Attorney General on Sanctuary Cities
Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ surprise appearance at the White House press briefing Monday afternoon has put Sanctuary Cities on notice. Take the federal dollars and uphold the law, or stand by for ramifications.
‘Some states and cities have adopted policies designed to frustrate the enforcement of our immigration laws. This includes refusing to detain known felons under federal detainer requests, or otherwise failing to comply with these laws. For example, the Department of Homeland Security recently issued a report showing that in a single week, there were more than 200 instances of jurisdictions refusing to honor Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer requests with respect to individuals charged or convicted of a serious crime. The charges and convictions against these aliens include drug trafficking, hit and run, rape, sex offenses against a child and even murder,” Sessions said. “Such policies cannot continue. They make our nation less safe by putting dangerous criminals back on our streets.”’
Most areas that refuse to uphold immigration laws, to no one’s surprise, are in California and Florida, with others scattered liberally about the map. New York City mayor Bill de Blasio takes the stance that city risks terror attacks if funding is cut. Sessions argued that the policies of sanctuary cities make America less safe.
“Countless Americans would be alive today … if these policies of sanctuary cities were ended,” Sessions said, who added that he used a tactic that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch employed.
The choice seems pretty clear to me. Take the Federal tax dollars and uphold the law, or figure another way to pay for the illegals that are supported. Because very soon doing both will cease to be an option.
Category: Politics
Fuck it. We don’t need to wall up the border with Mexico, just California.
They want Calexit? I say let ’em! Over/under says 5 years before they turn into another Venezuela.
If the money was cut off from Mexifornia, they would last, perhaps, two years. They have all kinds of bad financial decisions closing in on them.
You mean like their ignoring requests for vital maintenance on the Oroville Dam while handing out all the money they can as fast as they can to illegal aliens?
Among a host of others, yes, that one sticks out. Perhaps, because it was pointed out that Gov. Moonbeam is spending $25Billion a year on illegals.
Don’t forget the Train to Nowhere. Estimates are that the cost stands at $118 Billion now.
And, this doesn’t even go near their unfunded mandates, like billions more owed to pension funds.
I believe the CA left answer will be:
Make their rich pay an even greater “fair share”, with even more folks being notified that they are officially “rich”.
As more “rich” flee, there will be a call for Federal increases in “fair share” collection from more and more “rich, across the country, to be returned to California.
As money disappears like candle smoke in a storm, repeat and increase the above.
Lay blame on greedy “rich” people not paying their “fair share”.
Import more and more newcomers, declaring them “poor” and “needy” for further transfers of “fair” from “rich”
Double-down repeatedly.
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As dumb as that sounds, they are hammering on that anvil as they have since the 80s.
Next up, some sort of “fair” involving severe taxing of departing folks, phrased as “earn it here, spend it here”. Your pension, IRA, or 401k will be conditional on staying put, or will be looted if you dare leave.
They wont -call- it “serfdom”…..
Interesting that it’s actual rich stars in CA that are calling for the rich to pay more. D’oh!
Yep, and let’s not forget that CA Governor Moonbat signed a bill into law allowing illegal aliens to vote and if that isn’t a blatant shot at padding the polls for D-rats I don’t know what it is!
Their state and local government pension systems are in even worse shape than those of Illinois. The infrastructure, as we all noted during the recent rain storms, is no longer adequate and their tax revenues fail to meet budgeted and expected expense requirements. No
Calexit will be the worst disaster of a long line of disasters imposed on California by liberal democrats.
Nice to know Illinois is screwed up but not the MOST a screwed up state in the Union.
The US is like the Mafia, there’s no leaving.
I hope that Sessions and the Trump Administration hammer the dog shit out of those cities/counties/states that have decided to play the sanctuary status game.
This matter raises an issue that that has stuck in my craw for decades: the demise of federalism. What the central gov’t can’t get a court to mandate, the gov’t uses bribery to accomplish. It’s soft coercion. Whether the issue be certain traffic laws (highway funds) or another crappy or silly Dept of Ed mandate, the federal funding business sounds the death knell for federalism. I dream of the day some state strikes it filthy rich and tells the federal gov’t to shove it.
Several states DID strike it rich. Then they elected democrats.
Good point. I guess it’s like the stories of some lottery winners who become instant millionaires. They can’t buy their way out of stupidity, irresponsibility, and shortsightedness.
Unless they live in Illinois.
Then, if they win 288 million dollars the Illinois government only owes them $600.00 and refuses to pay the rest of it.
In other words, all the money they take in for the lottery is just another tax with a supposed rainbow at the end. In reality it is just a bag of $600.00 worth of dog shit…
Hey, they voted for it and good old rahmbo says Chiraq will remain a sanctuary city, that the illegals are safe there, unless they live in the hood, then it’s anybody’s guess how long they’ll be safe…
I’m more than a little surprised to see San Diego and Riverside Counties marked on that map, as the whole “sanctuary” thing is not terribly popular in either.
Generally speaking, the closer you get to the border, the more popular the promised wall becomes.
Whitey, let me amend that veritable truth for you:
“The closer you get to the border, the more reality sets in.”
It was the same in West Germany, when I was stationed there.
Sanctuary cities is simply reversed discrimination. It’s segregation by fiat, forcing people to accept criminals in their midst and making them live in unsafe neighborhoods, all in the name of ‘inclusiveness’ which is anything but.
I know, those no good irish bastards are alway drunk and lazy. While at the same time commiting all the crime.
Yes, and not to mention the confounded drunken leprechauns they bring with them, every time!
It’s them damn Lutherans doing it…
It’s the damned Reformed Lithuanian Amish…
AND Jehovah’s Witnesses gone rogue!
Senior Chief is making fun of you folks by alluding to the attitudes towards the Irish back when they were the immigration threat.
Like all who do so, Chief conveniently overlooks the fact that we Irish came in legally and so were not lawbreakers from the very get go like these who now become illegal and fleeing from authority the very moment they enter our country.
I do believe Senor Chief may be Lars Lite.
If you believe that all the Irish came here legally you are crazy.
Specially when European quotas were drastically cut in 1924 and 1965, and Ireland was still in crippling poverty. They came to America by the thousands.
Irish did come here legally just like smoking pot at that very same time was legal, and snuffing heroin was legal. There were exactly zero laws against all three. If the Nativist could have ever foresaw the wave of Irish due to the famine, sure as shit there would have been laws, and they would have been broken.
I believe Poetrooper is dhiol amac heavy.
CB – with due respect, if there are no immigration laws all immigration is defacto legal. And heroin had not even been invented in the 19th century. Your implied claim that illegal Irish arrived by the thousands when Ireland was dirt poor later – let’s just say absent your providing some proof, I suspect your claim is less than factual. It’s pretty hard to sneak across an ocean.
Although I do know of one from the ’20s who immigrated twice – once to Canada, then to the US. Legally, both times, fyi.
Visa over-stays, either student or vacation ones and they never left.
Ok Opium, unrefined heroin.
Been in a construction site in NYC or Boston? Ever hear the term Turkey?
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25360424
Read the article, it estimates a relatively miniscule amount (as much as 50,000) compared the the overwhelming numbers of others. I will stand corrected – but note that the rate of all emigration from Ireland was quoted at 20,000 over three years – so that 50,000 is the result of decades worth of action? To make up less than half of a percent of the illegal population? There are bigger fish to fry…
Knew you were going to go there. Don’t your backs get sore moving those goal posts all the time?
That is known estimates.
CB has an important point. Those illegal Irish immigrants sneaking into the country 90+ years ago have been murdering, raping, gang bangin’, and generally crime spreein’ regularly, so why are we worrying about all these 11-15 million recent 3rd world illegals. You all just don’t understand the progtard doctrine of equivalency. You know, the one where present day Islamo-fascism Jihad = the Crusades.
You know, when I stop to think about it, I really don’t mind the Irish overstaying their visas. That’s right. I am 100% for deporting every illegal from Mexico, Central America, and South America. I would like every Middle Easterner who is here illegally hunted down, captured and, after a proper hearing, shoved into the hold of a cargo plane and whisked away. But when it comes to the Irish, I’m good. Yeah. So sue me.
Sorry. What I meant to convey was that “I would like every Muslim who is here illegally hunted down….”
Thanks, 2/17, as my Irish ancestors came over here on a boat that didn’t go through Ellis Island. I suspect they had no visas from the USA, either. But then that was circa 1760.
Is that a Republican threatening to use BIG GOVERNMENT against States.
States that send more money to the Federal coffers than they get back in return.
If that’s the case, they’ll do just fine when the Feds cut funding. Right?
As long as they get to keep their money.
They’ll just have to spend their own money on their own programs, and I’m absolutely fine with that.
‘Cause now it’s not MY money, and they’ll have to defend the expenditures to their constituents.
Senior Chief appears to be that rare NCO who advances through the ranks without learning much through the many life lessons of that career path that tend to make the huge majority of his fellow NCO’s lean conservative.
Fair enough…just weigh his comments with that thought in mind.
I’m just trying to get my mind around the image of a liberal on a bulldozer.
Well maybe I am just stronger willed then you and do not resort to the base mentality of I have mine fuck everybody else.
I advanced through hard work, dedication to duty, and top notch professionalism.
Should we weight your comments because of your penchant for wild assumptions and total lack of facts on my career progression.
Well get the fuck of my Construction site I have work to do, and I cannot have some Army bubby with his dick in his hands standing in my way.
Live by the Federal bribe, die by the Federal bribe.
I rather enjoy the irony that the Progressive habit of withholding funds to enforce compliance is now being used against Progressives. Give it to ’em good & hard.
For the past eight years Progressives have supported every single stunt Obama pulled, no matter how questionable. They apparently forgot that he was also setting a precedent.
More than a few folks have predicted a sudden new respect for the rule of law, separation of powers, and the text of the Constitution from Democrats now that Trump is in office.
Looks like they’re right.
Trump now has a pen and a phone. It will be entertaining to watch the next few years.
Yes it will. I just wish he’d start using more ink and a friggin’ auto dialer. Git’r done!
The best answer to this dilemma as I see it is to kill the mass funding and pay by the head. With the gazillions that will be saved, ICE can expand beyond even its wildest imaginings and pour armed agents into border security, with or without the states’ blessings.
Here we get further proof that ADULTS are once again in charge, hallelujah!
MYC is discussing ejecting IDE agents from court buildings. You see, when a defendant arrives and is an illegal, ICE is there to do ICE’s thing.
The more that liberal locales get held accountable to being in compliance with the Law, the crazier they get, I wonder what juvenile antics we’ll see them try to pull next?
MYC? NYC. At least this time the letters were next to each other on the keyboard. When a Q appears where an L should be, I really gets to wondering.
2/17 AC,
1) Everyone makes typos.
2) Nobody cares.
3) If you’re completely anal like me, type your post onto a word doc, then copy & paste.
4) I still make typos.
5) See note 2.
*grin*
William Safire cared, but he’s dead. Perry cares, and he’s not dead. Sr. Mary Rose cares and she will never die.
I don’t understand why so many of these typos end up in final comments. Every browser I’m familiar with has a built-in spell checker which flags words as you type.
…Unless people are using their phones to comment…
Having a little red line under a typo does not guarantee someone will SEE said little red line. And if the typo happens to spell a legit wound (vs. word) the spell checker will not even do that much.
It is somewhat disconcerting when you think you entered ‘omnipotent’ and the result after you click ‘enter’ turns into ‘impotent’.
Casey,
If I were to use my phone to comment, the thing is programmed so that it autocorrupts everything it thinks is a typo.
This can make for some embarrassing posts as well.
And the spell check is only as good as the dictionary. In certain esoteric contexts, the dictionary has no clue what we are saying.
Now whether the CIA and your ISP know what you are saying is another question.
California’s population in 1980 was somewhere around 80 percent white. It’s now roughly 41 percent white, and 43 percent Latino. Given the current trend, it wouldn’t be a surprise if 80 percent of the state’s population was Latino by 2080. Mexicans also comprise five times more than any other immigrant group. How has that whole immigration and diversity thing worked out in Mexico itself?
Illegal immigration is about open borders, and is a threat to national sovereignty. Politicians in California who support it aren’t doing so as a matter of what’s best for the future of the state. They’re doing it because they’re Democrats and more illegal immigration means more votes for them. In their view, that’s all that matters– even if it means using an isidious form of sedition.
Normally, I tend to be very leery of federal overreach, but the issue of border control justifiably falls withing the scope of federal responsibility. A public official such as Kevin de Leon who wants to turn California into a sanctuary state should be playing drop-the-soap with former official Leland Yee.
For what it’s worth, I happen to live in California, and have no plans to leave. To pack it in would be to let the motherfuckers win.
Perry, the California Democrats are as right about Latino immigration as they are about their public service pension plans, both of which could have been schemed up by Wile E. Coyote.
In California’s case, the Roadrunner is nothing more than that diamond-hard bitch, Reality.
Where the fuck is Lars?
SSSSSSSHHHHHHhhhhhhh. . . I’m enjoying the peace and quiet. It’s about time for Lars to wake up, though, so I’m off to bed. I’ll let y’all hold down the fort on the night watch.
0530 and no sign of it he pest. Man I’m bored!
Maybe he found himself a new home over at the Daily KKKos… he shares the same mindset as MarKKKos and the KKKossaKKKs
I couldn’t care less myself, I enjoy the absence of him.
The forgot the one place that started it all TUCSON, ARIZONA…
I’ll find a link to a story from our leftist Police chief here, it’s a great laugh
I was very sorry to see my former home stat of Colorado as one of these sanctuary shit holes. It must be all the whacky backy they are smokin? At lease most of Florida is not on board with that bullshit!
http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-california-s-chief-justice-warns-rule-1490657780-htmlstory.html
And the California Chief Justice says he ‘rule of law’ is under attack because federal authorities are – enforcing the law. I am guessing her Constitutional Law class was conducted by Barack Obama, because she obviously learned nothing.
If you’ve seen any reports on what Kamala Harris, D-Idiocy, has said lately, it certainly appears that those two divots in the fairway of life went to the same law school. Neither has two functioning brain cells.
“those two divots in the fairway of life”
Nice one.
I am sincerely surprised that the feds are only offering to remove the funds from these lawbreakers. If it were me I’d have them perp walked for interfering with justice. I know if I tried it that’s where I’d be.
Sheriff of Bristol County in Taxachussetts said exactly the same thing.
Of course, being Democrat elected officials, nothing will happen to them. Thee and me – that, as you say, is a different story.
The threat of withholding $$ does sound good, and will work well with some folks, but wouldn’t criminally charging those who make the rule be even more effective? Apparently that is also part of the current law in cases where individuals released commit serious crimes. Life in prison does seem fair for those who release anyone who kills, commits robbery, and other stuff like drunk driving resulting in death.
Shielding an illegal alien from detection is a crime and it comes with a stiff penalty. There are a number of other crimes related to various facets of illegalhood(Hey.) but they nearly all require knowledge that the alien is illegal and that you are aiding him. That’s why the states with sanctuary cities have a policy of not asking certain questions. They might receive a truthful answer and potentially be in legal difficulty.