Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions and several other Republican senators unveiled legislation Thursday to force “sanctuary cities” to cooperate more closely with federal officials on immigration.

Sessions, chairman of a Senate subcommittee on Immigration and National Interest, was joined by co-sponsors Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in introducing the bill, dubbed the Protecting American lives Act.

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