GOP fights back against ‘Trump-proof’ sanctuary jurisdictions

Republicans are pushing backmost against alleged sanctuary cities and jurisdictions arsenic President Donald Trump ramps up plans for wide deportations.

"All of the mayors present contiguous are actively moving to harm the American radical you represent," Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., told the mayors of 4 sanctuary cities during a House Oversight Committee proceeding connected Wednesday. "You each person humor connected your hands."

The comments, which were addressed to Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and New York City Mayor Eric Adams, travel arsenic the Trump medication continues to propulsion the speedy deportations of amerciable immigrants that the president promised connected the run trail.

But those efforts person been hindered by sanctuary jurisdictions, which person passed rules that bounds their practice with national migration authorities, astir notably by not honoring U.S. Immigration Customs and Customs Enforcement bureau (ICE) detainer requests.

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The 4 mayors who testified astatine Wednesday's proceeding represented immoderate of the largest sanctuary jurisdictions successful the country, a argumentation that has generated contention amid aggregate high-profile crimes that person been committed by illegal immigrants.

"Sanctuary mayors beryllium the American radical an mentation for metropolis policies that jeopardize nationalist information and interruption national migration instrumentality by releasing unsafe transgression amerciable aliens backmost onto the streets," House Committee connected Oversight and Government Reform Chair James Comer, R-Ky., said successful a property merchandise earlier the hearing.

One sanctuary jurisdiction that was not represented astatine the Wednesday proceeding was California, which successful 2018 passed "Trump-proof" authorities aimed astatine protecting the state’s amerciable residents from national migration authorities. 

San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond told Fox News Digital that the law, SB 54, has severely constricted what section California jurisdictions tin bash to combat backmost against amerciable immigration.

"They can’t bash thing astir it," Desmond said of the state’s section instrumentality enforcement agencies nether SB 54, adding that adjacent if officers spot suspected amerciable immigrants coming ashore successful boats, they are forbidden from helping enforce national migration laws.

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"That’s been hindering California arsenic acold arsenic instrumentality enforcement and migration enforcement," Desmond said.

Desmond noted that immoderate California jurisdictions person adjacent gone further than SB 54, putting further barriers successful spot to hinder migration enforcement.

"My colleagues successful December voted to not let our instrumentality enforcement successful our jails to beryllium capable to notify ICE straight that this idiosyncratic who has been convicted and tried and sentenced and present successful our jails is present illegally," Desmond said.

"They present person to get a warrant from a authorities oregon national justice to crook anybody implicit to ICE," helium added, noting that the regularisation is "just different obstacle blocking instrumentality enforcement."

"My Democratic colleagues are trying to enactment much obstacles successful the mode of really reporting criminals to ICE," Desmond said.

Nevertheless, Trump borderline czar Tom Homan has vowed to combat backmost against sanctuary cities, saying past period that national authorities are "going to support coming" nary substance what roadworthy blocks are enactment successful the administration’s way.

"They're not going to halt us," helium said during an quality connected Fox News. "It's little businesslike to apprehension a atrocious feline successful nationalist wherever he's hiding from us, and we're trying to apprehension him connected his turf alternatively than apprehension them successful a region jail, which is wherever we should beryllium arresting them. It takes 1 cause to apprehension the atrocious feline successful the region jail. It takes a full squad to find idiosyncratic that doesn't privation to beryllium recovered successful the neighborhoods, but we're going to support doing this."

That effort is being boosted by Trump’s GOP allies in Congress, who connected Wednesday sought to item the dangers posed by sanctuary policies.

"Every transgression committed by idiosyncratic successful the United States illegally is simply a transgression that would not person been committed. Laken Riley, Ruby Garcia, Rachel Morin, Jocelyn Nungaray, the pistillate acceptable connected occurrence successful the New York subway, these are each assaults, rapes, murders and different crimes that would not person taken the lives of these radical if those radical were not present illegally," Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Ala., told the 4 mayors. "They were fixed harmless harbor."