In Sen. Jeff Merkley’s recent virtual town hall, he dismissed concerns about rampant illegal immigration and repeated the adage that immigrants have lower crime rates than citizens.
able to show it s something a little different than that. my time is expired. see you on the second round. thank you. filling in for senator crews next. thank you. mr. barr, i want to commend you for stepping forward. thank you very much. and i want to say thank you for your family as well for being so supportive in this endeavor. i m really pleased to have all of you here, so thank you for doing that. mr. barr, later this month, i do plan on reintroducing sara s law which is a bill that would require the detention of illegal aliens who have been charged with a crime that resulted in the death or serious injury, bodily injury, of another person. that sounds pretty commonsense, but i ll give you a little background. this bill is named after sara root. she was a resident of council bluffs, iowa, and sara was killed by an alien who was
main problem with sanctuary cities is they re not giving us information about criminals they have in their custody. this is not chasing after, you know, families or anything like that, this is going after criminals who the state and local law enforcement have in custody and not allowing us to take custody of them and get them out of the country. that s the problem with sanctuary cities. correct, which could be the situation that edwin majia, who killed sara root. we would love to see that young man brought to justice. thank you very much for your time. thank you. just follow-up on that, senator klobuchar, don t count this against her time. you say you want access to people who have committed crimes or are accused of committing crimes outside a status violation? that s right, senator. senator klobuchar? thank you. thank you, mr. barr. i take it as a positive that
when it s raining and you don t take the umbrella away. in the record, a letter that i just today received in support of senator sessions nomination from the national shooting sports foundation. senator? without objection. thank you, mr. chairman. senator sessions, i d like to talk a little bit about the sara root case. i know you and i have discussed it briefly last summer. sara root was a woman who was killed a year ago this month in omaha. she had just graduated from college and she was killed by a drunken street racer. omaha authorities believe this guy had been engaged in similar activity many times in the past. he was an illegal immigrant. he ran into her car, killed her right after her graduation. he was detained by omaha police. they ultimately notified the department of home land security, this guy is a flight risk. he was able to post a fairly insignificant bond and he