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On July 1, 2015 -- almost exactly two years ago to the day -- Kathryn Steinle was shot and killed while walking in San Francisco by an undocumented immigrant who had been deported from the U.S. multiple times after repeatedly entering the country illegally.

A law named for Kathryn, "Kate's Law," is one of two bills the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to consider on Thursday meant to both crack down on "sanctuary cities" and toughen penalties for those previously deported who re-enter or attempt to re-enter the country.

Kate Steinle was just one victim of a crime committed by an undocumented immigrant, and the stories of others like Kate -- those whose lives were ended by crimes committed by people who entered the U.S. illegally -- have found a prominent placement in the narrative of the downfalls of America's immigration system at the bedrock of President Trump's platform.

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Dominic Durden

Durden, 30, was riding his motorcycle when he was killed in an accident with an undocumented immigrant driving a pickup truck.

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 26: Sabine Durden (R) of Mineral Spring, Arkansas, whose son Dominic Durden was killed in a traffic accident with an undocumented immigrant, receives a hug from Acting Assistant Director of VOICE Office Barbara Gonzalez (2nd R) after a news conference April 26, 2017 in Washington, DC. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly held a news conference to announce the opening of the new Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) office. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Jamiel Shaw Jr., 17, was shot and killed near his home by two undocumented immigrant men.

Jamiel Shaw holds a memorial pin featuring his murdered son, Jamiel Shaw Jr., 17, who was killed by in Los Angeles an illegal immigrant. Shaw joined others talking about dealing with the loss of their children and shared a meal together during an annual Holiday Party hosted by Justice for Murdered Children at Mills Park community room in Carson. The group works with police to help solve case of murdered children. Hundreds of donated gifts were given to the children of the families. (Photo by Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Sgt. Brandon Mendoza

Mendoza, 32, was killed in a head-on collision when an undocumented drunk driver crashed into his vehicle.

Immigration Reform Advocate Mary Ann Mendoza, left, speaks during the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., on Monday, July 18, 2016. Republican factions trying to stop Donald Trump's nomination noisily disrupted a vote on party convention rules, displaying the fissures in the party on the first day of its national convention. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Grant Ronnebeck

Grant Ronnebeck, 21,was shot in the face during a shift at the Quick Trip mart by an undocumented immigrant.

Montgomery County Police Department Chief Thomas Manger listens to testimony by other witnesses as he appears before a Senate Judiciary Committee on U.S. immigration enforcement policies, on Capitol Hill in Washington July 21, 2015. Pictured at right is murder victim Grant Ronnebeck, whose death was alleged to be at the hands of an undocumented immigrant. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Sarah Root

Sarah Root, 21, was killed in a car accident by an undocumented drunk driver who was driving while three times over the legal limit.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - SEPTEMBER 28: Donald Trump invites Michelle Root onstage whose daughter, 21-year-old Sarah Root, was killed in January by a drunk driver who turned out to be in the country illegally at a Trump rally on September 28, 2016 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Trump has been campaigning today in Iowa, Wisconsin and Chicago. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Kathryn Steinle

Kathryn Steinle, 32, was murdered while walking along a San Francisco pier by an undocumented criminal who had been deported several times prior.

strolling on San Francisco's Embarcadero, was a tragedy.

Family members of murder victim Kathryn Steinle, allegedly killed at the hands of an undocumented immigrant, react as her father Jim Steinle (not pictured) testifies about her murder during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on U.S. immigration enforcement policies, on Capitol Hill in Washington July 21, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

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Many of these victims' families felt championed by the president's campaign agenda, and movement of these two bills through the House could mean Trump is one step closer to making good on his "law and order" promises he proudly touted throughout the 2016 election season.

Fathers like Jamiel Shaw and Steve Ronnebeck, whose sons were both gunned down by illegal immigrants, were invited by the Trump team to take part in campaign events. Jamiel Shaw appeared at the 2016 Republican National Convention to tell the story of his 17-year-old son's death, while Ronnebeck spoke at an August campaign rally in Phoenix, where he told a crowd of his son's being shot in the face while working a shift at a convenience store in Mesa, Ariz.

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Sabine Durden's 30-year-old son, Dominic, was killed in 2012 while driving his motorcycle when an undocumented immigrant crashed into him with a pickup truck. Durden, like Jamiel Shaw, spoke of her son's death and the need for at the RNC.

"'I've been talking about my son's death since he was killed in 2012, and no one listened until Donald Trump," Durden said. "Donald Trump is not only my hero. He's my lifesaver."

Both "Kate's Law" and the "No Sanctuary for Criminals Act" are sponsored by GOP Rep. Bob Goodlatte, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee.

"We passed [Kate's Law] in the last Congress and it didn't go anywhere," Goodlatte recently told Fox News, "and we're hoping the Senate will take it up because it has such enormous public support."

According to the Hill, Democrats will encourage members of their caucus to vote no on the bill cracking down on sanctuary cities, but will be less so pressing when it comes to "Kate's Law."

RELATED: A look at "Sanctuary Cities" in the US

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"Kate's Law is a little more complicated," Democratic whip Rep. Steny Hoyer reportedly told reporters on Tuesday. "I'm advising members to look at it carefully and see what their conclusion is."

The Trump Administration issued a statement expressing support for the No Sanctuary for Criminals Act this week, saying President Trump would sign the bill into law if passed in its current state.

"The Administration strongly supports House passage of H.R. 3003, the No Sanctuary for Criminals Act," a statement from the Trump administration released on Tuesday read. "This bill would ensure that American taxpayers are not subsidizing States and localities that work to affirmatively thwart Federal law enforcement efforts."

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But David Ferrucci, who ran IBM's Watson project for the 2011 Jeopardy challenge and now runs an AI company called Elemental Cognition, asserts that machines have to defend themselves. "I need an explanation. I wanted to be able to critique it," he tells Axios.

Why it matters: Machines that don't explain themselves scare people who worry about godlike computer overlords. But researchers like Ferrucci are posing a more fundamental question: Are we ourselves willing to be held accountable for decisions we base on those of a computer? Unless he knows the computer's rationale, Ferrucci doesn't want to gamble. And others agree: Darpa, the Pentagon's radical research lab, is studying what it calls "Explainable Artificial Intelligence," giving it the acronym XAI.

Let's talk about it: The debate played out on stage at the O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference this week in New York. Ferrucci argued that the best way to get to the kind of AI he is thinking of the kind you can have a normal exchange of opinions with is to study and develop a computer that thinks like a human. "[But] there is a level to those dialogues that we are nowhere close to having," he said.

The future: Josh Tennenbaum, a professor at MIT, said the answer is to study young children and develop machine intelligence that learns and thinks like them. He played a video of an 18-month-old child who, confronted with an adult having trouble putting books into a closed cabinet, spontaneously opens its doors and watches to make sure the troubled man succeeds. "That's the heart of intelligence right there. And I think that's the grand challenge for AI," he said. "...If we could reverse engineer what's going on in that kid's mind, just think what we can do with robots and other machines that could really help us out."

The Amazon effect: At this stage commercially, many of us are using Alexa or technology like it at home, but Kris Hammond, chief scientist at Narrative Science, said, "Alexa understands words. It doesn't understand language." Alexa can hold only one idea at a time. If you ask a followup, it does not remember what was just said. "You need to be able to challenge," Hammond said. "Otherwise, we would only be listening."

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President Trump called on Congress to pass two bills that will come to a vote tomorrow: one that would cut funding to "sanctuary cities," which provide safe haven to undocumented immigrants who might otherwise face deportation, and another "Kate's Law," which would increase the maximum penalty for criminals who entered the country illegally.

"We're calling on all members of Congress to honor grieving American families by passing these lifesaving measures in the House, in the Senate, and then sending them to my desk for a very rapid signature," Mr. Trump said in a White House meeting Wednesday with families of victims of violent crimes committed by undocumented immigrants.

In the meeting, the victims' families shared stories of their lost loved ones. One mother who lost her son fought back tears, saying that if the legislation were "done earlier, my son would still be here." Another grieving mother brought the remains of her son with her to the White House and praised the Mr. Trump's decision to run for president.

Both bills will receive a vote in the House tomorrow. The Republican-proposed sanctuary cities bill, titled the "No Sanctuary for Criminals Act," would withhold federal funds from cities or states that don't cooperate with federal laws regarding undocumented immigrants. It also states that local law enforcement cannot be precluded from asking immigrants about their legal status.

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The second bill, "Kate's Law," is named after 32-year-old Kate Steinle who was shot and killed in San Francisco by an undocumented immigrant with seven felony convictions who had already been deported five times. If passed, it would impose a mandatory five-year minimum sentence on immigrants who have previously been deported and re-enter the country.

According to the White House website, "the bill is consistent with the Administration's broader efforts to strengthen enforcement of our immigration laws and improve the security of our Nation's borders."

Earlier Wednesday, Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Thomas D. Homan also encouraged the House to vote in favor of the bills, describing them as "the most significant piece of legislation I've seen that's going to help keep our communities safe and law enforcement officers safe."

"The America I grew up in, you respected the laws, you revered law enforcement professionals, and I just see in the last several years there's almost this feeling that it's okay to not comply with the law, it's okay to not comply with law enforcement officers," Homan said. "No longer are we going to vilify the men and women of ICE for doing their job, they're American patriots, every one of them," he later added.

In a White House briefing Wednesday, Homan said that the administration's priority is the removal of criminal aliens, but that anyone in the country illegally is subject to deportation. He also explained that with regard to Kate's Law, the more deportations undocumented immigrants have on their records, the more severe the penalties they could be subject to.

"If we don't have border security, if we don't enforce the laws that's written in the books, you're never going to patrol the border," Homan said. "Why do you think we have 11-12 million people in the country now? Because there has been this notion that if you get by the border, you get in the United States, you have a U.S. citizen kid, no one's looking for you. But those days are over."

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The father of a 21-year-old who was killed by an illegal immigrant in 2015 urged those who would justify sanctuary cities to recognize that such policies are bad for the country.

Grant Ronnebeck was killed just before 4amonJanuary 22, 2015 during his overnight shift at his convenience store job in Mesa, Arizona.

Apolinar Altamirano, 29, entered the store, dumped some change on the counter and demanded cigarettes, but while Grant counted the change he pulled out a gun. Grant handed over the cigarettes, but that was not enough for Altamirano, who shot him in the face, killing him instantly.

"This isn't just a one time thing. It's not an isolated incident," Grant's father Steve said. "This is every day."

"Sanctuary cities is just inviting that crime to their neighborhoods, to their streets," Ronnebeck said. "They're inviting the chance for this to happen to their children."

"It's not worth it," Ronnebeck concluded.

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The suspect had been charged with burglary in 2012 and was out on $10,000 ICE bond at the time he murdered Grant.

President Trump met with Steve and other families of victims Wednesday, promising justice and the passage of the No Sanctuary for Criminals Act, which would put an end to sanctuary cities and Kate's law, which sets harsher punishments for illegal immigrant felons who re-enter the U.S.

"You lost the people that you love because our government refused to enforce our nation's immigration laws," the president said.

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