Senate Democrats Block ‘Kate’s Law’ and Bill Cracking Down On Sanctuary Cities

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The bill, “Establishing Mandatory Minimums for Illegal Reentry Act of 2015”, is also known as “Kate’s Law.”

The legislation was named after Kate Steinle, a thirty-two-year-old woman who was killed by an illegal Mexican, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, on a San Francisco pier in July of 2015.

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Democrats put the welfare of illegal’s over the law and safety of Americans saying that the bill is anti-immigrant, and civil rights groups have lobbied Democrats to oppose the bills, arguing they would damage the ability of police to build trust with immigrant communities.

Breitbart reported that Senate Democrats successfully blocked legislation to crack down on sanctuary cities and illegal immigrants who re-enter the United States.

Wednesday, the Senate voted 53-44 on Sen. Pat Toomey’s (R-PA) “Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act” and 55-42 on Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) “Kate’s Law.” Each bill needed 60 votes to advance.

Both bills were inspired by the murder of Kathryn Steinle, who was killed a year ago by a five-time deported illegal immigrant a long felony rap sheet. Steinle’s killer had been in police custody but was released months before her death due San Francisco’s sanctuary policy of ignoring immigration detainers. The murder sparked a national outcry over sanctuary cities and criminal aliens in the U.S.

Toomey’s legislation would have withheld certain federal funds from jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration officials, also known as sanctuary cities.

“Despite the support of a bipartisan majority, the Senate has once again failed to act on a critical public safety issue,” Toomey said, following the vote. “Sanctuary cities are Orwellian in their logic — they give extra protection to dangerous criminals, just because they happen to be in the country illegally. This is a dangerous injustice that must be stopped, and I will continue to fight it.”

Cruz’s bill would have increased the maximum penalty on illegal immigrants who re-enter the U.S. illegally and it would have imposed a mandatory minimum sentence of five years on criminal aliens who reenter following a deportation.

“All Americans, regardless of Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, all Americans deserve to be protected, and we need a government that stops allowing violent illegal aliens to prey on the innocents,” Cruz said on the Senate floor in advance of the vote.

He continued, “If our Democratic colleagues make the choice to put politics over protecting innocent Americans, by refusing to enforce our immigration laws, the consequences of that are immense. Doing so is quite literally playing with people’s lives.”

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  1. The beginning of the end when hillary gains the oval office. After a mass influx of more illegals once the ones here are amnestied, the only answer will be to do away with the 2nd amendment, then roll out the military to govern the streets. Of course, once citizens are disarmed, the streets will still be run amock with illegals commiting heinous crimes, legal citizens will be the ones with laws governing curfues, travel permissions. What a wonderful country they have planned for us all. Then of course, the last item, one both republicans and democrats having been working on for 50 years will be the NEW WORLD ORDER! A United Nations military, because of course our own military can not be trusted to be so cruel to their own families! Go on, I was vague, to just get this in type, regardless of how I described the future there will be TROLLS and idiots en masse’ ridiculing this comment. Let the brawl begin!

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