Lawmaker urges 'yes' on funding bill, criticizes sanctuary jurisdictions and Democrats over border policy
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Summary
A lawmaker told the panel the border has been 'wide open' for years, claimed 8–10 million unauthorized entries and said jurisdictions refused federal detainers 17,864 times last year; he urged a yes vote on an unspecified funding bill that he said excludes ICE.
A lawmaker urged members to back a funding bill and delivered a sharp critique of sanctuary jurisdictions and Democratic border policy, saying the nation has suffered from deliberate lax enforcement.
Speaking without giving a name or bill number in the transcript, the lawmaker said, "It's all by design" and charged that "for 4 years, it was a wide open border," claiming "8 to 10,000,000 people entered this country." He said left‑wing politicians then provided sanctuary to those people.
The lawmaker listed "18 cities, 11 states, 3 counties, and the District Of Columbia" as jurisdictions he described as sanctuary jurisdictions and asserted that those jurisdictions instructed local law enforcement not to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. He also said that when federal authorities issued detainers asking to be notified before a release, jurisdictions refused "17,864 times last year," a figure he offered as evidence of noncooperation.
He asserted that when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers respond on the street, they are subject to harassment, saying "left wing agitators on the street spit on them, dox them, track them, harass them, swear at them." Those allegations were presented in the remarks without supporting evidence given in the transcript.
Regarding legislation before the body, the lawmaker said, "We have a bill in front of us that funds everything except everything except ICE," and framed that as a policy failure tied to public‑safety concerns. The transcript does not identify the bill by name or number, and no formal vote tally or roll‑call appears in the record provided.
The lawmaker concluded by urging colleagues to vote yes on the unnamed measure and "yielded back." The transcript contains no recorded responses, named votes, or documentary evidence to substantiate the numerical claims or the causal link the speaker asserted between sanctuary policies and specific criminal incidents.
The remarks were delivered as floor or committee debate; the speaker did not provide the bill text, the bill number, or corroborating sources for the statistics and allegations referenced. Next procedural steps were not recorded in the transcript excerpt.
