{"id":2446,"date":"2026-03-14T23:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:59:09","slug":"committee-passes-landmark-immigration-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/committee-passes-landmark-immigration-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee passes landmark immigration legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2446\" class=\"elementor elementor-2446\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5de6db9 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5de6db9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-211798f6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"211798f6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Washington, D.C. \u2013 The House Judiciary Committee passed Congressman Tom McClintock\u2019s H.R. 7640, the Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act<br \/><br \/>The bill asserts federal supremacy over enforcement of immigration law by pre-empting so-called \u201csanctuary\u201d jurisdictions from interfering with local enforcement of immigration law. It allows local jurisdictions in \u201csanctuary\u201d states to work directly with federal law enforcement agencies to uphold immigration laws, protects local law enforcement officers from being sued or harassed by \u201csanctuary\u201d jurisdictions, and re-directs federal law enforcement funds from \u201csanctuary\u201d jurisdictions to those cooperating with federal agencies. It also gives victims of criminals released by \u201csanctuary\u201d jurisdictions the right to sue for damages caused by those releases.<\/p><p>\u201cAll of the local sheriffs in my district want desperately to cooperate with ICE to enforce our immigration laws, but the State of California forbids them from doing so,\u201d said Rep. McClintock. \u201cMy bill will allow them to work directly with the federal government to keep their counties safe and to receive the funds that would otherwise go to \u201csanctuary\u201d jurisdictions.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2013 The House Judiciary Committee passed Congressman Tom McClintock\u2019s H.R. 7640, the Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act The bill asserts federal supremacy over enforcement of immigration law by pre-empting so-called \u201csanctuary\u201d jurisdictions from interfering with local enforcement of immigration law. It allows local jurisdictions in \u201csanctuary\u201d states to work directly with federal law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44064,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions\/44064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}