PHILADELPHIA –  Mayor Jim Kenney released the following statement on Senator Toomey’s proposed legislation to cut off federal funding to “sanctuary cities.”

“Senator Toomey’s bill is pulled straight from Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant playbook. The City of Philadelphia does cooperate with the federal government in the case of suspected terrorism, when the individual has been charged with a federal crime and when the individual in question has committed violent first or second degree felonies. Senator Toomey’s inaccurate claims to the contrary are nothing more than fearmongering to further his reelection campaign and to distract from his record of supporting funding cuts to the police.”

Mayor Kenney has long been a supporter of Philadelphia’s immigrant communities and one of his first acts as Mayor was to reinstate Philadelphia’s sanctuary city status through an executive order. That executive order is available HERE.