‘F*cking A**holes’: Lawler Goes Scorched-Earth On Dem Lawmakers Over Sanctuary Cities
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) didn’t mince words after a screaming match on Capitol Hill Tuesday — branding Democratic Reps. Jamie Raskin and Pramila Jayapal “f*cking a**holes” in the hallway outside a House Judiciary hearing on sanctuary cities, and doubling down that the pair deserved every syllable of it.
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The New York Republican’s fury erupted after Jayapal and Raskin used their opening statements to gripe about sitting through a “fourth” hearing on sanctuary policies — moments before grieving mother Jessica Gorman was set to testify about her daughter Sheridan, murdered in Chicago by an illegal immigrant.
“We’re sorry for your loss, but …” is how Lawler summed up the Democrats’ posture in an interview with TMZ afterward. “There’s no ‘but.’ Sanctuary policies are the reason their daughter is dead.”
The shouting match itself was pure cable-news chaos. When Lawler pressed his colleagues on whether they felt the same outrage over Sheridan Gorman and Laken Riley that they’ve expressed for other victims, Raskin snapped back that he did feel the outrage — only for Lawler to fire back that he didn’t, “because if you did, you would not support sanctuary jurisdiction.”
Raskin’s response? “You don’t belong in this committee. You should get the hell out of here.”
Lawler wasn’t backing down. “You’re a disgrace,” he shot back, prompting Raskin to lecture him that he didn’t “understand the rules of the committee” or “the Constitution.”
Lawler said afterward, “Jamie Raskin and Pramila Jayapal are f*cking a**holes. Their conduct in that hearing was disgraceful. I’m introducing my constituents. They lost their daughter. I’m telling their story. And the tragedy that they’ve had to endure because my colleagues refuse, refuse to cooperate when it comes to enforcing our immigration laws, holding criminals accountable.”
He pointed out the Democrats’ irritation at rehashing sanctuary-city policy said everything about their priorities. He noted Jayapal had opened by complaining this was the committee’s fourth hearing on the subject — a gripe Lawler said rang hollow given the body count.
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“These folks shut down the Department of Homeland Security for 118 days,” Lawler told TMZ, blasting his colleagues for refusing “to fund ICE, refused to fund Customs and Border Patrol” during that stretch. “They refused to enforce federal law.”
He saved particular scorn for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul:
You have the governor of New York — a complete a**hole, who decides that she’s going to ban the ability of state and local police from cooperating with federal law enforcement on the issue of immigration enforcement and specifically honoring detainer requests and specifically turning over people who are in New York’s jails for committing crimes under state law; refusing to cooperate and turn them over to federal immigration officials. So I don’t want to hear anything from any of them. They are so full of s***, it’s not even funny.
And you guys may well think this is like a joke. I have a constituent who is dead because of these policies and because they refuse to listen. They had the gall to come in there. They showed up late to begin with, but then they had the gall to dismiss why these Angel families are here?
Lawler also turned the tables on Democrats over the recent deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota — invoking the case to argue his colleagues’ selective outrage was the real scandal. “You had two people that should be alive,” Lawler said, arguing local police were “prohibited from engaging in crowd control and traffic control by the feckless politicians that refused to enforce the law.” His point: the same hands-off approach Democrats defend in immigration enforcement created chaos on the ground in Minnesota too.
“When you refuse to address the fundamental flaws in policy that result in the deaths of innocent Americans, then yes, there is a fundamental problem,” Lawler said. “And that’s what they deserve.”
😳 Rep. Lawler tells @jacob_wass that Raskin, Jayapal, and Hochul are “f**king assholes” for sanctuary city policies. pic.twitter.com/8YRukzgmT8
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