The House Just Passed Kate's Law! On To Senate

The House Just Passed Kate’s Law! On To Senate

June 29, 2017

5:29 pm

Noah

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It’s about time!

The House finally got around to doing something it should have done a LONG time ago! Passing Kate’s Law, the complete no-brainer law that helps protect Americans and deport dangerous illegals.

As many of you know, this was a major crusade of Bill O’Reilly. And since he isn’t on the air right now to push this, we will! Will you help us please? SHARE SHARE SHARE! Keep the heat on the Senate to pass it!

Good news, House just passed #KatesLaw. Hopefully Senate will follow.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017

Here is more of the story, from Fox News:

House Republicans took action Thursday to crack down on illegal immigrants and the cities that shelter them.

One bill passed by the House would deny federal grants to sanctuary cities and another, Kate’s Law, would increase the penalties for deported aliens who try to return to the United States.

Kate’s Law, which would increase the penalties for deported aliens who try to return to the United States and caught, passed with a vote of 257 to 157, with one Republican voting no and 24 Democrats voting yes.

Kate’s Law is named for Kate Steinle, a San Francisco woman killed by an illegal immigrant who was in the U.S. despite multiple deportations. The two-year anniversary of her death is on Saturday.

President Trump called the bill’s passage “good news” in a tweet, adding “House just passed #KatesLaw. Hopefully Senate will follow.”

“He should not have been here, and she should not have died,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday, in a final push for Kate’s Law, an earlier version of which was blocked in the Senate last year.

“Our job here is to make sure that those professionals have the tools that they need and the resources that they need to carry out their work and to protect our communities. That is what these measures are all about,” added Ryan.

The other bill, which would deny federal grants to sanctuary cities, passed with a vote of 228-195 with 3 Democrats voting yes and 7 Republicans voting no.

The brutal murder of Steinle catapulted the issue of illegal criminal aliens into the national spotlight. Alleged shooter Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez had been deported five times and had seven felony convictions.