Posted on 03/30/2017 9:45:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When it comes to President Donald Trump’s threats and executive order to cut federal funding off to so-called “sanctuary cities,” a City Council committee Thursday requested a proactive plan on how to “hit back” with legal action should the order be executed on Los Angeles.
“We are on the defensive so much of the time,” said Councilwoman Nury Martinez at a meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee on Immigrant Affairs before requesting the city attorney’s office report back “on how you are going to protect our city and our interests in case the federal government comes after us.”
Councilman David Ryu agreed.
“We have to be prepared and that’s when we hit back, so I think we have to do some sort of preparation, some proactive preparation,” Ryu said.
The committee requested that the city attorney report back with a plan within two weeks after hearing a report from a representative with the office of the chief legislative analyst on if Los Angeles could be labeled a sanctuary city.
Analyst Felipe Chavez said “it is hard to say” if the term applies to Los Angeles, although a specific law cited in Trump’s order indicated it could.
Chavez said there is no legal term for “sanctuary city,” but it is closely associated with local law enforcement agencies that do not cooperate with federal immigration authorities or limit their cooperation.
While Los Angeles has never officially declared itself a sanctuary city, it has a number of practices that likely make it the term relevant, including that it does not cooperate with Title 8, Section 1373 of federal law which prohibits state and local jurisdictions from restricting communication with federal immigration authorities concerning immigrants in the country illegally.
Trump’s order, which was issued in January, specifically mentions 1373 and threatens to cut funds to jurisdictions that do not comply with it.
Chavez said the law prohibits the enactments of local policies prohibiting the exchange of the information, but does not require local agencies to exchange the information, and that the California attorney general and various courts have ruled cooperating with the law is voluntary.
The city has other policies that put it at odds with the federal government’s immigration policies, Chavez said, including the policy of the police department to not comply with any federal immigration detainers unless it is accompanied with a warrant, and Special Order 40, which states officers will not initiate police action solely to determine an individual’s immigration status.
After hearing the report, Councilman Jose Huizar said the practices of the city appear to fall within the definition of a sanctuary city.
Is LA a net positive Fed cash flow geography?
Send him a case of tainted tamales.
They may try something like what Turkey did to the EU: bring in very large numbers of illegals to LA, then push them out into neighboring states.
When the rest of the country takes off under Trump’s economic plan, CA will be left behind. They can only raise the gas tax & DMV fees so high, before the collapse comes.
With 49 other states more friendly to businesses, nobody is going to want to continue to be here & certainly no new business will come.
***Weaponized Government ALERT***
“Is LA a net positive Fed cash flow geography?”
If they are, and I’ve heard a bunch of leftist from California say they are then great. They’ve just made the argument for less Federal Government.
If they are so rich that that pay more in taxes than they get back (Psst. let me tell you a secret - everybody pays more than they get back because the government has overhead) then, to use the leftist logic of “From each according to his ability to pay to each according to his needs”, any money that California gets from the Feds is money they stole from Mississippi.
They are both making the case for smaller government and revealing themselves to be hypocrites of the worst kind - All in one statement
I say cut off all of their stolen water from outside their sustainable watershed. Do they believe in Science or not?
Tell you what, L.A. scumbag officials, we have millions of volunteers who are going to help ICE do their job. Self deport or be evicted.
In NY, Cuomo lets all the refugees in, then sends them to the rest of the state. Downstate takes very few. His father released all the inmates from the nut houses in NY State when he was Governor. Then turned the psych centers into prisons. That's why we ended up with such a large number of mentally ill inmates in the prison system.
They will get a liberal a-hole judge to say defunding sanctuary cities is “unconstitutional”
I hope I am wrong. But I doubt it.
What will LA do? Send him a strongly-worded letter written in Spanish?
Cut their water.
Send in troops, kick the doors to city hall down and drag off the SOBs in chains, never to be seen again for the duration.
It’ll happen.
The law, as I understand it, is that the federal government can attach strings to federal funds to the cities, states and counties as long as those conditions were attached from the beginning. They can’t just arbitrarily decide to pull funds.
And the statute has been there all along, making it unlawful to harbor illegal aliens.
All of that said, we know from bitter experience that libtard judges don’t allow the actual law to enter into their decision making process.
Now doubt. It deosn't matter to them how ridiculous their logic is. IMO They are going to use judges to stop everything Trump does from here on out. It wouldn't surprise me if they declared tax cuts unconstitutional by the end of it all. I sure hope Gorsuch is the right guy (and we can get him in there) A lot is riding on it.
At some point can’t the Federal system jail some in California or elsewhere with obstruction.
Judges can be arrested, tried, and convicted for crimes just like any other citizen.
Let’s see if the AG and President have the courage to do it, and free the People from being held hostage by the black-robed tyrants.
I would also add that if they were to arrest, try, and convict these judges, the ignorant and corrupt Congressmen would no doubt proceed with impeachment charges, even though the President committed no crime.
No doubt DJT and Bannon, etc. know this.
Maybe we should engage in open mockery of the judges, or something of that sort. Their arrogant nature would no doubt be triggered.
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