WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) on a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) requesting U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland release guidance memos produced by the DOJ on reinstating funding for sanctuary cities and jurisdictions.
“Today, at least 11 states have adopted sanctuary policies and hundreds of local governments have established themselves as sanctuary cities. This leaves their citizens at risk to the dangerous, violent criminal aliens who are released because these jurisdictions either fail to notify federal officials, or refuse to cooperate with reasonable requests to detain them,” the senators wrote. “In order to better understand current DOJ policy, and the impact it will have on the public safety, health, and well-being of hardworking Americans, we demand, as a matter of Congressional oversight, that you immediately release any guidance memos related to the decision to reinstate funding for sanctuary cities and jurisdictions.”
Senators Cramer and Tillis are joined on the letter by Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Steve Daines (R-MT), Mike Braun (R-IN), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Roger Wicker (R-MS), and James Lankford (R-OK).
Click here to read the full letter.
Senator Cramer has been working to improve transparency in guidance documents issued by federal agencies in light of President Biden’s decision to reverse a Trump Administration Executive Order that required agencies to post guidance documents in a searchable database. Learn more here.