Cotton Introduces Bill Cracking Down on ‘Sanctuary Cities’ for Illegal Immigrants

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Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas introduced a bill on Wednesday that would deny federal law enforcement aid to cities that don’t comply with federal immigration laws. The problem of so-called “sanctuary cities” has been in the news following the murder of Kathryn Steinle, a young woman who was killed in the sanctuary city of San Francisco by an illegal immigrant who had seven felony convictions and had been deported five times. 

 

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