We’re on the same side, we just differ in tactics. It is not as American Citizen qua American Citizen that we suffer from the influx of illegal aliens, it is as residents of Los Angeles, Chicago or Newark to name three cities which, along with their respective counties, have more law enforcement officers than does the entire ICE.
While the Supreme Court could rule tomorrow that no city can refuse to work with the ICE (”sanctuary cities”) in practice, it is up to the local. county and State police to WANT to work with ICE.
That’s my only point. Cities like San Francisco (unfortunately my city) won’t do anything that the Feds or SCOTUS require simply because of BDS.
“We’re on the same side, we just differ in tactics.”
Oh I know we are on the same side. And I am not trying to just be contentious. Tactics matter. If the repercussions of tactics didn’t matter then we should all just become liberals where the constitution is a “living thing” and where we are a country of men instead of a country of laws. But we are cons. We should understand that public passions are what the framers were most afraid of. They built a constitution that divided powers between the executive, legislative and judicial branches and between fed and states govts. As I’ve said before I love it when states help the fed do its bidding when it comes to immigration but I don’t like it when the states take over that responsibility. Nowhere in the constitution does it give the states the prerogative over immigration. As far as the fed forcing the states to do what it wants them to do, you have two choices. One, withold federal money. Or two, well does enforcing the civil rights acts in the south during the 60s ring a bell?