House Passes “Donald Trump Act” Which Punishes Sanctuary Cities for Not Following the Law

Stumpin for Trump ^ | July 23, 2015 | By Cristina Marcos

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House Republicans passed legislation on Thursday that would deny federal funds to sanctuary cities.

The bill, passed 241-179, would withhold certain federal law enforcement grants to cities that have policies designed to shelter illegal immigrants from deportation.

Sanctuary cities have come under heavy scrutiny in the wake of Kathryn Steinle’s death on July 1 in San Francisco. Authorities charged Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez with her killing. Lopez-Sanchez, who is in the U.S. illegally, has a history of felony convictions and has been deported five times.

Critics of the sanctuary laws say such policies encourage people to immigrate to the U.S. illegally at the expense of citizens.

“A refuge for whom? A sanctuary for whom?” Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said. “A sanctuary for Kate Steinle? Or a refuge for a convicted felon with a 25-year-long criminal history?”

Democrats accused House Republicans of bringing up the bill in part because of real estate mogul and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s focus on illegal immigration and sanctuary cities; they dubbed the bill the “Donald Trump Act.”

“Just a few weeks into his campaign and Donald Trump has a bill on the floor of the House. That is better than some of the senators he’s running against.” Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) said mockingly.

Republicans denied that Trump had any influence on their decision to bring up the legislation.

“This is a valid concern that we’re voting on today,” said Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.), who has often broken with his party on immigration in the past and said he finds Trump’s comments offensive. “I’m not going to let Donald Trump dictate my vote.”

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Now attach that legislation to the recently passed bill Allowing Americans to SUE the SAUDI’S for 911, which passed with a Veto Proof Majority.

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In other words, you have no idea whether Trump’s discussion of defunding sanctuary cities had an effect on this legislation or not. Being that sanctuary cities have been around for years, and there was never the political will in Congress to pass a bill to defund them, until Trump brought the issue to the public’s awareness last year, the likely hood of Trump’s campaign having no effect is low.

Your discussion of who Trump donated to prior to becoming a politician is irrelevant to that discussion. You have shifted the argument. To argue that Congress based their decision to pass this legislation on who Trump donated to 2 years ago makes no sense. If you were to interview Congress and ask them if the facts you cited regarding who Trump donated to in the past effected their decision to pass this legislation, the number who would answer in the affirmative would be approximately 0. I doubt many if any of them are even aware of the facts you cited in your response, let alone, were influenced by them.

Congressmen are political animals. It’s the political climate that effects their decisions on legislation. Whatever contrary positions Trump may have had on this issue in the past, when he made this an issue early in his campaign, it changed the political climate and made it clear to Congress where popular opinion stood on this issue.