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Showing posts with label sanctuary state. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 18, 2019

Here Comes The Bus!!

Political Cartoons by Mike Lester
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Thursday, May 17, 2018

Oakland Mayor May Be In Big Kimchee

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf is pictured. | AP Photo
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf warned her constituents of an impending federal raid that targeted more than 1,100 undocumented immigrants. | Ben Margot/AP Photo

Trump asks Sessions to consider prosecuting Oakland mayor over ICE raid

President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged Attorney General Jeff Sessions to consider prosecuting the mayor of Oakland, California, whom he has accused of thwarting federal immigration laws, on an obstruction of justice charge. Mayor Libby Schaaf warned her constituents in February of an impending federal raid that targeted more than 1,100 undocumented immigrants but resulted in the arrests of only about 200.
“I mean, you talk about obstruction of justice, I would recommend that you look into obstruction of justice for the mayor of Oakland, California, Jeff,” Trump said, gesturing toward Sessions. The attorney general did not respond, and sat expressionless as the president made his comments.
Trump’s remarks came during a White House roundtable discussion with close to 20 California elected officials and law enforcement officers who favor tougher immigration enforcement standards in their state and have all taken stands against the California Values Act, otherwise known as the “sanctuary state” law.
Sessions, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, the acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Thomas Homan, and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) were among the federal officials in attendance at the meeting.
“She informed them, and they all fled — or most of them fled — and that whole operation, that took a long time to put together,” Trump said. “To me, that’s obstruction of justice. And perhaps the Department of Justice can look into that, with respect to the mayor. Because it’s a big deal out there, and a lot of people are very angry about what happened. There was a lot of hard work and a lot of danger involved. And that was a terrible thing.”
Trump has previously accused Schaaf of obstructing justice by interfering with the raid, but Wednesday marked the first time he directly implored the nation’s top law enforcement official to contemplate legal action against the mayor.
The Democratic Oakland mayor said in February she intended to quell rising panic and help “law-abiding” immigrant communities in her town who were hearing rumors of such impending ICE raids in their communities. An ICE spokesman in the region resigned his post in the aftermath of the event, citing what he called fabrications about the events surrounding Schaaf by Homan.
Schaaf didn’t respond directly to Trump, but said on Twitter Tuesday she was working with homeless groups, adding: #NotDistracted #NotObstructing #DoingMyJob.
California Gov. Jerry Brown responded in advance of the president’s meeting with the California leaders, saying via Twitter: “Trump is lying on immigration, lying about crime and lying about the laws of California. Flying in a dozen Republican politicians to flatter him and praise his reckless policies changes nothing. We, the citizens of the fifth largest economy in the world, are not impressed.”
The local officials in the White House session uniformly showered praise on the president, calling him a champion of immigration enforcement, while offering sharp critiques of SB54, the measure which has become known as the “sanctuary state” law.
The law’s author, state Sen. Kevin de Leon, held his own forum in Los Angeles Wednesday to counter the Trump effort, which he said involved a “cherry-picked” crowd of Trump supporters and involved no immigrant communities affected by the law. De Leon, who is running for Senate against Sen. Dianne Feinstein, has said the president continues to spread misinformation about SB54, which he said was never aimed to shield criminals but to instead allow immigrant communities to feel safer in reporting crimes to law enforcement.
Still, Trump called California home to “the dumbest immigration laws on the planet, and at one point motioned to McCarthy, saying of the House GOP leader, “He can take care of it.” The president repeated his long-standing campaign mantra to build the border wall, and vowed to defeat the sanctuary city movement in California, calling it a threat to public safety.
Sessions did not respond directly to the president’s directive on Schaaf, but told the group that on the issue of immigration enforcement, Trump "made clear to all of us what we have to do better. We are going to do better." He called on Congress to come up with a bill which allows ICE and border security officers to do their job, and added: "If we all get behind our leader, well get something done this year that is historic.”
The forum provided a national platform for several California Republican officials, among them San Diego Supervisor Kristin Gaspar, who is running for the House seat to fill the vacancy of retiring GOP Rep. Darrell Issa. Gaspar told Trump that the meeting attendees represented “what Gov. Brown classifies as low-life politicians,’’ she said, adding defiantly, “well, here we are.”
She claimed she had compiled a stack of 3,000 emails from constituents in her district supporting Trump, and a “tiny little stack” of less than 50 opposed to his policies.
Gaspar also told Trump she brought along a photo of a young man “gunned down by an illegal immigrant,’’ saying that under the current state laws, “we’ve created a situation where Gov. Brown makes San Diego a great place to commit a crime because you have options.”
Criminals can flee across the border to Mexico, or “you have the option of staying put, shielded by Gov. Moonbeam,’’ she said.
Trump responded with scathing words for Mexico, saying: “Mexico does nothing for us. They do nothing for us. Mexico talks but they do nothing for us, especially at the border... they do nothing on trade, but especially at the border.”
Mayor Pro Tem Warren Kusumoto of Los Alamitos, the first city to rebel against the sanctuary city law, told Trump that the movement has taken hold in conservative bastions because “the citizens of our state, and our city, feel that they have less rights than the entitled illegal aliens.”
Homan said that he believed it was “backwards" that California doesn't want to build a wall to keep illegal immigrants out and instead wants to keep them in. He told the president: "I've worked for six presidents, and I respect them all, but no president has done more than you" for border security.
Trump appeared to bask in the glow of the praise from the assembled officials, vowing to help them in their fight against the sanctuary city laws. “We are, step by step, bringing it back ... we will not fail,’’ he said.
And the president added, “I had a lot more support in California than the people understand ... Check the voting records.”
The final tally compiled by the California Secretary of State showed Trump was trounced in the state, receiving 32 percent of the vote in 2016 or 4.4 million votes, compared with 62 percent or 8.7 million votes for Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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Friday, March 16, 2018

Blacks Must Control Their Destiny. Will They?

California now a “sanctuary state” thanks to Gov. Jerry Brown & liberal Democrats in Sacramento

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WHISTLEBLOWER MAGAZINE
February 2018
And… as a ‘SANCTUARY’ FOR ILLEGALS BECOMES BLACKS’ WORST NIGHTMARE’
Reveals state-wide war brewing over health care, education and other services
By Jesse Lee Peterson
The Golden State is home to an estimated 2.3 million illegal aliens. And police are no longer permitted to ask suspects about their immigration status or assist with federal immigration-enforcement activities.

Yes, California voters are dumb for voting in liberal Democrats who continue to pass laws that endanger citizens. For black Americans who might not understand this – you too will be impacted! Now that California has been designated a “sanctuary state,” illegal aliens, including MS-13, will flock to the state in droves and they’ll end up in the black community.
For the past 27 years, my nonprofit organization, BOND, has been trying to educate blacks on this issue with town hall forums, media, rallies, etc. Along with groups like FAIR, California Coalition for Immigration Reform and the late Terry Anderson, we’ve been warning the state and the nation of what was coming, but most blacks refused to listen.
We couldn’t get blacks to support a border wall or to vote against liberal Democrats who are selling them out for the Hispanic vote. Most blacks are so brainwashed by their godless black leaders, they’re willing to vote against their own self-interest.
They blindly follow corrupt Democrats like Barack Obama, Maxine Waters, Karen Bass, Kamala Harris, Mark Ridley-Thomas and others who use them. All Democrats have to do is accuse anyone who opposes illegal immigration of being “racist,” and that’s enough to put blacks in a hypnotic trance and make them vote for Democrats.
The illegal immigration issue is out of control. The Hispanic population is growing rapidly, and it’s flexing its political muscle. There’s a warfare brewing between black and Hispanic gangs in Los Angeles, and it’s just a matter of time before it explodes. As a result, decent blacks are fleeing California and moving down south.
Illegal aliens are draining California taxpayers. According to Fox News, Los Angeles County taxpayers paid a whopping $1.3 billion in just two years for illegal-alien benefits and programs – nearly a quarter of the amount spent on the state’s needy population.
Over the past 60 years, the black community traded in values and principles for welfare and programs. As a result, most blacks rely on government assistance. Blacks are fighting with illegals in Los Angeles for health care, public education and other services.
I know many qualified blacks who’ve applied for all types of jobs in Los Angeles County and weren’t hired because they don’t speak Spanish; blacks are upset about this. If blacks stood up and demanded that their elected officials do something about this issue, the problem could be solved. But they’re so angry and preoccupied with blaming the white man, they can’t see that they’re voting for their own self-destruction.
The NAACP has completely sold out blacks. It supports amnesty, and it has allowed illegals to hitch their plight to the civil-rights struggle of blacks. The shameless NAACP is also pushing the insidious lie that increased immigration is helpful to the black community.
Members of the corrupt Congressional Black Caucus unanimously support amnesty for Hispanics and for the more than 3 million immigrants of African descent.
Except for a handful of black conservatives like myself, Sheriff David Clarke, Larry Elder, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell and Peter Kirsanow, there aren’t any black voices boldly speaking out about the devastating impact illegal immigration is having on black Americans.
Democrats are giving out all kinds of taxpayer funded goodies to seduce Hispanics and addict them, just like they did to blacks. They’re brainwashing, spoiling and dumbing them down to use them for votes. There are some decent Hispanics who don’t agree with rewarding illegals, but they’re too afraid to speak out.
And now that California has legalized the sale of recreational marijuana, the state will attract more criminals and the worst kind of people. What a shame!
President Trump and Congress are deliberating the future of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. Trump has reiterated that he wants to work with Democrats to find a permanent legislative solution to allow those protected by DACA to stay in the country, but only if it comes with a long-promised border wall and major changes to the immigration system.
Blacks need an advocate on this issue, and they have a friend in President Trump. But if they don’t wake up and stand for what is right, they will be permanently replaced.
For blacks to free themselves from this nightmare, they must first turn back to God and love Him with all their soul and might. Second, they must abandon group thinking and the Democratic Party. If they do this, we can make America great again overnight.
(Jesse Lee Peterson – host of “The Fallen State” TV show on WND-TV – is the most courageous, outspoken critic of the “civil rights” establishment in America today. Raised without his father on a plantation near Tuskegee, Alabama, during the Jim Crow era, Peterson has lived a part of America’s history few have experienced.)
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018

California Is In A Pickle And Needs To Select The Brine It Is To Use


Trump administration sues California over laws protecting immigrants


Evan Halper
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MAR 06, 2018 | 6:45 PM
| WASHINGTON
   

Trump administration sues California over laws protecting immigrants
Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions plans to speak to the California Peace Officers Assn. on Wednesday to announce a challenge to California policies on immigration enforcement. (Susan Walsh / Associated Press)
 
The Trump administration, seeking to force a defiant California to cooperate with its agenda of stepped-up immigrant deportations, went to federal court Tuesday to invalidate three state laws — the administration's most direct challenge yet to the state's policies.
Administration officials say the three laws in question, all passed by the Legislature last year, blatantly obstruct federal immigration law and thus violate the Constitution's supremacy clause, which gives federal law precedence over state enactments.
"The Department of Justice and the Trump administration are going to fight these unjust, unfair, and unconstitutional policies that are imposed on you," Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions plans to tell a meeting of the California Peace Officers Assn. in Sacramento on Wednesday, according to excerpts of his remarks released by the Justice Department.
"We are fighting to make your jobs safer and to help you reduce crime in America. And I believe that we are going to win."

The laws make it a crime for business owners to voluntarily help federal agents find and detain undocumented workers, prohibit local law enforcement from alerting immigration agents when detainees are released from custody, and create a state inspection program for federal immigration detention centers.
Administration officials, who briefed reporters before the suit was filed, said other states that are pursuing laws similar to California's are also likely to be targeted in court.
The suit, which administration lawyers filed late Tuesday in federal court in Sacramento, considerably raises the tension between the administration and the most populous state in the country. California officials consistently have sought to stymie Trump's efforts to impose policies incompatible with the more permissive vision of the state's leaders and the liberal leanings of its electorate.
Many state and local officials in California say the administration's stepped-up deportation efforts are making communities less safe and undermining local economies.
The case will test the power of the Trump administration to force California police departments and local governments to cooperate with deportations and other aggressive enforcement actions targeting people who entered the country illegally or overstayed their visas. It reflects the administration's limited tolerance for state's rights when states want to go in a sharply different direction than the administration.
In a statement, Gov. Jerry Brown called the federal suit a "stunt."
"At a time of unprecedented political turmoil, Jeff Sessions has come to California to further divide and polarize America," he said. "Jeff, these political stunts may be the norm in Washington, but they don't work here. SAD!!!"
California officials were preparing for the suit even before it was filed. After the Justice Department announced Sessions would be making a major announcement in Sacramento, state leaders expressed confidence that Washington's legal attacks would fail.
"We'll see what the courts say," said Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, a former legislative leader.
"So far the administration's record there is not stellar," he said, referring to the administration's repeated losses in court. "We didn't pass these laws to protect people with serious criminal backgrounds. We are protecting our communities from immigration agents intimidating people and overreaching in very serious ways."
State Senate leader Kevin de León struck a similar note: "If U.S. Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions is suing California because we refuse to help the Trump administration tear apart honest, hardworking families, I say bring it on. Based on the U.S. Department of Justice's track record in court, I like our odds," he said.
The administration, however, could be in a stronger position in this case than in previous court battles over immigration issues, including court rulings against early versions of Trump's travel ban and against efforts to cut off some federal money to cities with so-called sanctuary policies.
In many other cases, the administration has been trying to swiftly unravel or reshape well-established environmental, workplace or immigration regulations that were grounded in years of case law or voluminous administrative proceedings. In this case, it is California that is arguably in uncharted legal territory, imposing barriers aimed at undermining federal law enforcement efforts.
Administration officials charge that the state measures not only hinder their ability to carry out federal law, but also put immigration agents and communities at risk.
The suit includes a declaration from Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan, who said that the inability of ICE officers to go to local lockups to pick up immigrants who have been detained by local police agencies forces them to hunt down suspects in more dangerous settings.
SB 54, one of the three challenged state laws, prohibits state and local police agencies from notifying federal officials in many cases when immigrants potentially subject to deportation are about to be released from custody.
When the law was under consideration in the Legislature, former Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr., who headed the Justice Department in the Obama administration and now represents the state Senate, wrote a letter defending the measure's constitutionality. The federal government has the authority to enforce its immigration laws, but doesn't have the power to draft California officials into helping, he said.
California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra said Tuesday that the state would use a similar argument to defend its law in court.
"We are doing what we believe is best to make sure the people of California are safe," he said. "We are doing nothing to intrude on the work of federal government to do immigration enforcement."
"When people feel confident to come forward to report crimes in our communities or participate in policing efforts without fear of deportation, they are more likely to cooperate with the criminal justice system. "
Justice Department officials cited several instances in recent weeks in which, they said, the new law prevented federal immigration agents from taking custody of people arrested for serious crimes.
Officials in Ventura County, for example, refused to turn over a suspect arrested for sexual abuse of a minor, they said. A request to transfer custody of a car-theft suspect was declined by Sacramento County jail officials, and Alameda County jail officials refused to turn over a convicted drug dealer arrested for felony drug possession while armed, they said.
State officials say those suspects are the exception and do not reflect those the law is designed to protect, who are primarily people jailed for low-level offenses.
California officials have been unflinching in enforcing the new laws, despite warnings from the Trump administration that they would create a confrontation.
In January, Becerra put employers on notice that they would be prosecuted if they did not follow the state's new Immigrant Worker Protection Act, AB 450, which prohibits businesses from voluntarily sharing information about workers with federal immigration agents. The law also requires that employers alert workers if their records are going to be inspected by federal officials.
Business owners who voluntarily assist with federal immigration operations will face fines of up to $10,000, Becerra warned. The Trump administration lawsuit says state officials have acknowledged that such threats are designed to frustrate immigration enforcement actions and that the law puts private businesses in an impossible situation: They are being required by the state to rebuff federal agents.
The third law under challenge, AB 103, imposes state inspections on federal detention facilities. The measure passed in response to reports of rampant mistreatment and abuse in federal detention facilities, many of which are run by private companies that act as federal contractors. Since the law took effect, the state has been conducting inspections at the facilities and demanding access to inmate documents that the administration says the state has no authority to review.
"California has chosen to purposefully contradict the will and responsibility of the Congress to protect our Homeland," Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said in a statement in which she thanked Sessions for his efforts to "uphold the rule of law and protect American communities."
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UPDATES:
6:45 p.m.: This article was updated with the filing of the federal lawsuit and reaction from Gov. Brown and state Senate president Kevin de León.
The article was originally published at 6 p.m.
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Sanctuary State, California, Being Sued By Justice Department


SEE YOU IN COURT! Trump slams liberal California

President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions just send liberals a powerful message: Law and order is coming back to the United States!
Trump is taking the fight over the nation’s immigration policy directly to California by suing to block state laws that protect illegal immigrants from the law — and history shows he has a good chance of winning.

Sessions is expected to speak to law enforcement officials in the state’s capital Wednesday, just hours after the U.S. Justice Department filed the lawsuit — the most aggressive move yet in the Trump administration’s push to force so-called sanctuary cities and states to cooperate with immigration authorities.
The U.S. Justice Department is challenging three California laws that bar police from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement activities. The suit filed in federal court in Sacramento says the laws are unconstitutional and have kept federal agents from doing their jobs.
“The Department of Justice and the Trump administration are going to fight these unjust, unfair and unconstitutional policies that have been imposed on you,” Sessions said in prepared remarks. “I believe that we are going to win.”

California liberals remained defiant, with Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown mimicking Trump on Twitter —
Brown is named in the lawsuit along with Democratic Attorney General Xavier Becerra.

The lawsuit is the latest salvo in an escalating feud between the Trump administration and California, which defiantly refuses to enforce federal laws and deport criminal illegal aliens. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has said it will increase its presence in California, and Sessions wants to cut off funding to jurisdictions that won’t cooperate.
“I say: Bring it on,” said California Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, a Los Angeles Democrat who wrote the sanctuary state bill.
The lawsuit was filed as the Justice Department also reviews Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s decision to warn of an immigration sweep in advance, which ICE said allowed hundreds of criminal illegals immigrants to escape justice.
The California laws were passed in response to Trump’s promises to sharply ramp up the deportation of illegal immigrants.

One prohibits employers from letting immigration agents enter worksites or view employee files without a subpoena or warrant, an effort to prevent workplace raids. Another stops local governments from contracting with for-profit companies and ICE to hold immigrants. Justice Department officials said that violates the Constitution’s supremacy clause, which renders invalid state laws that conflict with federal ones.
The Supreme Court reinforced the federal government’s primacy in enforcing immigration law when former President Barack Obama blocked much of Arizona’s tough 2010 immigration law on similar grounds. The high court found several key provisions undermined federal immigration law, though it upheld a provision requiring officers, while enforcing other laws, to question the immigration status of people suspected of being in the country illegally.
In this case, California “has chosen to purposefully contradict the will and responsibility of Congress to protect our homeland,” Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said in a statement.
Sessions, who has blamed sanctuary city policies for crime and gang violence, is set to speak Wednesday to groups representing police chiefs, sheriffs, district attorneys, narcotics investigators and the California Highway Patrol.

The Associated Press contributed to this article
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