Hon. Nancy Pelosi,
Minority Leader, House of Representatives,
Washington, DC. Dear Members of Congress: Cities for Action (C4A) is a
coalition of over 150 mayors and municipal leaders that
advocates for policies to promote the well-being of our
foreign born residents. Our coalition, representing over 50
million residents, has a considerable interest in protecting
all our residents and ensuring that immigrants are not
unjustly criminalized. We are writing to you today to urge
that you oppose Representative Goodlatte's bill, H.R. 3004,
Kate's Law. Kate's Law expands already tough penalties for illegal
reentry and allows the government to detain immigrants
indefinitely without bond or a court hearing. It also
mistakenly implies that illegal reentry cases are under-
enforced. Indeed, illegal reentry prosecutions already
account for 52 percent of all federal prosecutions.
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