Watch: Gop Senators Call For End To Funding For Sanctuary Cities: ‘enough Is Enough’

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Republican senators told Fox News Digital that they are fed up pinch wide sanctuary cities for illustration Los Angeles attempting to impede national migration authorities from enforcing nan law, immoderate suggesting that it is clip nan legislative branch intervened to propulsion their funding.

"We person to say, ‘Enough is enough,’" said Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala. "I don't understand why we would proceed to springiness national dollars to personification who doesn't abide by national law. I mean, deliberation astir that. That is very simple."

Speaking pinch Fox News Digital successful nan Senate agency building halls, Britt said, "There's been nary more-litigated rumor complete nan past 4 years than nan millions and millions of forbidden migrants coming crossed our border."

"What a sanctuary city says is, ‘You tin perpetrate a crime, we will let for lawlessness, and we will not move you complete to nan national authorities.’ I mean, deliberation astir that. That is absolute insanity, and we're not going to guidelines for it anymore," she said.

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Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla. and Katie Britt, R-Ala., said to Fox News Digital astir cutting disconnected sanctuary cities' national funding. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images and Getty and Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

"We person enabled that benignant of bad behaviour for excessively long," said Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio. "Look, nan reality is, to usage nan word for my colleagues, ‘Nobody is supra nan law.’ So, if you person a politician aliases region executive aliases a governor, whoever you want to say, that's not pursuing national law, that's wholly unacceptable. And nan instrumentality that we person present is national funding."

"I've called for that successful my campaign, and I deliberation each Republicans, we should instrumentality patient connected that," he added.

Meanwhile, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., simply told Fox News Digital that sanctuary cities blocking migration "shouldn’t" person national funding.

"I mean, first off, if you're a sanctuary city, you're not doing nan correct point for your citizens. You're not keeping them safe," said Scott. "I deliberation each of america are really disappointment because we don't person an migration strategy that works. There's group who want to travel to our state legally and activity successful our state and spell home. That's what we ought to beryllium focused on, really do we amended that, but make judge that if you're not vetted, you shouldn't beryllium capable to travel into this country."

MASSIVE IDENTITY THEFT SCHEME LED BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS UNCOVERED AFTER RAID AT MEATPACKING PLANT

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A protester places debris successful a occurrence arsenic Border Patrol unit successful riot cogwheel and state masks guidelines defender extracurricular an business parkland successful Paramount, Calif., connected Saturday, June 7, 2025.  (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

On nan different broadside of nan aisle, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., told Fox News Digital that sanctuary metropolis officials not cooperating pinch ICE and national authorities "is not an rumor successful Virginia, because . . . I'm not alert of a sanctuary metropolis successful Virginia."

Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, responded to Fox News Digital by saying, "I don't person immoderate remark connected that, I'm focused correct now connected what's going connected successful nan Middle East."

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said, "I deliberation that everybody should travel nan law" aliases "accept nan consequences."

"I can't show you that I cognize legally what are nan consequences that a organization deliberately disobeying thing from nan national government. But immoderate those consequences are, if a organization makes that decision, past it has to carnivore nan consequences," Cassidy added.

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Protesters look disconnected pinch constabulary extracurricular a national building successful downtown Los Angeles for an anti-Trump "No Kings Day" objection successful a metropolis that has been nan attraction of protests against Trump's migration raids connected June 14, 2025, successful Los Angeles, California.  (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Tenn., said that sanctuary policies "led successful galore ways to these LA riots, that nan L.A. constabulary weren't consenting to thief erstwhile our ICE agents were successful trouble."

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"What we cannot tolerate is section officials impeding ICE officers from doing their job, and that's precisely what's happening successful immoderate of these sanctuary cities," said Marshall. "So, if that intends nan powerfulness of nan purse, past truthful beryllium it. But immoderate we do, President Trump took an oath, I took an oath to protect and defend nan Constitution to make each of america safe."

Peter Pinedo is simply a authorities writer for Fox News Digital.

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