{"id":6565,"date":"2019-03-15T18:27:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T22:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.mml.org\/wp\/inside208\/?p=6565"},"modified":"2019-03-15T18:27:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T22:27:33","slug":"house-committee-schedules-hearing-on-sanctuary-city-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2019\/03\/15\/house-committee-schedules-hearing-on-sanctuary-city-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"House Committee Schedules Hearing on &#8220;Sanctuary City&#8221; Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:calc( 75rem + 2.5rem );margin-left: calc(-2.5rem \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-2.5rem \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.25rem;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.25rem;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.25rem;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.25rem;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.25rem;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.25rem;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>The House Military, Veterans, &amp; Homeland Security committee has scheduled a hearing for next Tuesday, March 19th on a recently introduced bill that targets local units of government with any so-called sanctuary city policies or ordinances.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legislature.mi.gov\/doc.aspx?2019-HB-4083\">House Bill 4083 (Hornberger)<\/a> is similar to legislation that the <a href=\"\/inside208\/senate-sanctuary-city-bill-jeopardizes-revenue-sharing\/\">League has previously opposed<\/a>\u00a0that was not enacted.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s bill\u00a0prohibits any community in Michigan from adopting or enforcing a \u201csanctuary city\u201d ordinance or policy.\u00a0 Any city, village or township would be prohibited from enacting or enforcing a law, ordinance, policy or rule that would limit a peace officer or local official from communicating or cooperating with appropriate federal officials on an individual\u2019s immigration status.<\/p>\n<p>The overly broad language allows for a civil action to be brought by any local resident who may interpret a local policy as being in violation of the act and subject the community and specific local elected or appointed officials to damages and attorney costs.\u00a0 Communities would be required to abolish or amend any offending language from their books within 60 days of the effective date of the act, should the bill become law.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the obvious attack on local control and the increased liability local units of government and their employees would face from this proposal, the language in the bill is not clearly defined and could subject local units of government to costly litigation and impair local law enforcement&#8217;s ability to do their job effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Please contact your State Representative and urge them to oppose House Bill 4083.<\/p>\n<p><em>Chris Hackbarth is the League\u2019s director of state &amp; federal affairs. 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