A Republican-backed bill that would have cut federal funding to localities that do not cooperate with federal immigration laws, known as "sanctuary cities", was blocked by Democrats in a procedural vote by a count of 54-45. It needed 60 votes to pass. A similar bill had passed in the House in July, largely inspired by the murder in San Francisco of Kate Steinle, allegedly by an illegal alien who had been previously deported several times.
Read more at Fox News, The Daily Signal and The Washington Post. If anyone finds my headline objectionable, I'll concede that I'm not the first to take a harsher tone than these sources. See Doug Powers' take on this story at Michelle Malkin's blog (which is where I got the TWP link).
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