a million here or there, pretty soon it all adds up

Hand on Bible, swearing to uphold the Constitution, enforce the laws - then do the opposite.

Go to jail, no public office eligibility forever thereafter.