12/4/2017 -
Lauretta Brown Townhall.com
Following Thursday’s
not-guilty verdict in the Kate Steinle trial, Rep Todd Rokita (R-IN) introduced
legislation Monday that would punish elected officials who refuse to enforce
immigration laws with large fines and jail time.
Rokita’s “Stopping
Lawless Actions of Politicians (SLAP) Act” targets state and local lawmakers
who refuse to comply with federal immigration law and enforcement efforts with
a $1 million fine and up to five years in prison if they are convicted.
“Politicians don’t get
to pick and choose what laws to comply with,” Rokita told Fox News. “Americans
are dying because politicians sworn to uphold the law refuse to do so.”
“It’s time the federal
government gets serious about enforcing immigration laws and holding
politicians accountable who conspire to break them,” Rokita added.
Illegal immigrant Jose
Ines Garcia Zarate was found not guilty of murder by a San Francisco court
Thursday for the 2015 killing of 32-year-old Kate Steinle. Zarate was found
guilty of a weapons charge and is once again being deported by U.S. immigration
officials.
He had been deported
back to Mexico several times prior to Steinle’s killing and has previous
convictions for re-entry after deportation. Prior to Steinle’s shooting, Zarate
had been released from a San Francisco jail following the dismissal of a minor
drug charge. While U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had issued a
detainer for him, he was released under San Francisco's sanctuary city laws.
Rokita also supports
“Kate’s Law” – a bill, named after Steinle, that would increase penalties for
illegal immigrants who were previously deported.
The mainstream media
has largely
ignored the
shocking verdict which President Trump called “disgraceful.”
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