I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1076 
To provide that section 9 of Executive Order 13768, relating to sanctuary 
jurisdictions, shall have no force or effect, to prohibit the use of funds 
for certain purposes, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 15, 2017 
Ms. CLARKE of New York (for herself, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS 
of Illinois, Ms. NORTON, Ms. BASS, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. SOTO, Ms. 
FUDGE, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, Mr. CLYBURN, Mr. THOMPSON of Mis-
sissippi, Mr. EVANS, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. CLEAVER, Mrs. 
DEMINGS, Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER, Ms. KELLY of Illinois, Mr. LAWSON 
of Florida, Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. 
CLAY, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, and Mrs. BEATTY) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Ju-
diciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government 
Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide that section 9 of Executive Order 13768, relating 
to sanctuary jurisdictions, shall have no force or effect, 
to prohibit the use of funds for certain purposes, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protect Our Sanctuary 
Cities Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) Since this Nation’s founding, immigrants 
such as Alexander Hamilton, Albert Einstein, 
Marcus Garvey, and others have enhanced our civic 
life and helped spur economic growth. They have 
founded companies that changed the world, pushed 
the limits of our minds, and made us better people 
in the process. 
(2) Immigrants overwhelmingly follow the law 
and seek better lives for themselves and their fami-
lies. 
(3) Section 9 of Executive Order 13768, which 
imposes consequences on so-called ‘‘sanctuary juris-
dictions’’, threatens to impede our societal progress 
by forcing immigrants to live in fear and be sub-
jected to inhumane treatment that is not in keeping 
with our values and previous commitments. 
(4) This section of the Executive order harms 
public safety by destroying trust between law en-
forcement officials and immigrant communities. It 
would force local law enforcement officials to depart 
from their bipartisan commitment to respecting the 
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confidentiality of their sources, which would make it 
harder to engage in community policing. 
(5) State, city, and local law enforcement offi-
cials already cooperate with Federal authorities to 
initiate removal proceedings against criminal aliens 
who commit one of over 10 dozen serious crimes. 
(6) Threats to diminish funding to State, city, 
and local law enforcement officials for failing to 
comply with section 9 of the Executive order con-
stitute a grave threat to public safety. 
(7) Section 9 of Executive Order 13768, also 
constitutes a threat to public health by making it 
less likely that undocumented immigrants with life 
threatening contagious diseases will seek health 
treatment because of their fear of being removed. 
(8) This section of the Executive order also 
places our Nation’s economic health at risk, since 
immigrants contribute to the vibrancy of our econ-
omy by performing jobs that many Americans are 
unwilling to perform and pay taxes that fund public 
benefit programs. 
(9) Section 9 of Executive Order 13768 unlaw-
fully commandeers State, city, and local law enforce-
ment officials in service of an inhumane and ill-con-
ceived goal. 
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