Posted on 03/06/2018 6:08:16 PM PST by NRx
WASHINGTON The Trump administration escalated what had been a war of words over Californias immigration agenda, filing a lawsuit late Tuesday that amounted to a pre-emptive strike against the liberal states so-called sanctuary laws.
The Justice Department sued California; Gov. Jerry Brown; and the states attorney general, Xavier Becerra, over three state laws passed in recent months, saying they make it impossible for federal immigration officials to do their jobs and deport criminals who were born outside of the United States. The Justice Department called the laws unconstitutional and asked a judge to block them.
The lawsuit was the departments boldest attack yet against California, one of the strongest opponents of the Trump administrations efforts to curb immigration. It also served as a warning to Democratic lawmakers and elected officials nationwide who have enacted sanctuary policies that provide protections for undocumented immigrants.
The Department of Justice and the Trump administration are going to fight these unjust, unfair and unconstitutional policies that have been imposed on you, Attorney General Jeff Sessions planned to say on Wednesday at a law enforcement event in Sacramento, according to prepared remarks. I believe that we are going to win.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2001-title8/html/USCODE-2001-title8-chap12.htm
CHAPTER 12IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
SUBCHAPTER IGENERAL PROVISIONS
§1373. Communication between government agencies and the Immigration and Naturalization Service
(a) In general
Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, a Federal, State, or local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.
(b) Additional authority of government entities
Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, no person or agency may prohibit, or in any way restrict, a Federal, State, or local government entity from doing any of the following with respect to information regarding the immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual:
(1) Sending such information to, or requesting or receiving such information from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
(2) Maintaining such information.
(3) Exchanging such information with any other Federal, State, or local government entity.
(c) Obligation to respond to inquiries
The Immigration and Naturalization Service shall respond to an inquiry by a Federal, State, or local government agency, seeking to verify or ascertain the citizenship or immigration status of any individual within the jurisdiction of the agency for any purpose authorized by law, by providing the requested verification or status information.
§1330. Collection of penalties and expenses
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2001-title8/html/USCODE-2001-title8-chap12.htm
(3)(A) The Secretary of the Treasury shall refund out of the Immigration Enforcement Account to any appropriation the amount paid out of such appropriation for expenses incurred by the Attorney General for activities that enhance enforcement of provisions of this subchapter.
Such activities include
(i) the identification, investigation, apprehension, detention, and removal of criminal aliens;
(ii) the maintenance and updating of a system to identify and track criminal aliens, deportable aliens, inadmissible aliens, and aliens illegally entering the United States; and
(iii) for the repair, maintenance, or construction on the United States border, in areas experiencing high levels of apprehensions of illegal aliens, of structures to deter illegal entry into the United States.
(B) The amounts which are required to be refunded under subparagraph (A) shall be refunded at least quarterly on the basis of estimates made by the Attorney General of the expenses referred to in subparagraph (A). Proper adjustments shall be made in the amounts subsequently refunded under subparagraph (A) to the extent prior estimates were in excess of, or less than, the amount required to be refunded under subparagraph (A).
(C) The amounts required to be refunded from the Immigration Enforcement Account for fiscal year 1996 and thereafter shall be refunded in accordance with estimates made in the budget request of the Attorney General for those fiscal years. Any proposed changes in the amounts designated in such budget requests shall only be made after notification to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate in accordance with section 605 of Public Law 104134.
(D) The Attorney General shall prepare and submit annually to the Congress statements of financial condition of the Immigration Enforcement Account, including beginning account balance, revenues, withdrawals, and ending account balance and projection for the ensuing fiscal year.
Ok
I am going into a brain slobber thinking of that
Immigration and national security are issues which are the purview of the federal government, not the states. The federal government is an agreement reached among the states. If you harbor illegals, you are stabbing the rest of the states in the back and reneging on your legal, constitutional agreement to adhere to a common policy on this issue. Illegal immigration is an issue that effects the whole country which is why the founders gave the federal government authority over it.
Is California able to prevent the illegals they harbor from crossing over into neighboring states, transporting drugs to the rest of the country, or planning terror attacks to be inflicted on the rest of the country? Of course not. Their actions endanger the country as a whole, not just their own state, and are illegal.
If a state wants to pass a speed limit of 40 mph, or tax soft drinks at 200%, that’s their business, but California is breaking their agreement with the 49 other states when they undermine federal policy on this issue, which they are constitutionally bound to follow.
Hell with that. Send Federal troops into Kalifornia and FORCE ‘em to obey the law. Just like Lincoln and Eisenhower sent troops into the Southern States years ago.
If they refuse to obey, lock ‘em up. And if necessary, shoot them.
What’s good for the goose is good for the “Resistance.”
“If a state wants to pass a speed limit of 40 mph, or tax soft drinks at 200%, thats their business, but California is breaking their agreement with the 49 other states when they undermine federal policy on this issue, which they are constitutionally bound to follow.”
Bingo.
THIS!! ^^^^
Here is a quote from Mr. Becerra from 9/2017;
California is not looking to pick a fight, he said. But if Trump is trying to get in our way, thats when we go at it.
To leftists like the NYT, no immigration is illegal. The only thing illegal are white Americans...being a white, hetero male, now thats a capital crime.
Winning!!!!
awesome president :)
“I want the army in there to arrest brown and the entire legislature.”
Me too, and I live in CA. And make sure that they arrest the Republicans too while they’re at it, because they are very much part of the whole problem of lawlessness here.
Hollywood will hate Trump even more. They are about to loose all the under paid for din invading house staffs.
Donald Trump is the best thing to ever happen to California.
Yes yes yes
Heard it on my sheepish local radio tonight in the GAY BAY
LOVE IT
TIMES 6000000
“The gov did not sue Little Rock”
Yes they did, and Alabama too.
It was the Fed Court order that was presented to each before it escalated to Federalizing the National Guard.
The SCOTUS precedent on SB1070 will bury California.
Next time I hear a Dem libtard progressive scream Rule of Law, I am going to either put my hands on them or laugh my arse off. =.=
Secede. Pleaaase. Get armed insurrection brutally put down and all participants disenfranchised pursuant to the 15th Amendment. Pleeeeeease!
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Dont sue
Send the US Marshalls to arrest the politicians who are abetting the illegals
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THANK YOU. JHC, govt can’t watch and chew gum @ the same time?!
Round up the clowns and THEN file.
What’s next, they going to let the lower courts make @sses of themselves, wasting taxpayer $$ and all of our time, instead of going directly to SCOTUS??
About time. The next step?
I’d say that unless they in kalifornia, cease and desist, that a state of insurrection against the United States exists.
Taken to the ultimate conclusion, this is what the Insurrection Act of 1807 (amended in 2006) was created for.
They have been warned.
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