Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I represent many small communities in California that have a lot of gang violence. It is mostly Hispanic young men against Hispanic young men. They are not undocumented. They are actually second-generation gangs, a lot of killings. In fact, it is labeled the murder capital of the world, or in the United States. What the community has been trying to do is work out what we call community policing, where you really trust the cops. What happens is they asked them to be a sanctuary city, because what the local cops didn't like about the INS and la migra coming in is that they would just come in and do raids and they would round up innocent people, and there was just lots of confusion. Our office would get involved trying to trace people down, where are they, and all these things. What the sanctuary city says is, look, let's not just turn over the name to everybody we stop on an infraction to the Federal cop. Let them come down and do what they call jail checks. Well, they don't want to do jail checks. That is not fun and fancy. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.”