Chairman. there are cities around this country that have laws or executive orders under which they prohibit law enforcement officials from reporting to the Department of Homeland Security when they encounter. through the normal course of law enforcement practice. individuals who are aliens. who are foreign nationals and who are in this country illegally. That. first of all. is a violation of Federal law. Both the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 both prohibit cities from adopting that sort of ordinance. But secondly. it is just wrong. We have Federal law here. and we have people in the ordinary course of their law enforcement activities encountering people who are foreign nationals and in this country illegally. and cities are passing ordinances making it a crime basically for those law enforcement officials to let Department of Homeland Security know that.
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