The Immigration Secessionists

It turns out that everything we’ve heard about the evils of states and localities defying federal law is wrong.

So long as a jurisdiction is sticking its thumb in the eye of the federal government on behalf of illegal immigrants who have been arrested and jailed, defiance of federal authority is progressive and commendable.

Over the years, the left has created dozens upon dozens of so-called sanctuary cities devoted to frustrating federal immigration enforcement and doing all they can to make a mockery of our laws. On immigration, they are in effect little islands of secession. Somewhere John C. Calhoun must be smiling — although slightly puzzled — over the renewed prestige of a version of his old, discredited idea of nullification.

Sanctuary cities have gotten renewed attention in the wake of a horrific murder in San Francisco, a case amplified by the bullhorn of Donald Trump. Kathryn Steinle, 32, was shot and killed by an illegal immigrant, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, who had a long rap sheet and had been deported five times. The murder was easily avoidable. A few months prior, the city had arrested Lopez-Sanchez on drug charges, but it simply released him when the charges were dropped, even though Immigration and Customs Enforcement wanted to take custody of him for deportation.

TIME TO REGISTER AS A FOREIGN AGENT
Plot to over throw the govt of the US advances---
Third World official discuss plot w/ agent Obama.

JULY 2014--Central American leaders at the White House.
President Salvador Sanchez Ceren of El Salvador, left,
President Otto Perez Molina of Guatemala, second left,
and President Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras,right

SOURCE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2705876/Obama-hauls-Central-American-leaders-White-House-order-stop-immigration-flood-blame-HIM-ambiguous-policies.html#ixzz3eqMtiTOo

ICE wanted to take custody of Sanchez for deportation
but San/Fran Sheriff, Ross Mirkarimi (above) refused
to turn him over. Sheriff Mirkarimi continues to defend
savage sanctuary city policies even after the Steinle killing.

WIKI--Rostam Mirkarimi was born in Chicago to Nancy Kolman, a 19-year-old descended from Russian Jews, and Hamid Mirkarimi, an Iranian immigrant. His parents divorced when he was 5. Prior to being Sheriff, Ross Mirkarimi served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, representing District 5 from 2005 to 2011.

Mirkarimi was elected sheriff in November 2011. He served from January to March 2012, at which time he was charged with domestic violence battery, child endangerment, and dissuading a witness in connection with a December 31, 2011 New Year's Eve altercation with his wife, Ileana.

MUG SHOT---San/Fran Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi

WIKI--Mayor Ed Lee suspended him from office pending an ethics investigation. Sheriff Mirkarimi pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor false imprisonment in the wife beating case. There are videos of her displaying injuries inflicted on her by Sheriff Mirkarirmi.

According to the San Francisco city charter, removing a public official for misconduct requires the vote of nine of eleven supervisors; only seven supervisors voted to remove Mirkarimi from his office and he was reinstated in October 2012.

Mirkarimi is a co-founder of the Green Party of California. However, in March 2010, he became a Democrat.

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