Posted on 11/23/2016 2:53:25 PM PST by Stayfree
Most oaths of office contain language to uphold the Constitution and the law. If such a severe breach of that oath as to openly refuse to uphold the law is not in of itself a violation of law, it should be. At the very least it is perjury (which is lying under oath). Obama has violated his oath of office more times than he has used the word "I".....
I’m sure there is a way to do this and a Mayor/Governor or whomever either has to comply or lose their job.
I agree! As well as any County Sheriff.
Is it the mayors or the governors who are under the jurisdiction of the federal government?
I think a different technique would be in order.
An important rule of government, even local government, is that, more or less, people tend to get the government they want. So some collective punishment is in order, to convince these people of the error of their ways.
It probably won’t be anything dramatic, until they get the bill in the mail. But that will likely change a lot of attitudes, as it did with Obamacare.
Basically it means a cutoff of federal aid to these cities.
Cities get a *lot* of money directly from the federal government.
Take the sanctuary city of Tucson, AZ, for example. It gets a huge amount of money in government grants. Everything from Medicaid, student loans to its university, and almost too many other types of aid to count.
Completely cutting them off would be too traumatic, all at once, but if you turn off just one, major source of federal money they would be in a very tight bind. If they wanted to continue with whatever it is, they would have to pay for it out of their own pocket.
And, being Democrat controlled, they would immediately think of a whopping big tax increase. Who knows? Maybe the public would agree to that one. Then cut off another major funding source.
Tighten the screws until the idea of ending their sanctuary city status become a really obvious way of stopping the pain.
Governors are under the jurisdiction of the state legislature, probably with impeachment proceedings within the state. Some have recall options through the people. Any citizen violating federal law can be prosecuted by the federal authorities ( the justice dept). This is why no action, Justice dept is a joke, legislatures have no backbone, the people have no champion to lead the cause.
Indeed, all must bow before the Feds.
A protracted funding deficit is the best message in my opinion. Hard to sensationalize and rally the thugs.
County sheriffs can arrest mayors.
If anyone does it, jail. And cut off Federal Funds.
Send Hussein to jail too for ignoring Federal Law. But he probably has more chances to go to jail, pizzagate, email fraud......
Govenors and Mayors can invite foreigners into the country then protect them from the law? Why not invite them in and arm them? Same thing. The politicians should be ARRESTED AND JAILED FOR SEDITION.
I think any Federal funding deficit to sanctuary cities needs to be big enough so that citizens of the state will rebel against any possible state or city tax increases.
If Fed funding cuts are small enough then most cities/states will just keep passing on costs to fund illegals to the legal citizens who may absorb smaller tax increases but not larger ones, or many small ones (gas, property, food etc) implemented at once.
George W. Bush did the same thing. Maybe he should be prosecuted too.
Sanctuary City Movement over by April 1 when President Trump stops their funding.
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Some other issue will come along where you WANT the locals to defy Federal law, and you’ll abandon the principle. Human nature.
Tampa’s mayor (a Democrat) is thinking of making Tampa into a sanctuary city. The Democrat Party wants to have Bob Buckhorn run for Governor in 2018. Bob, if you do, kiss your political career goodbye.
Cut off ALL Feral Aid to the City retroactively to the first of the year and tell them they may re-apply in 4 years if they wish.
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