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    Cruz's 'Kate's Law,' named for S.F. woman killed by illegal alien, stalls in senate

    Cruz's 'Kate's Law,' named for San Francisco woman killed by illegal immigrant, stalls in Senate

    By Katie Leslie
    Washington correspondent
    Published: 06 July 2016 12:47 PM
    Updated: 06 July 2016 03:35 PM
    Updated at 3:30 p.m. with Senate vote.

    WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz's legislation to impose mandatory minimum prison sentences on people who re-enter the U.S. illegally stalled in the Senate on Wednesday, the latest blow to the measure that he says would help deter illegal immigration but others warn would lead to overstuffed federal prisons.


    By a 55-42 vote, the Senate failed to advance Cruz's "Kate's Law," legislation Cruz introduced a year ago following the death of Kate Steinle. The 32-year-old woman was shot in San Francisco last July by a convicted felon who, despite being the subject of a pending deportation order, had been released by local officials.


    The bill needed 60 votes to advance. But it's not dead —Cruz can seek another vote if he can rally more support.


    Steinle’s death set off a fresh wave of debate over immigration policies and the merits of so-called sanctuary cities — local governments that don’t require law enforcement to work with immigration authorities.


    Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, the man charged in the shooting, had already been deported from the U.S. five times when he was released by the San Francisco sheriff’s department after a drug charge was dismissed. Lopez-Sanchez has acknowledged firing the gun but contends that he did not intend to shoot Steinle.

    Cruz's measure, the Establishing Mandatory Minimums for Illegal Reentry Act of 2015, has foundered in the Senate. Democrats, who along with some Republicans have voiced concern over mandatory minimums, blocked an effort to advance the bill last fall. Each Republican and three Democrats, however, supported moving the bill forward during a procedural vote on Wednesday.


    "The time for politics is over ... It is time to confront the sobering issue of illegal aliens, many of whom have serious criminal backgrounds, but are allowed to re-enter this country with impunity," Cruz said prior to the vote on Wednesday.

    Cruz's bill would raise the maximum criminal penalty for re-entering the country illegally from two years to five; create a new penalty of up to a decade for someone who returns illegally after three or more deportations; and create a five year mandatory minimum for someone who has an aggravated felony prior to deportation or who has been convicted twice of illegal re-entry.


    The former Republican presidential candidate believes his measure could have helped prevent Steinle's death and laid blame on President Barack Obama's immigration policies, though federal authorities had issued a sixth deportation order for Lopez-Sanchez.

    "Clearly we are failing to adequately deter deported illegal aliens...especially those with violent criminal records," Cruz said. "We must increase the risks the penalties for those who would contemplate illegally returning to the U.S. to commit acts of murder."

    Families Against Mandatory Minimums, a nonprofit group sentencing reform advocacy group, has come out against Kate's Law because of concerns it's too broad.

    "Like all mandatory minimum sentences, passing Kate's Law might feel good, but it won't make us safer," said Molly Gill, FAMM's director of federal legislative affairs, in a statement this week. "Requiring courts to send all immigration violators to federal prison for at least five years might lock up some violent people longer, but it will definitely lock up many, many nonviolent ones longer. This mandate will cost billions of dollars, dollars better spent on fighting terrorism or supporting law enforcement and victims."


    But Jon Feere, a legal policy analyst for the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates more restrictive immigration policies, sees value in the proposal.


    "If we’re serious about our sovereignty and the rule of law, there needs to be some form of punishment," he said. "If the goal is to discourage people from risking their lives, crossing the border or paying smugglers to bring them across, then this is the direction we should be moving in."


    According to an analysis by the Center for American Progress, the measure would cost $3.1 billion over the next decade just to house the people with prior aggravated felony convictions, said Tom Jawetz, the center's vice president of immigration policy. That figure doesn't include people in the other categories of illegal re-entry convictions, nor the cost to build the nine additional federal prisons his center estimates will be needed.


    Jawetz questioned the efficacy of Cruz's measure, noting that the man charged with Steinle's murder had spent nearly two decades in federal prison.


    "It's an extremely expensive" law, he said. "The other question is: What do you get for that cost? The truth is, there's no evidence it would deter future unauthorized migration."


    Cruz dismissed the financial concerns on Wednesday, noting: "The cost of violent crime at the hands of recidivist, criminal illegal aliens is far greater than the commonsense investment to prevent crimes of violence like the horrific murder of Kate Steinle."


    Cruz's bill is unlikely to soon return to the Senate for consideration. It was one of two related to Steinle's death that stalled Wednesday. Legislation that would have withheld federal funding from sanctuary cities, sponsored by Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa. and cosponsored by Cruz, also failed to advance.

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    Don't give up Cruz! Stop this insanity and the invasion of our Country.

    Cut off ALL freebies to non-citizens. No non-citizen can collect taxpayer benefits on behalf of a legal citizen...minor or not.

    All you people to rent and hire illegals...shame on you! Fire them and evict them.

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    I know some folks on here don't like Cruz, but I think his head is in the right place on illegal immigration and border security. For that, he has my respect.

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    U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 114th Congress - 2nd Sessionas compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate
    Vote Summary
    Question: On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed (Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to S. 2193 )
    Vote Number: 120 Vote Date: July 6, 2016, 03:36 PM
    Required For Majority: 3/5 Vote Result: Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected
    Measure Number: S. 2193 (Kate's Law )
    Measure Title: A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase penalties for individuals who illegally reenter the United States after being removed and for other purposes.
    Vote Counts: YEAs 55
    NAYs 42
    Not Voting 3
    Grouped By Vote Position
    YEAs ---55
    Alexander (R-TN)
    Ayotte (R-NH)
    Barrasso (R-WY)
    Blunt (R-MO)
    Boozman (R-AR)
    Burr (R-NC)
    Capito (R-WV)
    Cassidy (R-LA)
    Coats (R-IN)
    Cochran (R-MS)
    Collins (R-ME)
    Corker (R-TN)
    Cornyn (R-TX)
    Cotton (R-AR)
    Crapo (R-ID)
    Cruz (R-TX)
    Daines (R-MT)
    Donnelly (D-IN)
    Enzi (R-WY)
    Ernst (R-IA)
    Fischer (R-NE)
    Flake (R-AZ)
    Gardner (R-CO)
    Grassley (R-IA)
    Hatch (R-UT)
    Heitkamp (D-ND)
    Heller (R-NV)
    Hoeven (R-ND)
    Inhofe (R-OK)
    Isakson (R-GA)
    Johnson (R-WI)
    Kirk (R-IL)
    Lankford (R-OK)
    Manchin (D-WV)
    McCain (R-AZ)
    McConnell (R-KY)
    Moran (R-KS)
    Murkowski (R-AK)
    Paul (R-KY)
    Perdue (R-GA)
    Portman (R-OH)
    Risch (R-ID)
    Roberts (R-KS)
    Rounds (R-SD)
    Rubio (R-FL)
    Sasse (R-NE)
    Scott (R-SC)
    Sessions (R-AL)
    Shelby (R-AL)
    Sullivan (R-AK)
    Thune (R-SD)
    Tillis (R-NC)
    Toomey (R-PA)
    Vitter (R-LA)
    Wicker (R-MS)
    NAYs ---42
    Baldwin (D-WI)
    Bennet (D-CO)
    Blumenthal (D-CT)
    Booker (D-NJ)
    Boxer (D-CA)
    Cantwell (D-WA)
    Cardin (D-MD)
    Carper (D-DE)
    Casey (D-PA)
    Coons (D-DE)
    Durbin (D-IL)
    Feinstein (D-CA)
    Franken (D-MN)
    Gillibrand (D-NY)
    Heinrich (D-NM)
    Hirono (D-HI)
    Kaine (D-VA)
    King (I-ME)
    Klobuchar (D-MN)
    Leahy (D-VT)
    Markey (D-MA)
    McCaskill (D-MO)
    Menendez (D-NJ)
    Merkley (D-OR)
    Mikulski (D-MD)
    Murphy (D-CT)
    Murray (D-WA)
    Nelson (D-FL)
    Peters (D-MI)
    Reed (D-RI)
    Reid (D-NV)
    Sanders (I-VT)
    Schatz (D-HI)
    Schumer (D-NY)
    Shaheen (D-NH)
    Stabenow (D-MI)
    Tester (D-MT)
    Udall (D-NM)
    Warner (D-VA)
    Warren (D-MA)
    Whitehouse (D-RI)
    Wyden (D-OR)
    Not Voting - 3
    Brown (D-OH) Graham (R-SC) Lee (R-UT)
    http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LI...n=2&vote=00119

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