‘No enforcement mechanism’: Georgia lawmaker introduces bill to crush sanctuary cities

By Dominick Mastrangelo

Published February 26, 2020 6:18pm ET

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‘No enforcement mechanism’: Georgia lawmaker introduces bill to crush sanctuary cities — Moina Shaiq holds a sign at a rally outside of City Hall in San Francisco, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. President Donald Trump moved aggressively to tighten the nation's immigration controls Wednesday, signing executive actions to jumpstart construction of his promised U.S.-Mexico border wall and cut federal grants for immigrant-protecting "sanctuary cities." (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) | Jeff Chiu

A Republican lawmaker in Georgia introduced a bill that would force local governments to transfer detained illegal immigrants to the custody of federal law enforcement.

House Bill 915, introduced by Rep. Philip Singleton, would require local police to turn undocumented immigrants they arrest over to federal immigration authorities.

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