Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, my amendment eliminates the funding that might be used in contravention of section 642(a) that is designated in the amendment. 642(a) is the section in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, as I know it, that prohibits the political subdivisions in America from establishing sanctuary policies we often refer to as sanctuary cities. These are the political subdivisions that establish a policy that prohibit their law enforcement officers and their other agents from cooperating with Federal immigration officials. It seems illogical to me to think that any local government would want to prohibit their law enforcement officers from assisting in, cooperating with, and transferring information to the Federal law enforcement officers who are enforcing immigration law. That section, it reads, in part, but with the thought being contained here: ``Notwithstanding,'' the language says, ``the political subdivisions may not prohibit, or in any way restrict any government entity or official from sending to or receiving from the INS''--at the time, that is ICE today--``information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.'' Mr. Chairman, I grew up in a law enforcement family. I looked at the men around me as a little boy, and I just thought that all adult men put on a uniform of some kind or another. I was steeped in respect for the supreme law of the land--the Constitution--and the rule of law.…”