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Republican Senator Rick Scott is set to introduce legislation that would spell major financial losses for sanctuary cities and states, The Daily Wire has learned.<\/p>\n
The Florida senator introduced the bill \u2014 dubbed the Unifying American Security Interests Act \u2014 to explicitly tie eligibility for federal grants to cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In order to secure the federal funds, cities would need to honor ICE detainers, conduct joint training with immigration officers, and commit to openly sharing information with federal authorities.<\/p>\n
Along with the aforementioned bill, Scott introduced the Sanctuary Jurisdiction Event Security Enhancement Act, which bars sanctuary cities and states from receiving federal funding for event security through the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Special Event Assessment Rating.<\/p>\n
\u201cDemocrat politicians are putting illegal aliens first and the American people last, harboring criminals in sanctuary cities where they refuse to enforce our laws,\u201d Scott said in a statement shared with The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n
\u201cPresident Trump is doing his part by securing the border, now Congress must pass my bills to hold sanctuary cities and states accountable by withholding federal tax dollars until they cooperate with federal law enforcement,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump has previously threatened to cut federal funding to sanctuary jurisdictions amid his mass deportation crackdown.<\/p>\n
Trump accused sanctuary cities and states of doing \u201ceverything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American citizens,\u201d adding that \u201cit breeds fraud and crime and all of the other problems that come,\u201d according<\/a> to NBC News.<\/p>\n The state of Virginia and its new Democratic Governor Abigail Spanberger have drawn the ire of the Trump administration over recent crimes carried out by illegal immigrant offenders.<\/p>\n In the latest example, the Department of Homeland Security is begging local authorities in Fairfax County not to release an illegal immigrant accused of groping at least a dozen female students while he attended a local high school with them as an adult.<\/p>\n \u201cThis 19-year-old criminal illegal alien should NOT have been attending a Virginia high school and allowed to prey on innocent teenage girls. He now faces nine counts of assault and battery. This is yet another example of the Biden Administration\u2019s failed open border policies,\u201d Homeland Security Deputy Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement Monday regarding the case.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are calling on Fairfax County sanctuary politicians to NOT release this predator from jail back into our communities to assault more teenage women. Unfortunately, Governor Abigail Spanberger ended cooperation with ICE and is siding with criminal illegal aliens over American citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n The Fairfax County Sheriff\u2019s Office told The Daily Wire that they don\u2019t \u201cobstruct or prevent ICE from acting on their civil detainers,\u201d but didn\u2019t say whether they\u2019d notify federal immigration officers ahead of the suspect\u2019s eventual release.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile it is still too early in the process to know the outcome of his case, ICE has been notified of Ortiz\u2019s location at the ADC [Adult Detention Center], and they are able to execute their detainer by responding to the ADC and taking Ortiz into custody if and when he is ordered released,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n