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    PA: Senate considers anti-sanctuary bill

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    Senate considers anti-sanctuary bill

    BY ROBERT SWIFT, HARRISBURG BUREAU CHIEF
    Published: November 30, 2015


    HARRISBURG — A bill to take retaliatory action against towns that shelter illegal immigrants is moving through the state Senate.
    This measure is similar to bills in Congress targeting “sanctuary” cities where local officials have taken action to protect illegal immigrants living there.


    The issue has gained momentum since last summer’s killing of a San Francisco woman allegedly by an illegal immigrant from Mexico with a criminal record. He was released from local police custody despite a detention request from federal officials.


    The bill approved recently by the Senate Local Government Committee would apply to towns that don’t honor detention requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement for persons of interest who local authorities arrest.


    Sponsored by Sen. Rich Alloway, R-33, Chambersburg, the bill would prohibit towns from adopting ordinances at odds with federal immigration policy. Towns that don’t enforce federal policies in this area would not be eligible for state law enforcement grants and could be sued for negligence for releasing an individual on detainer who later commits another crime.


    Several municipalities in Pennsylvania have said they won’t honor an immigration detention request, said Mr. Alloway.


    Two senators from Northeast Pennsylvania on the panel voted opposite ways on the bill.


    Sen. John Blake, D-22, Archbald, voted against the bill, citing several problems with it.


    Mr. Blake said he’s concerned that the bill would create new legal liability problems for local municipalities. He said underlying problems exist with law enforcement because of the lack of a cohesive national immigration policy and poor job on the part of federal officials enforcing existing immigration rules.


    Sen. John Yudichak, D-14, Plymouth Twp., voted for the bill, saying strong coordination is needed between federal, state and local law enforcement to fight crime.


    “If a suspect is arrested for a crime, held in custody and a request is made by (ICE) to detain the incarcerated suspect, then local authorities should be encouraged to collaborate with their federal counterparts to ensure a potentially dangerous criminal is not turned back to the streets,” he said.


    Mr. Yudichak said he has concerns about municipal liability issues, too, and hopes they are addressed when the bill moves to the Senate floor.


    In Washington, the U.S. House approved a bill in July to make towns that don’t comply with federal immigration officials ineligible for certain federal law enforcement grants.


    U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, R-11, Hazleton, voted for that bill, saying it’s a good first step to deal with the issue. The congressman said a bill targeting sanctuary cites with sanctions that he introduced in 2011 would take even stronger action.


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    rswift@timesshamrock.com

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    Immigration Reform 2015: Sanctuary Cities In Pennsylvania Could Be Outlawed With New

    Immigration Reform 2015: Sanctuary Cities In Pennsylvania Could Be Outlawed With New Bill

    By Clark Mindock on December 01 2015 12:37 PM EST


    Jim Steinle, father of murder victim Kathryn Steinle, allegedly at the hands of an undocumented immigrant, testifies about his daughter's murder during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on U.S. immigration enforcement policies in Washington, D.C., July 21, 2015. Reuters

    Pennsylvania has become the latest state in the U.S. looking to ban so-called sanctuary cities where local police officials refuse to comply with federal immigration requests to detain and turn over undocumented immigrants or individuals who are suspected of being undocumented immigrants, according to Lancaster Online. The Pennsylvania state Legislature took up the legislation this week, over a month after it was introduced by Republican state Sen. Richard Alloway.

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security regularly issues detainers to let law enforcement agencies know that they would like to take custody of undocumented immigrants, and local law enforcement agencies are asked to comply with those measures. There has been intense political debate surrounding sanctuary cities since the shooting of Kathryn Steinle in SanFrancisco. Steinle was shot as she walked with her father after a dinner in September by undocumented immigrant Juan Francisco, who had been detained by police previously.

    The Pennsylvania bill would not allow municipalities that don’t comply with federal immigration laws to participate in the sale of state surplus property and would block state grants from being awarded.

    Since then, national and state-wide lawmakers have looked to make those cities illegal or to discourage their existence. At the federal level, a bill that would have cut off law enforcement grants for cities that refused to turn over undocumented immigrants in their custody was blocked by Democrats in the Senate.

    Pennsylvania follows the likes of North Carolina, which was the first state to address the issue individually, and Texas, where a heated debate has waged between the governor there and the sheriff of Dallas County. Local law enforcement in sanctuary cities has expressed concern that taking away their ability to ignore customs detainers injures their ability to build trust within their community with individuals who would otherwise run away for fear of being deported.

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