Washington (AP) – as President Donald Trump with the California governor about enforcing immigration, the Republicans asked for other democratic governors to be capitol at the congress on Thursday to ask them about politics that restricted the cooperation with the federal immigration authorities.
Members of the House Committee on Oversight and the government reform faced vast, colorful posters, of which they said without legal permission in the country when they were arrested for crimes in Illinois, Minnesota and New York-home councilors who testified in front of the committee.
The chairman of the committee, the chairman of the committee, James Comer, began the hearing with the introduction of the family of a youthful woman who was killed in a hit-and-run traffic accident in Illinois, which indicates that the guidelines for the sanctuary had made it easier to illegally the driver of the other vehicle.
“Sanctuary policy does not protect the Americans, they protect criminal illegal foreigners,” said Comer.
The members of the Republican Congress repeatedly joined the democratic governors and often told descriptions of violent crimes that were allegedly illegally committed by immigrants in the United States and were previously not arrested by the local police.
Once the democratic MP Melanie Stansbury from New Mexico threw in to denounce the “theaters”.
“They all greet the Superality Reality TV show,” said Stansbury. “I know Mr. Trump loves a good television and today is not disappointing.”
There is no legal definition of a sanctuary on jurisdiction, but the term generally refers to governments with guidelines that restrict cooperation with the federal immigration authorities. The courts have previously confirmed the legality of such laws.
But Trump’s administration has sued Colorado, Illinois, New York and several cities – including Chicago and Rochester, New York – to violate their guidelines against the US constitution or the US Federal Act.
Illinois, Minnesota and New York also belonged among 14 countries and hundreds of cities and counties, which recently listed by the Ministry of Homeland Protection as “jurisdiction that opposed the Federal Immigration Act”. The list was later removed by the department’s website after it has been criticized that they contained some local governments that support Trump’s immigration policy incorrectly.
When Trump increases the enforcement of immigration, some democratically guided states have reinforced their resistance by strengthening state laws that restrict cooperation with immigration control. After clashes between demonstrators and immigration agents in Los Angeles, Trump used the national guard to protect buildings and agents of California, and California governor Gavin Newsom accused Trump to explain the underpins of American democracy.
“As we are talking, an American city was militarized at the objections of their governor,” said New York governor Kathy Hochul. “At the beginning I just want to say that this is an open abuse of power.”
Some of the most fiery stock exchanges concerned Hochul and Republicans from their home state. The Republican MP Elise Stefanik, who was described in New York as a potential candidate for governor of 2026, described cases in which she said that people were raped, harassed and burned in the United States or remained illegally in the United States.
“They are not committed to the name of these victims, they protect illegals,” said Stefanik to Hochul, while they interrupted the governor’s attempted answers.
Hochul said that the crimes were “terrible” and “heartbreaking” and insisted that “we work with ice; we cooperate with law enforcement authorities in criminal matters”.
Republican MP Nick Langworthy from New York later implied that Hochul’s policy was partly responsible for the death of the University of Georgia, Riley’s University, who was killed last year by a Venezuelan man who had illegally joined the USA. According to the US immigration and customs authority, the man was arrested by the New York police in 2023, but was released before Ice New York civil servants could ask him.
Ablede from other Republican questioners expressed Supreme Sympathy for Riley’s family, but said: “This has nothing to do with our civil enforcement of the laws.”
Governor Order prohibits the New York officials to inquire or open to the federal authorities’ immigration status, unless this is required by law.
Hochul said that law enforcement officers can still work with the federal immigration authorities if people are convicted or examined for crimes. Since taking office in 2021, Hochul said that the state had initiated the transfer of more than 1,300 imprisoned non -state members to the ice after completing their state sentences.
“What we do not do is enforce civil immigration – that is the task of the federal government,” said Hochul.
The house supervisory committee has long been a partisan battlefield and has focused on immigration policy in the past few months. On Thursday there will be a similar hearing in March, in which the committee conducted by Republicans questioned the Democratic Mayor of Chicago, Boston, Denver and New York about Sanctuary policy.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the first to say, rejected the claim that Minnesota is a refuge. There is no nationwide law that illegally protects immigrants in the United States, although Minneapolis and St. Paul both restrict both to what extent the police and city affiliates can work together with the enforcement of immigration.
“The enforcement of the Immigration Act is not the role of local and state governments,” said Walz, who sent out a political donation, in which he commissioned his congress statement.
Some laws signed by Walz have secured people’s advantages regardless of immigration status. But at least one of them is rolled back. The legislator in Minnesota, which was hit in a special meeting, passed the legislation on Monday to abolish a law of 2023, illegally covered the adult in the USA under a state health program for the working arms. Walz insisted on maintaining the authorization for children who are not legally in the country.
Strongly democratic chicago has been a city for sanctuary for decades. In 2017, the then governor Bruce Rauner, a Republican, signed laws that created nationwide protective measures for immigrants. The Illinois Trust Act prohibits the police to search for, arrest or hold on to people only because of their immigration status. However, it enables local authorities to keep people to the federal immigration authorities if there is a valid criminal arrest warrant.
Governor JB Pritzker, who follows Rauner in 2019, said that violent criminals “have no place on our streets, and when they are undocumented, I want them to be brought out by Illinois and from our country”.
“Illinois follows the law. But let me be clear, we expect the federal government to follow the law,” added Pritzker, who belonged to Trump’s most pronounced opponents and is considered a potential presidential candidate of 2028. “We will not participate in violations of power. We will not violate court orders.”
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Lieb reported by Jefferson City, Mo. also contributed Associated Press Writers Anthony Izaguirre in Albany, ny; Steve Karnowski in Minneapolis; And Sophia Tireen in Chicago.
