Trump Administration: Law Enforcement and Immigration Crackdown

trump administration: The key 93-54 vote advancing the bill came just before 3 a.m. and followed 15-plus hours of heated, sometimes tearful debate, much of it from outnumbered Democrats unable to stop the bill, according to The Chronicle Herald. Final approval that again broke along party lines helped the proposal clear the House in the late afternoon. A late tweak backed by some of the chamber's most conservative voices could ensure that law enforcement across the country's second-largest state can inquire if people are in the country illegally during traffic stops and other fairly common interactions which opponents say will spark the kind of immigration crackdown that the Trump administration has so far been unsuccessful implementing nationally. It would allow Texas to withhold funding from county and local governments for acting as sanctuary cities. An entity failing to follow the law could be subjected to a civil penalty of 1,500 for a first offence and 25,500 for any subsequent violation. Other Republican-led states have pushed for similar policies, but Texas would be the first in which police chiefs and other officials could face a misdemeanour criminal charge of official misconduct and be removed from office for not helping enforce immigration law. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.