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Republican senators informed Fox Information Digital that they’re fed up with liberal sanctuary cities like Los Angeles making an attempt to impede federal immigration authorities from implementing the regulation, some suggesting that it’s time the legislative department intervened to tug their funding.
“We have to say, ‘Enough is enough,’” mentioned Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala. “I don’t understand why we would continue to give federal dollars to someone who doesn’t abide by federal law. I mean, think about that. That is very simple.”
Talking with Fox Information Digital within the Senate workplace constructing halls, Britt mentioned, “There’s been no more-litigated issue over the last four years than the millions and millions of illegal migrants coming across our border.”
“What a sanctuary city says is, ‘You can commit a crime, we will allow for lawlessness, and we will not turn you over to the federal authorities.’ I mean, think about that. That is absolute insanity, and we’re not going to stand for it anymore,” she mentioned.
Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla. and Katie Britt, R-Ala., spoke to Fox Information Digital about chopping off sanctuary cities’ federal funding. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Pictures and Getty and Anna Moneymaker/Getty Pictures)
“We have enabled that kind of bad behavior for too long,” mentioned Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio. “Look, the reality is, to use the term for my colleagues, ‘Nobody is above the law.’ So, if you have a mayor or county executive or a governor, whoever you want to say, that’s not following federal law, that’s completely unacceptable. And the tool that we have here is federal funding.”
“I’ve called for that in my campaign, and I think all Republicans, we should stick firm on that,” he added.
In the meantime, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., merely informed Fox Information Digital that sanctuary cities blocking immigration “shouldn’t” obtain federal funding.
“I mean, first off, if you’re a sanctuary city, you’re not doing the right thing for your citizens. You’re not keeping them safe,” mentioned Scott. “I think all of us are really frustrated because we don’t have an immigration system that works. There’s people who want to come to our country legally and work in our country and go home. That’s what we ought to be focused on, how do we improve that, but make sure that if you’re not vetted, you shouldn’t be able to come into this country.”
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A protester locations particles in a fireplace as Border Patrol personnel in riot gear and gasoline masks stand guard outdoors an industrial park in Paramount, Calif., on Saturday, June 7, 2025. (AP Picture/Eric Thayer)
On the opposite facet of the aisle, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., informed Fox Information Digital that sanctuary metropolis officers not cooperating with ICE and federal authorities “is not an issue in Virginia, because . . . I’m not aware of a sanctuary city in Virginia.”
Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, responded to Fox Information Digital by saying, “I don’t have any comment on that, I’m focused right now on what’s going on in the Middle East.”
Sen. Invoice Cassidy, R-La., mentioned, “I think that everybody should follow the law” or “accept the consequences.”
“I can’t tell you that I know legally what are the consequences that a community deliberately disobeying something from the federal government. But whatever those consequences are, if a community makes that decision, then it has to bear the consequences,” Cassidy added.
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Protesters face off with police outdoors a federal constructing in downtown Los Angeles for an anti-Trump “No Kings Day” demonstration in a metropolis that has been the main focus of protests in opposition to Trump’s immigration raids on June 14, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. (Spencer Platt/Getty Pictures)
Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Tenn., mentioned that sanctuary insurance policies “led in many ways to these LA riots, that the L.A. police weren’t willing to help when our ICE agents were in trouble.”
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“What we cannot tolerate is local officials impeding ICE officers from doing their job, and that’s exactly what’s happening in some of these sanctuary cities,” mentioned Marshall. “So, if that means the power of the purse, then so be it. But whatever we do, President Trump took an oath, I took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution to make all of us safe.”
