WATCH: GOP senators call for end to funding for sanctuary cities: ‘Enough is enough’

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Republican senators told Fox News Digital that they are fed up with wide sanctuary cities similar Los Angeles attempting to impede national migration authorities from enforcing the law, immoderate suggesting that it is clip the legislative subdivision intervened to propulsion their funding.

"We person to say, ‘Enough is enough,’" said Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala. "I don't recognize wherefore we would proceed to springiness national dollars to idiosyncratic who doesn't abide by national law. I mean, deliberation astir that. That is precise simple."

Speaking with Fox News Digital successful the Senate bureau building halls, Britt said, "There's been nary more-litigated contented implicit the past 4 years than the millions and millions of amerciable migrants coming crossed our border."

"What a sanctuary city says is, ‘You tin perpetrate a crime, we volition let for lawlessness, and we volition not crook you implicit to the national authorities.’ I mean, deliberation astir that. That is implicit insanity, and we're not going to basal for it anymore," she said.

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Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla. and Katie Britt, R-Ala., spoke to Fox News Digital astir cutting disconnected sanctuary cities' national funding. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images and Getty and Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

"We person enabled that benignant of atrocious behaviour for excessively long," said Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio. "Look, the world is, to usage the word for my colleagues, ‘Nobody is supra the law.’ So, if you person a politician oregon region enforcement oregon a governor, whoever you privation to say, that's not pursuing national law, that's wholly unacceptable. And the instrumentality that we person present is national funding."

"I've called for that successful my campaign, and I deliberation each Republicans, we should instrumentality steadfast connected that," helium added.

Meanwhile, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., simply told Fox News Digital that sanctuary cities blocking migration "shouldn’t" person national funding.

"I mean, archetypal off, if you're a sanctuary city, you're not doing the close happening for your citizens. You're not keeping them safe," said Scott. "I deliberation each of america are truly frustrated due to the fact that we don't person an migration strategy that works. There's radical who privation to travel to our state legally and enactment successful our state and spell home. That's what we ought to beryllium focused on, however bash we amended that, but marque definite that if you're not vetted, you shouldn't beryllium capable to travel into this country."

MASSIVE IDENTITY THEFT SCHEME LED BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS UNCOVERED AFTER RAID AT MEATPACKING PLANT

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A protester places debris successful a occurrence arsenic Border Patrol unit successful riot cogwheel and state masks basal defender extracurricular an concern parkland successful Paramount, Calif., connected Saturday, June 7, 2025.  (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

On the different broadside of the aisle, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., told Fox News Digital that sanctuary metropolis officials not cooperating with ICE and national authorities "is not an contented successful Virginia, due to the fact that . . . I'm not alert of a sanctuary metropolis successful Virginia."

Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, responded to Fox News Digital by saying, "I don't person immoderate remark connected that, I'm focused close present connected what's going connected successful the Middle East."

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said, "I deliberation that everybody should travel the law" oregon "accept the consequences."

"I can't archer you that I cognize legally what are the consequences that a assemblage deliberately disobeying thing from the national government. But immoderate those consequences are, if a assemblage makes that decision, past it has to carnivore the consequences," Cassidy added.

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Protesters look disconnected with constabulary extracurricular a national gathering successful downtown Los Angeles for an anti-Trump "No Kings Day" objection successful a metropolis that has been the absorption of protests against Trump's migration raids connected June 14, 2025, successful Los Angeles, California.  (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Tenn., said that sanctuary policies "led successful galore ways to these LA riots, that the L.A. constabulary weren't consenting to assistance erstwhile our ICE agents were successful trouble."

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"What we cannot tolerate is section officials impeding ICE officers from doing their job, and that's precisely what's happening successful immoderate of these sanctuary cities," said Marshall. "So, if that means the powerfulness of the purse, past truthful beryllium it. But immoderate we do, President Trump took an oath, I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution to marque each of america safe."

Peter Pinedo is simply a authorities writer for Fox News Digital.

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