{"id":199756,"date":"2026-03-06T14:14:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=199756"},"modified":"2026-03-06T14:14:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:14:46","slug":"house-judiciary-committee-passes-mcclintock-immigration-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=199756","title":{"rendered":"House Judiciary Committee Passes McClintock Immigration Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;The House Judiciary Committee today passed Congressman Tom McClintock\u2019s H.R. 7640, the Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/unnamed.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-199757\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/unnamed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/unnamed.png 820w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/unnamed-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/unnamed-768x292.png 768w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/unnamed-570x217.png 570w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/unnamed-701x267.png 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bill asserts federal supremacy over enforcement of immigration law by pre-empting so-called \u201csanctuary\u201d jurisdictions from interfering with local enforcement of immigration law. It allows local jurisdictions in \u201csanctuary\u201d states to work directly with federal law enforcement agencies to uphold immigration laws, protects local law enforcement officers from being sued or harassed by \u201csanctuary\u201d jurisdictions, and re-directs federal law enforcement funds from \u201csanctuary\u201d jurisdictions to those cooperating with federal agencies. It also give victims of criminals released by \u201csanctuary\u201d jurisdictions the right to sue for damages caused by those releases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All of the local sheriffs in my district want desperately to cooperate with ICE to enforce our immigration laws, but the State of California forbids them from doing so,\u201d said Rep. McClintock. \u201cMy bill will allow them to work directly with the federal government to keep their counties safe and to receive the funds that would otherwise go to \u201csanctuary\u201d jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrat-run sanctuary jurisdictions protect criminal illegal aliens and threaten public safety. Rep. McClintock\u2019s Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act is commonsense legislation that will rein in sanctuary policies across the country and help keep Americans safe,\u201d said Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>After passing in committee, the bill will move to passage on the House Floor.<\/p>\n<p># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;The House Judiciary Committee today passed Congressman Tom McClintock\u2019s H.R. 7640, the Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act. The bill asserts federal supremacy over enforcement of immigration law by pre-empting so-called \u201csanctuary\u201d jurisdictions from interfering with local enforcement of immigration law. It allows local jurisdictions in \u201csanctuary\u201d states to work directly with federal law enforcement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/unnamed.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199758,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199756\/revisions\/199758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/199757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}