Family members of victims killed by people in the country illegally gathered at the California State Capitol Tuesday, to support a measure that would defund the state’s sanctuary cities.
"Somebody who wasn't even supposed to be in our country took his life, so this is the last picture with my son," Agnes Gibboney said.
KTXL reports, that Gibboney's son was killed by an illegal immigrant in 2002.
"Do it the right way. There's a pathway to citizenship," Gibboney said. "Apply. Do it the right way, like everyone else who came to this country legally."
AB 1252, authored by Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach), looks to defund the state’s “sanctuary cities” and force state and local law enforcement agencies to work with federal agencies like ICE.
"The bottom line is this, if we allow criminals to be in our state that are here illegally in the first place, many times we are talking about felons who should have been departed in the first place," Allen said.
But Democrats like Assemblyman Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) have a different idea about sanctuary cities. He believes Allen's legislation will fail.
“It's not going to go anywhere," Bonta told KTXL. "We're doing the right thing. The threat of funding is a threat, but an empty threat."
Of course this is all taking place in California, so Allen’s bill did not pass the committee vote on Tuesday.