BOOM: ICE Throws Down the Gauntlet, Arresting Two Illegal Aliens in a California Courthouse
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer looks on during an operation in Escondido, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
An addendum to the San Diego Sheriff’s post, mentioned were ICE agents reportedly arrested two people at a Northern California courthouse, ignoring a recently introduced state law barring immigration agents from making arrests at such facilities.
Oops.
Poetrooper sends us the link to the article.
BY RICK MORAN
ICE agents arrested two illegal aliens in a courthouse in Northern California, defying a state law that says they needed a warrant from a judge to do so.
ICE flouted a new state law that requires the warrant before arresting an illegal on courthouse grounds. After the predictable outcry from courthouse officials and others, ICE calmly gave their rationale.
Los Angeles Times:
ICE said in a statement that California’s law doesn’t supersede federal law and “will not govern the conduct of federal officers acting pursuant to duly enacted laws passed by Congress that provide the authority to make administrative arrests of removable aliens inside the United States.”
“Our officers will not have their hands tied by sanctuary rules when enforcing immigration laws to remove criminal aliens from our communities,” David Jennings, ICE’s field office director in San Francisco, said in the statement.
In other words, ICE is telling critics to go piss up a rope.
ICE’s actions follow the deployment of Customs and Border Patrol agents to sanctuary cities and states. The state government of California bitterly criticized that move, but find themselves unable to do anything to prevent it. The Department of Homeland Security, the agency under which ICE and CBP operate, can send its personnel anywhere they see fit to send them.
Again critics of the arrests dragged out the usual trope: illegals will now hesitate before helping the police or participating in the legal system. While untrue as mentioned in the Sheriff Gore post, why would people tolerate these criminals in their neighborhoods? Read the entire article here: PJ Media
Thanks, Poe!
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Good for them. If California doesn’t want to abide by the laws of these United States, they can try to secede. Didn’t work so well for the states that tried that before, but California isn’t one to let a little knowledge of history interfere with plans for the future.
Note the use of the word “flout” in the piece. Are they likely to use flout when referring to the “sanctuary” jurisdictions who ignore US law? Didn’t Arizona get its pee-pee whacked by SCotUS a few years ago, based on the interpretation of the Constitution bein’ that immigration was the sole responsibility of the Federal government?
effing politicians don’t want their voters arrested is what this is all about. They say they can’t go door to door to pick up illegals, but can go door to door to confiscate a coupla hundred million firearms?
While we are arresting and deporting illegals why don’t we arrest and deport some domestic traitorous enemies of our Republic?
“effing politicians don’t want their voters arrested is what this is all about.”
IMHO it’s all about the D-rats being able to buy Illegal Alien Votes with our tax dollars!
Non US citizens can’t vote in federal and state elections California.
They can in school board elections in the city of San Francisco.
School board elections are not driving these policies.
So you’re claiming that illegal aliens don’t vote at all in California? Tell me more about how the Lunar Landings were faked and Pro Wrestling is for real…
Trump’s own investigative panel that tried to prove illegal immigrants voted in a California came up with nothing.
That’s blatantly false. The investigative task force was stonewalled by the state governments that didn’t produce the data requested/required. Don’t know why, but they just gave up. Probably because anyone who has voted in the US can see the obvious and myriad flaws in our system that will allow pretty much anyone that wants to to vote.
Being that I live ( and vote) in California I can tell you there is absolutely no desire for them to check to see who is voting illegally.
You can register to vote when you get your Drivers Licence or Ca ID simply by checking a box saying you are a citizen.. they even conveniently print the form in several languages.
My wife ( who is not a US citizen) gets bombarded every year asking her to register. All she would have to do is lie on the form and send it back.
Google Bob Dornan, 46th Congressional District, 1996.
Now STFD and STFU.
Wrong answer dude. The motor voter law is specifically intended to allow wetbacks to register when getting a drivers license, which they also should not have. Last year almost a half million people refused jury duty by saying they were not citizens, and California gets their jury pool from voter rolls.
This could be really interesting since the 9th Circuit has a few new members that are more supportive of the Constitution – and it’s a sure bet that California will file an appeal that will go to them for a hearing. They might just find themselves in a cold dark place all of a sudden (and I don’t mean ICE)!
It’s been said that President Trump has successfully flipped the Ninth Circuit and that alone is more than enough to make legions of liberal heads explode because the Ninth Circuit has been where they went for decades to shop for the decision they want!
Was actually just looking at the makeup of the 9th Circus yesterday. Trump’s got ten active judges now to Zero’s six. Clinton’s still got nine active with six in senior status. GW has three active, four senior. Amazingly, Nixon still has two judges there (both in senior status obviously). Carter’s got four, Reagan three, and GHW Bush two each in senior status.
Crazy to think that there are judges hearing cases who were nominated by fucking Nixon almost 50 years ago. With Trump putting a lot of young people on the bench, he’ll be felt for at least that long.
Peaceful separation may be in the future as it seems ‘what we have here is a failure to communicate’.
Now if the citizens of California would like to throw off the yoke of oppression may I suggest finding a tea ship in the SF harbor, dressing up like Indians and having at ‘er.
A little revolution from time-to-time is a good thing.
California is truly becoming more and more deluded and idiotic everyday.
I similarly laugh when people talk about state governor’s being in my chain of command as if that’s the case. “Sorry buddy, but I don’t give a shit about what a governor says, I’m US Army, not National Guard.” Mwahahahahaha
Why wait for California to secede?
Cut off all federal aid and let them go.
They will be back before suppertime, hungry.
California contributes more to the federal budget than they get back in all federal spending.
So if California seceded it would be California cutting of aid to the emerald government and all the more than a dozen third world red states that take more than they contribute.
California is the 1/6th of the US GDP while only 1/8th of the US population.
In time California would prosper and the US would be hit with a massive belt tightening.
Not “emerald”. That was supposed to be “federal”.
It was another malapropism.
If you say so, Dogberry…
California is 14th on the list of 14 states that get back less than they pay in, 13 other states get back less per capita than California does..ranked in order they are as follows according to Atlantic Magazine.
Delaware
Minnesota
Illinois
Nebraska
Ohio
Kansas
New York
Colorado
Utah
New Jersey
Oklahoma
Wyoming
Massachusetts
California
And most of the states on your list are Blue states.
It’s a pretty straight split if you use the last election. I wouldn’t go reading into it (like you are) that blue states are better contributors to the fed.
Blue:
DE, MN, IL, NY, CO, NJ, MA, CA
Red:
NE, OH, KS, UT, OK, WY
And why is it states get back more than they pay in? Think carefully, Lars.
You really need to stop telling this lie. California can’t afford itself, let alone contribute to anything. California can never prosper with millions suckling at their welfare state teats.
The facts are indisputable.
California contributes more to the federal government than it receives in federal spending.
California is running a budget surplus and using it to pay back the debt created by the last Republican governor.
Some more of your empirical data that you stupidly believe seagull?
‘splain this Lucy. Oh and btw phuque off.
http://www.newgeography.com/content/006159-california-doesn-t-have-a-budget-surplus
He wacks off to his “empirical data” every chance he gets…
You keep drinking that blue Kool-Aid, Lars, keep sucking it in until you choke on it at some future date when all those unfunded pension liabilities come pouring out the spout. As Dylan sang, “You don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” but it does help to have a basic grasp of elementary math.
You might want to ponder why they’re always looking for reasons to raise your taxes when they’re running all these wonderful surpluses.
California can’t even keep the power on.
By their own in-house projections they have trillions in unfunded pension liabilities, plus, they have some of the worst transportation infrastructure problems in the nation, but no, this tool thinks everything is just peachy because the Democrat propaganda machine tells him it is.
I used to credit Lars with some basic thinking skills, but more and more he shows me he’s nothing but a dogmatic ideologue, just another useful idiot for the left, willing to sacrifice his self-respect on the altar of political correctness.
Then why is California always begging for federal assistance? Wildfires every year, that dam that almost burst a couple years back.
It’s all fun and games until those “third world red states” cut off the water supply to Southern California.
Which red state provides water to California?
Every state the Colorado flows through.
Colorado.. via this little stream known as the COLORADO River…
Just a thought here:
If Trump truly was the dictator, bully, and racist so many on the left wanted him to be, why hasn’t he done what previous presidents done and just cut off all (or substantial portions of) federal government dollars?
You feeling groggy, Gavin? Hop on the lily pad, bitch!
So are we back to enjoying over arching federal government tactics today?
Most days I look at what the Feds are doing and I don’t see a whole lot of effort put into actual meaningful programs designed to make life better I simply see another administrative action designed to reinforce the notion that the Federal Government is in complete and total control whether anyone likes it or not.
If this were a second amendment consideration I wonder if we would all be so happy to see Federal intervention against state wishes….I suspect not.
I realize that the second amendment is a constitutional right as opposed to federal immigration law, but ICE grabbing people in courtrooms? What’s next the DEA arresting recreational dispensary owners against state wishes?
The Feds thinking they always know what’s best for local LEOs is a large part of the problem with cooperation on a variety of things well beyond immigration.
If your state has a large non-criminal illegal population (Reagan and Bush both tried to offer paths to citizenship for those in that situation), how does this help utilize that population to combat local gang problems? If testifying against a gang means being deported by ICE while you attend court…guess who’s no longer going to help local LEOs fight gang intrusions?
This nonsensical showboating solves nothing long term. It’s a reality TV move designed to get the base excited, because it works for that end. It doesn’t matter if it’s doing anything at all useful in the larger picture.
VOV, I rather suspect that “ICE grabbing people in courtrooms” was a carefully planned demonstration of the Trump Administration’s intent to put and end to this state sanctuary business as regards illegal immigration.
In the case of the 2d Amendment sanctuary movement, it is not self-serving, Democrat-controlled state governments seeking to evade Congressionally-promulgated federal statutes for political gain, but the citizenry within such states seeking to preserve a Constitutionally-imposed prohibition against these states’ interference with their citizens’ keeping and bearing of firearms.
These are not just different issues–they are two vastly different issues.
Grabbing dispensary owners would not be an entirely different issue though as I did note the 2nd amendment issue was not quite the same at all.
Federal DEA agents could arrest a dispensary owner using the ICE tactics as well, and for me that would be just as wrong as this is.
Setting the Feds against locals is simply bad policy, what was gained by this? Does anyone think that California is suddenly afraid of the Trump administration?
All this did was to make sure that local LEOs won’t get any cooperation with local illegal crime issues now, to the detriment of all their citizens.
I’m not at all a fan of illegal immigration, but I was never a fan of Federal Government displays of power simply for the purpose of display.
“Setting the Feds against locals is simply bad policy, what was gained by this?”
Most likely? I’d venture a legal challenge by California which will first be appealed to Trump’s remodeled Ninth Circuit by whichever side loses in federal district court, then to Trump’s remodeled Supreme Court by whichever side loses in the Ninth.
Starting to see a plan come together here?
CA (and every other blue state) is scared shitless of the Trump administration.
NO, what we are up to is Federal agents enforcing Federal law as they are supposed to, in the face of criminal behavior on the part of the state of California. And the illegals are not doing a thing to aid law enforcement. In just about every case, they are there as criminal defendants. It isn’t really complicated. I don’t really care why they are here, or what they are doing in the court, I want them GONE. They should not be here, they don’t belong here, and they can go back where they came from and DO IT RIGHT.
California City Bucks Up to Trump..
LA ” We we tell our Police Departments To stop Federal Agents from Arresting people on ICE warrants.
Trump: I’ll see your LAPD and raise you the 1st Marine Division..
LOL LOL LOL
Won’t even need the Marines. The federals will simply arrest anyone interfering and charge them with Federal obstruction of justice. They have always had that option.
Unfortunately there are about 20 Marines (soon to be ex-Marines) out of Pendleton who thumbed their noses at our immigration laws too.