Republican Representative August Pfluger of Texas is introducing the “No Funding for Sanctuary Cities Act.” Pfluger sits on the House Homeland Security Committee and wants to defund sanctuary cities.
Liberal mayors and governors are hypocritically demanding taxpayer money to help them with the effects of the migrant crisis, he says. The “No Funding for Sanctuary Cities Act” is being introduced by Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, and would amend federal law so that any jurisdiction that blocks federal immigration enforcement would be ineligible for a range of federal law enforcement grants and any other grant administered by the Department of Homeland Security or Department of Justice.
It would also require the DHS secretary to report to Congress how many states and localities are not complying with federal immigration enforcement. It says that any funds that are withdrawn from sanctuary jurisdictions can be diverted to those that are in compliance.
“It is the height of hypocrisy that liberal mayors and governors who intentionally flout federal law by declaring themselves ‘sanctuaries’ from immigration laws are now begging the federal government for money to manage President Biden’s border crisis,” Pfluger said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“This bill is simple: any state or locality that prevents the enforcement of immigration laws will not receive a cent from federal taxpayers,” he said.
Fox News reports there were over 302,000 migrant encounters in December after an FY 23 where there were more than 2.4 million. After declaring they were sanctuary cities, the mayors of those cities have called for more federal assistance, including $5 billion in aid to help them shelter and care for migrants — including a national decompression strategy to move some of them elsewhere.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams has warned that the crisis could “destroy” the city. Schools have shut down in order to house migrants, while both Chicago and Boston have resorted to sheltering migrants at airports.
