Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) News Release Washington, D.C.–Senator Tom Cotton (R- Arkansas) today issued the following statement after introducing legislation that would make cities that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration policies, also known as sanctuary cities, ineligible for federal immigration and law enforcement grants: “The senseless murder of a young woman in San […]
Cotton Introduces Legislation to Block Sanctuary Cities from Receiving Federal Law Enforcement Grants
Judge orders Homeland Security chief, others to court
By JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Texas has threatened to hold Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and other top immigration enforcement officials in contempt of court for not fixing problems that led to work permits being mistakenly awarded under President Barack Obama’s executive immigration action after the judge […]
Immigration noncompliance policies far from exclusive to San Francisco
By Eric Kurhi, San Jose Mercury News July 08–While San Francisco is taking heat because of its status as a “sanctuary city” that allowed the release of a serial deportee who has been charged with homicide, such noncompliance policies abound in the Bay Area and throughout the state. The overarching law of the land is […]
A look at release of immigrant charged in US pier killing
By AMY TAXIN and JANIE HAR, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The city of San Francisco has come under fire after it released Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez, a Mexican immigrant in the country illegally, despite a request by federal immigration authorities to keep him in custody so they could deport him for a sixth […]
As S.F. shooting suspect apologizes, factions square off over noncompliance policy
By Eric Kurhi and Matthew Artz, San Jose Mercury News July 07–As Mexican national and five-time deportee Francisco Sanchez somberly stammered an apology to the family of the woman he admitted shooting to death as she walked along a scenic San Francisco pier, factions on Monday squared off on the city’s policy of noncooperation with […]