In a clip posted to X on March 5, 2025, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna excoriated a panel of democratic mayors over their status as sanctuary cities. She concluded the interaction by encouraging Pam Bondi, the attorney general, to investigate these cities. The clip went viral on social media, and many users reacted to it with their own comments.
“Rep. Anna Paulina Luna announced she will be referring ALL FOUR Mayors present today at the Congressional Hearing over to Pam Bondi for criminal prosecution! Hold them accountable! Luna: “You are in direct violation of 8 U.S. Code § 1324.” “I’m all going to be criminally referring you to the Department of Justice for investigation, and as soon as I leave here, these will be going over to Pam Bondi,” the original post said.
“So you don’t believe that banning the transfer of individuals into ICE custody for the purpose of civil immigration enforcement encourages illegal immigration into Chicago?” the full transcript reads. ” How about agencies? Sorry, one second, or agents stop being able to stop arrest or detain individuals based solely on their immigration status or administrative warrants?
So we comply with all laws, local, state, and federal,” replied the mayor of Chicago. “To me, after this Lent of questioning, it’s very clear that these policies that you have all implicated are active and alive and well in your cities, are in direct violation with us, title eight, code, subsection 1324, and it’s a federal offense, but you all speak about a broken immigration system, and yet here you guys are aiding and abetting in that entire process.”
I want to be very clear about something, open border policies, which is something that you guys are talking about, hurts people on both sides, meaning the people that are coming here illegally, and then American citizens as well. I do not think you guys are bad people, but I think that you are ideologically misled, which is why, unfortunately, based on your responses, I’m all going to be criminally referring you to the Department of Justice for investigation, and as soon as I leave here, these will be going over to me and Bondi.
I’m not doing that to exert effort to bully you guys, but I do believe that your policies are hurting the American people, and you can make that known with the evidence that you could present to the Department of Justice. But if you guys continue doing what you’re doing, you’re not going to help anyone. You’re going to hurt more people. And that’s exactly why I’m tired of it. The American people are tired of it.
“Maybe this is why the court system is so backed up…. Everyone gets referred for prosecution but the only one I’ve ever seen get prosecuted was a guy who was innocent and is now president…. When are we gonna actually follow through and put real criminals behind bars,” suggested one user. “What’s amazing to me is these mayors are putting themselves at legal/criminal risk for people who aren’t supposed to be here!” added another.
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“I understand the federalism argument but this “sanctuary city” craze has got to end. Rather than jail Congress and the Executive must withhold ALL federal $$ from cities who play these silly games,” reacted one account. “They need to be arrested they were warned. It is a Felony Homan warned not to cross red line its TREASON. Did they swear an Oath to the Constitution?” another commenter said.
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