Anna Paulina Luna Explains Why She Criminally Referred 'Sanctuary City' Mayors To The DOJ

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Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) joined "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss referring 'sanctuary city' mayors to the DOJ for criminal prosecution.

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00:00Your news made headlines that you were criminally referring these mayors to the DOJ.

00:06Did you tip your Republican colleagues off?

00:08Did you let them know?

00:09Did you tip off the Democrats?

00:10Was everyone shocked?

00:11I mean, what are those conversations with your colleagues looking like?

00:14Well, look, again, as I stated earlier, I wanted to see what the mayor's responses were

00:19first before I made the referral.

00:21So I came with the referrals ready, but it didn't necessarily mean that I was going to

00:25end up referring them.

00:26And again, I went through that line of questioning, got them on record with their own policies

00:30versus that of federal law.

00:32And so I hope that the DOJ considers all of that with evidence when they take up the case.

00:35If they do, we're waiting on a response from them currently.

00:38I want to read something from the American Immigration Council.

00:42They said that under the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the federal government

00:46vote may neither issue directives requiring the states to address particular problems

00:51nor command the state's officers or those of their political subdivisions to administer

00:56or enforce a federal regulatory program.

00:58So essentially, do you think that the investigation can go anywhere because of the 10th Amendment?

01:03What do you make of that?

01:04Well, certainly, I think that they're perverting the 10th Amendment in that response.

01:08You know, I would ask them, do they have the same perspective on child pedophiles?

01:11Well, I mean, that that just stopped me in my tracks.

01:16So what do you think?

01:17What do you think their response would be to that?

01:19I think that they're going to try to hand this up in court, and I think that they're

01:22going to try to say that the federal government is overreaching in an effort to protect the

01:26American people.

01:27But these are also the same cities, mind you, that are asking for federal dollars to deal

01:31with the problems that they themselves have caused.

01:33So if they want federal money, you need to comply.

01:34If you don't want federal money, fine, but figure out a way to pay for it.

01:37And then also, too, I think cities' policies stop when American citizens start having their

01:42own constitutional freedoms violated.

01:44When you are no longer able to access life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness because

01:48you have someone extorting you, someone robbing you, someone basically enabling a criminal

01:52activity as we saw with the gangs in Colorado, I mean, that's obviously a violation of any

01:57American-born citizen.

01:59And I would argue that that entire argument in itself that they're bringing forward is

02:03pretty hypocritical.

Anna Paulina Luna Explains Why She Criminally Referred 'Sanctuary City' Mayors To The DOJ

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