NewsNation Host Chris Cuomo would not allow Democrat Senator Cory Booker (NJ) for his vote against the Laken Riley Act.
The act would mandate that federal authorities detain illegal immigrants who committed theft related crimes, The Daily Caller reports.
Only 12 Democrat senators voted for the bill when it passed the Senate. Cuomo couldn’t understand why Booker would vote against it, so he pressed him on it.
The Daily Caller continues:
“I got to tell you, that Laken Riley bill — I don’t understand anybody who would vote against that … I mean you’re saying it right now as a proposition, senator, that if somebody’s here illegally — I mean that’s the key word — but even if you forgive the entry, if they’re here and they commit a serious crime against women or children, who would vote against a bill to superpower authorities to get them out of here?” Cuomo asked.
Booker insisted that he “would never vote against a bill that did that,” but argued that the legislation was falsely advertised.
“This is what the bill was advertised as, but Chris, please. I wish I had the text of the bill here. It creates a mandatory detention for anyone so much as accused of any crime, even shoplifting,” Booker said. “Anybody of any age, even if the charges are cleared, that will suck up, as we were told by law enforcement professional after law enforcement professional, when you say it’s mandatory, when your department can be sued, you’re going to be drawing and billions of dollars of resources that should be better targeted and applied to the dangerous folks.”
“And, it gives every attorney general in the country the ability to sue the federal government if they allow even one person from, say, India in, if India is not fully complying with our visa application,” he continued. “So in other words, one attorney general can upend all of our immigration law and stop people coming in for research. Stop engineers coming in. Read the fine print.”
In the House the bill passed with the support of 48 Democrats and all Republicans. The Bill would allow states to sue the Department of Homeland Security for damages caused by illegal immigration.
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