Posted on 02/18/2020 4:52:38 AM PST by karpov
A newly minted district attorney for a major American city vows to establish an immigration unit. At first blush, that would seem entirely normal for a prosecutor’s office. Immigration laws require enforcement, and prosecutors are in the law-enforcement business.
But no—the new San Francisco DA actually has in mind an immigration defense unit. He wants to assign a staff of prosecutors to protect undocumented aliens—those who are either illegal and thus deportable to begin with, or for whom a criminal conviction could result in loss of lawful status and thus eventual deportation. The unit’s enforcement target would be not the law violators but the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who enforce federal laws, along with any local police and corrections officials who have the temerity to assist ICE in that endeavor. The prosecutors’ mission, in the words of their new boss, would be to “stand up to Trump on immigration”—the president having made signature issues of border security and the stepped-up deportation of aliens who flout the laws.
That kind of immigration unit is not something you’d expect to find in a district attorney’s office. But of course, neither would you expect, upon this new DA’s election, a victory party marked by ear-splitting chants of “F*ck POA!” The POA is the Police Officers Association.
May I introduce to you, then, a new and uniquely destructive actor on the 21st-century scene: the progressive prosecutor.
For such law “enforcers,” the obstruction of immigration-law enforcement barely scratches the surface. The agenda here is to obstruct prosecution itself. It is, to quote Chesa Boudin, the newly elected progressive prosecutor described above, “a movement…rejecting the notion that, to be free, we must cage others.”
The movement he mentions is self-consciously racialist.
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George Soros is behind this. Barr came out and blasted him over it about a week ago.
They deserve it.
Put soros on the list of terrorist organizations and kill him
The federal gov’t has a responsibility to do something about these rogue prosecutors. We either have s law or we dont.
He's creating an ‘industry’... so attorneys can get in on the ground floor and make careers on the taxpayer dime.
It's just more BS, Liberal bureaucracy - of course disguised as a “do gooders’” program
Our law schools have created thousands of little Vyshinski.
The damage to the body politic is very large, however.
It is also being pushed at the state level with elections for Attorney General.
This would have been nipped in the bud if the Department of Justice moved quickly against elected and appointed officials who were sworn to uphold the law and then brazenly, deliberately and repeatedly ignored and refused to prosecute existing Federal drugs and immigration laws. The nonsense has now spread to criminals committing felonies.
Communism. Communism. Communism. Period.
Apply this worldview to the prosecution of criminals and come to the conclusion that criminals are the victims and society the oppressors. Once done, the progressive prosecutors who decline to prosecute are but pursuing progressivism's righteousness.
Wouldn’t this fall under the category of a Federal-level crime, specifically “obstruction of justice under color of office”?
I think that is the idea one way or the other.
Antonio Gramsci proposed to change the culture in order for Socialism (precursor to Marxism) to take hold. The ‘March through the Institutions’ include Law Enforcement.
These instances cause people to clamor ‘Do Something’ and the Politicians oblige, for the Common Good, of course.
Nicely stated
Ping
City Administration is another DNC directed effort. College studies and Administrators moving from city to city to enact social programs that spend more and hire and raise taxes at the local level.
That’s easy to answer, they are Democratic Crime Syndicate minions.
They believe an increase in unpunished crime will result in a call for them to take charge and DO SOMETHING! What they’ll DO won’t be what we want, though.
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