{"id":12642,"date":"2016-04-27T10:35:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T14:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=12642"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:30:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:30:58","slug":"louisiana-committee-advances-anti-sanctuary-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/04\/27\/louisiana-committee-advances-anti-sanctuary-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Committee Advances Anti-Sanctuary Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Louisiana House Committee on the Judiciary unanimously voted to advance two measures<\/a> last week to combat sanctuary policies in the state, House Bill (HB) 1148<\/a>, and HB 453<\/a>. The legislation is a part of a nationwide effort to halt the recent trend of local governments with policies meant to impede the enforcement of immigration law by refusing cooperation with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).<\/p>\n Sanctuary policies are ordinances, resolutions, executive actions or any initiatives that prohibit local officials from inquiring, acting on, or reporting an individual’s immigration status\u2014even when there is reasonable suspicion that an individual is in the country illegally. Louisiana\u2019s largest city, New Orleans, adopted a sanctuary policy earlier this year that prohibits its law enforcement from so much as inquiring into an individual\u2019s immigration status.<\/p>\n HB 1148 targets sanctuary policies by prohibiting any state funding to be spent in the implementation or enforcement of any sanctuary policy and penalizing state or local governments or offices that adopt sanctuary policies by prohibiting them from borrowing any money from the state for new infrastructure projects. HB 453 also target sanctuary policies by allowing victims of crimes committed by criminal aliens released by sanctuary cities to sue the city or parish with such policy. Both bills were supported without opposition in the House Committee on the Judiciary last Thursday.<\/p>\n