GOP Maps Out New Ways to Throw People in Federal Prison Senators drafting massive combination bill with "Kate's Law" and "Back the Blue" mandatory minimum sentences that are expensive, unneeded.

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It would create new mandatory minimums, prepare the feds to imprison thousands more people, find new ways to punish sanctuary cities, and collect biometric and biographic data on anybody immigration takes into custody, regardless of citizenship status.

What on earth do new federal mandatory minimum sentences on people who assault or kill police officers have to do with all this immigration stuff? Nothing.

The bill folds in the "Back the Blue Act," which creates a host of new and completely unnecessary federal mandatory minimum sentences for anybody who kills or injures a police officer, a judge, or any local public safety officer whose agency receives any sort of federal funding.

These new mandatory minimums would accomplish two things: filling up federal prisons and eating up tax money.

Families Against Mandatory Minimums calculated out the likely costs of both sets of new mandatory minimums, based on current trends.

The mandatory minimums under Kate's Law would increase federal prison costs by $2.5 billion a year and would require more than two dozen new federal detention centers, based on current trends.

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