Families of those victims who were allegedly killed by undocumented immigrants recently made a plea to the Congress to take action against such crimes and to get the illegal criminals off the streets of the country. They argued that if the present government had done more to detain and deport undocumented immigrants their family members would have been alive today.

One of the parents of a girl who was recently killed by an undocumented immigrant stated that any kind of action to put an end to the crime on the streets was welcome. He said that they “realize the complexities of immigration laws, however, we feel strongly that some legislation should be discussed, enacted and/or changed to take these undocumented immigrant felons off our streets for good.” 

Following the girl’s death, lawmakers had introduced a series of bills. One of them was a law  that would require all jurisdictions to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement or risk losing access to federal law enforcement grants. This has been the focus of most of the other legislation.

These bills would penalize the more than 300 jurisdictions where officials argue that limiting cooperation with ICE helps them protect the community and doesn’t shield criminals. Law enforcement leaders were urging federal lawmakers to let localities craft their own policies, including declining to cooperate with federal programs that they say make people afraid to work with police.