Tuesday, July 21, 2015

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Legislative Activity (click here)

House Appropriations Panel Approves Homeland Security Spending Bill, Scrutinizes “Sanctuary City” Policies


This week, the House Appropriations Committee approved its FY 2016 spending bill funding homeland security programs. The measure provides $39.3 billion in discretionary funding for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), $337 million below the amount enacted for FY 2015 and $2 billion less than the President’s request.

Debate over sanctuary cities dominated the Committee’s debate of the DHS measure. House appropriators adopted three Republican-led amendments responding to the death of a San Francisco woman shot by an immigrant in the US illegally. One measure adopted along party lines would block sanctuary cities from receiving certain homeland security funding grants, including those related to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Democrats criticized the amendment as limiting the ability of these cities to receive funding to fight natural disasters or to prevent terrorist attacks. Members of both parties supported a manager’s amendment containing provisions that would increase funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Criminal Alien and Fugitive Operations programs, to boost support for enforcement....

The problem is larger than the occasional immigrant, it is about gangs. The House Committee needs to get the mayors and their law enforcement leadership on record.