WASHINGTON: One of the Senate’s leading advocates of immigration law reform chastised large cities across the nation that refuse to help the Immigration and Naturalization Service find and prosecute illegal immigrants.
Calling them “hypocritical,” Senator William Roth, R Del., pointed out that some of the cities are among the harshest critics of the INS” inability to stem the tide of illegal immigration. He singled out San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. Roth’s remarks came a day after the Senate approved his amendment to its fast-growing crime bill that would prohibit cities with policies of noncooperation from partaking in $22.68 billion in federal crime fighting funds.
The amendment, passed 93 to 6, would require state and local governments to provide information to federal immigration authorities that will help them enforce immigration laws, it directs Atlomey General Janet Reno to report to President Clinton and Congress within six months on the level of local and state cooperation.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 19, 1993
