GOP Speaker Mike Johnson: Democrats Should End ‘Sanctuary City’ Secession Policies
House GOP legislators will use their clout in the year-end funding fights to push to end Democrat cities’ secession from the nation’s immigration laws, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told the New York Post.
“I’m certain that will be one of our proposals, and it should,” the GOP’s new House leader told the newspaper.
The Democrats’ so-called “Sanctuary Cities” create no-go zones for federal immigration laws, including the laws requiring the deportation of illegals. The cities’ secession from federal law also creates havens for illegal migrants, spikes crime against Americans, and also allows employers to cut wages, spike rents, and sideline millions of working Americans.
The GOP demand for ending “sanctuary city” policies is underlined by the Democrats’ demands that taxpayers pay $5 billion to the cities for their self-inflicted costs of housing illegal migrants, Johnson said.
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“The idea that you would maintain a sanctuary city status and then cry out to the federal government for assistance in what you’ve done is, to me, unconscionable,” he said.
Johnson also made sure to blame President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief — Alejandro Mayorkas — for the vast damage done to ordinary Americans by inviting a flood of illegal migrants:
“What he has done is just inexcusable, because these are policy decisions … [His flood] is terribly destructive to our country in so many ways — six million people-plus have been apprehended at the border, 1.7 million getaways. Fentanyl has just led to an absolute catastrophe; the leading cause of death is overdoses for Americans aged 18-49, human trafficking, enriching the cartels, it goes on and on and on. And all of that traces back to their policy decisions.
So far, Johnson’s caucus of House Republicans is making progress as the legislators push for passage of the GOP’s H.R. 2 immigraiton stabilization bill.
For example, the Senate’s establishment GOP leadership has endorsed valuable but limited reforms to immigration policy because of populist pressure from the House GOP amid the end-of-year budget negotiations.
Democrats oppose significant changes, but they know their Mayorkas’ migration is threatening the electability of the many Democrats, even in deep blue states.
Johnsoon’s clout is boosted by recent polls which show that immigration is now the top issue for Republican voters and that a clear majority of swing state voters support a border wall.
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But GOP donors and their pollsters want more migrant workers, consumers, and customers, and even as nearly all GOP voters want a sharp reduction in migration.
This deep divide ensures that business-backed establishment Republican politicians prefer to talk loudly about the border chaos so they can quietly ignore the vast pocketbook and economic damage caused by migration throughout the United States.
Since 2021, Mayorkas has used his various catch-and-release loopholes to invite roughly six million southern illegals into the United States, alongside at least four million legal immigrants and legal visa workers.
Josh Hawley Demands Probe into Biden’s DHS Allegedly Feeding Illegal Aliens Over Investigating Child Exploitation
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is demanding a federal probe into whistleblower allegations that President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is providing sandwiches to illegal aliens instead of investigating child exploitation at the United States-Mexico border.
In a letter to DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari, Hawley writes that he wants “an immediate investigation into whistleblower allegations that the DHS has shut down or delayed investigations into child exploitation and other crimes in order to transfer hundreds of special agents to process illegal immigrants at the southern border.”
Specifically, the whistleblowers claim that Biden’s DHS is pulling agents off criminal investigations and having them make sandwiches for illegal aliens.
Hawley detailed the whistleblower allegations:
On October 31, 2023, I questioned Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas before the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) regarding whistleblower allegations that he removed 600 Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents from felony investigations to facilitate immigration processing functions at the southern border. According to the whistleblower, agents “are being told to shut down investigations to hand out sandwiches and escort migrants to the shower.” This led to child exploitation suspects and fentanyl dealers evading indictment, including child molesters. When asked whether special agents had been pulled away from cases and reassigned to the border, Secretary Mayorkas testified, “Combatting the fight against fentanyl, yes.” [Emphasis added]
Following the hearing, three more whistleblowers from across the country contacted my office, corroborating these claims. One alleged that Secretary Mayorkas was “absolutely lying” and that agents were not, in fact, being reassigned to investigate fentanyl cases. The whistleblower corroborated the claim that there have been at least 600 agents at a given time reassigned to the border. A third whistleblower claims that he was also reassigned to the border to “babysit” illegal immigrants; his duties included holding doors for private contractors who prepared the sandwiches for illegal immigrants, who were “fed better than my kids.” A fourth whistleblower confirmed that special agents had been pulled off child exploitation investigations. According to some of the whistleblowers, much of their time was spent on “stand-by,” as offices at the border were not expecting their arrival. [Emphasis added]
Most concerningly, all the whistleblowers allege that important criminal investigations stalled and suspects were not arrested or indicted as a result of these reassignments. Agents were pulled from investigations ranging from child exploitation to drug trafficking to counterterrorism. One whistleblower was pulled from child exploitation cases “that haunt your soul when you aren’t available and able to ensure the children involved aren’t being abused.” Another whistleblower alleges that hands-on child molesters were not arrested and further provides specific examples of child exploitation indictments that were delayed or adversely affected due to these reassignments. [Emphasis added]
Specifically, Hawley is asking Cuffari how many DHS agents have been reassigned to help bring illegal aliens into the U.S. interior and how many of those agents were subsequently required to hold off on investigations into criminal activity and child exploitation.
An estimated six million border crossers and illegal aliens have been welcomed into American communities since Biden took office in late January 2021 — including nearly two million known so-called “got-aways,” those illegal aliens who successfully crossed the border.
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Randy Clark/Breitbart TexasJohn Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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