Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 1 minute to respond to both gentlemen from California. First, with regard to Mr. Becerra, the fact of the matter is that title 8 of the United States Code, section 1373, related to communication between government agencies and Immigration and Naturalization Service, is an important statute, and sanctuary cities violate that statute when they pass ordinances that prohibit-- prohibit--their law enforcement officers from communicating with the Immigration and Naturalization Service. This yields situations like what occurred in San Francisco, because the sheriff there has a policy saying they could not communicate with the INS. Already, one San Francisco supervisor has called upon the city to change the policy so that they will communicate. This bill, which cuts off funds to cities that have provisions that contradict and violate the United States law does the same thing by a different route, and it will save many lives in the future if local law enforcement will communicate with the INS. Now, to the gentleman from California (Mr. Farr), I just want to repeat again what I have said several times here. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.”