Posted on 02/26/2018 8:14:53 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In a nation where the rule of law governed public officials, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf might be subject to arrest for obstruction after she issued a warning to the city's illegal alien community that there was a pending sweep by ICE.
But we no longer live in that kind of country. Public officials can now openly, brazzenly, defy federal authorities in their efforts to enforce immigration law.
The relationship between U.S. immigration officials and California’s liberal leaders soured long ago, but Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s decision to warn potential targets of federal arrest that an immigration sweep could be imminent was an extraordinary escalation.
Schaaf said she issued the alert Saturday night after receiving confidential tips from “credible sources” who revealed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, was planning arrests across the Bay Area as soon as Sunday.
She and Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick discussed the reports before Schaaf concluded that the information was solid enough to warrant going public, according to people familiar with her thinking. Schaaf said she also conferred with legal counsel to make sure she wasn’t opening herself up to federal prosecution.
The news release that resulted — which Schaaf said was intended “not to panic our residents but to protect them” — was among the most assertive maneuvers by a local politician to counter the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants. The message: Not only will Oakland and its police force not cooperate with ICE, but the city will actively seek to thwart efforts to detain and deport immigrants.
There's obviously a loophole in the law somewhere but I'm not seeing it. .
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Arrest him for obstruction
From her wikipedia”
“Schaaf is Jewish. She lives in Oakland with her husband, Salvatore Fahey, an employee of Gatan, Inc., an electronics company in Pleasanton. They have two children, Dominic and Lena.”
A home-grown Secular Progressive Jew!
And you won't.
To a liberal, law is a dry erase board. When they get to something they don't like, that blocks their path, they just erase it and write something else in its place.
Find the leakers and hang ‘em!!! And learn the lesson to NEVER tell any outlaw in the California government about any pending raids. Two can play the same game.
Sounds like ICE needs it’s own counter intelligence division
To a liberal, law is a dry erase board. When they get to something they don’t like, that blocks their path, they just erase it and write something else in its place.
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Exactly! To a Liberal, the truth and rule of law is what they want it to be.
arrest by who? ROTFLMAO
If there was enforcement actions every day there would be no need for tips.
>>arrest by who? ROTFLMAO<<
ICE is a full law enforcement agency and can execute arrest warrants.
I don’t know if President Trump is quite ready for this confrontation.
I wish he was, though.
If they want a separate set of laws, then they can get the hell out of this country and take all of California with them.
Book her Danno
8 U.S. Code § 1324 (a) (1) (A) (iii)
Any person who, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation shall be punished as provided in subparagraph (B).
8 U.S. Code § 1324 (a) (1) (B) (ii)
A person who violates subparagraph (A) shall, for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), (iv), or (v)(II), be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
She made a general broadcast.
It doesn’t look like that code applies.
Probably can’t prove she has any knowledge of any specific illegal.
Where the blank is Mr.Sessions?
JAIL!
Come on now, that’s not fair. He has had his hands full for the last year doing everything he can to cover up the involvement of the Leadership of BOTH parties role in the Russia Collusion and Uranium One..
That is my point. Trump and sessions are way too passive on these scofflaws.
Agreed. That should be an arrestable offence for interfering with law enforcement.
Title 8, U.S.C. 1324(a) Offenses. I’m just sayin’.
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