{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/sen-banks-blocks-democrats-attempt-to-create-sanctuary-bus-stops-for-illegal-aliens/", "Sen. Banks Blocks Democrats\u2019 Attempt to Create \u201cSanctuary Bus Stops\u201d for Illegal Aliens", "2026-09-30", "2026", "2026-09", "Republican", "Senate", "IN", "Jim Banks", "B001299", "www.banks.senate.gov", "banks", "https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) delivered remarks on the Senate floor objecting to Sen. Chris Murphy\u2019s (D-Conn.) legislation that would prohibit ICE from enforcing federal immigration law at school bus stops. Banks warned that the bill would create \u201csanctuary bus stops\u201d for illegal aliens and put children in harm\u2019s way.\n\nDuring his remarks, Banks highlighted recent crimes committed by illegal aliens in Indiana and pointed to ICE\u2019s successful five-day operation in early September that resulted in the arrests of 426 illegal aliens across the state.\n\nClick the image above or view the full speech here.\n\nSee remarks below:\n\n\u201cMr. President, reserving the right to object: this is just another attempt by Democrats to stop ICE from doing their job and enforcing our immigration laws. As you\u2019re seeing today, Democrats will do anything they can to stop ICE from securing our nation.\n\n\u201cIn my state of Indiana over the weekend, an illegal with an ICE detainer, drunk and behind the wheel, killed an innocent 33-year-old woman, Tamara Thomas, as she was walking near a gas station in Indianapolis.\n\n\u201cTamara is not the first Hoosier who lost her life because of the illegal immigration crisis.\n\n\u201cIn February, an illegal ran a red light and killed 64-year-old Terry Schultz in Avon, IN.\n\n\u201cAnd in that same month, an illegal semi-truck driver who entered the country using Biden\u2019s CBP One app swerved into oncoming traffic and killed four Amish men in Jay County, IN.\n\n\u201cA couple of months ago, Indianapolis police arrested an illegal from Mexico, who now faces 30 charges, including rape, sexual assault and kidnapping. This illegal came into the country under the Biden Administration.\n\n\u201cLast year, a 35-year-old illegal who was living in Indianapolis was sentenced to 35 years in prison after he sexually exploited and abused a 15-year-old girl.\n\n\u201cHoosiers are going to keep getting killed and harmed by illegals unless we let ICE officers do their jobs. The madness needs to end, and it needs to end now. ICE needs to be allowed to do their job without Democrat politicians getting in their way.\n\n\u201cThis bill that I am objecting to will prohibit ICE from operating at school bus stops. But we know that illegal aliens are often at or near bus stops.\n\n\u201cIn Virginia last year, ICE arrested a 36-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, a convicted pedophile, who exposed himself to a child at a school bus stop! How can anyone hear this awful story and think that the answer is to get ICE out of bus stops?!\n\n\u201cMr. President, if we prohibit ICE from operating at school bus stops, you know what will happen? We\u2019ll just create \u201csanctuary bus stops!\u201d All the illegals in the country will just hide out at bus stops, knowing that ICE isn\u2019t allowed to touch them! Bus stops will become the most unsafe places in the country.\n\n\u201cI mean, it\u2019s just crazy to me to think that we should prevent ICE from operating at bus stops. ICE needs to be allowed to operate wherever the job takes them, especially at places where illegal aliens can harm innocent children.\n\n\u201cLook, ICE is not the enemy here. But Democrats are trying to make them the enemy! Just a couple of weeks ago, ICE conducted a 5-day operation in Indiana, which resulted in the arrests of 426 illegals. These criminals include people charged with robberies, drug trafficking, sex crimes, and more. And ICE arrested an illegal from Guatemala who illegally voted in a national election in Indiana. I thought Democrats said that type of thing never happens!\n\n\u201cSo here we are again. Instead of giving ICE more resources, not less, instead of doing anything we can to deport illegals from our country, Democrats are here asking for unanimous consent to tie ICE\u2019s hands behind their backs.\n\n\u201cI won\u2019t let that happen. 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