Trump can’t ‘intimidate’ California in sanctuary crackdown, state’s top cop says

The U.S. Department of Justice signaled its intent Friday to follow through on a widespread immigration crackdown promised by President Donald Trump, warning “sanctuary” jurisdictions across the nation, including California, that the federal government would withhold law enforcement funds if they don’t cooperate with immigration authorities.

In California, Attorney General Xavier Becerra issued a strong rebuke to the demand letter from U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

I must have missed the part where you stated that there are Mexican-Americans who disagree with Xavier Beccera

Because the fraction of that hyphenated population which might be like that is vanishingly small as we say in mathematics.

Let's try a little gedanken experiment: we declare war on Mexico, and send in troops. How many of them will be on our side?

See? It's really easy to discern loyalty and thus nationality. You already knew the answer before I asked the question.

PS: one of my long gone relatives died in Mexico fighting the war we had with them in 1846-48. He was a Tennessee volunteer (that's where the phrase came from) and was an officer who led a company. My G-uncle was with Pershing in Deming when they went after Villa in 1916. Which side of those two little conflicts do you think Becerra/Padilla/Rendon/DeLeon are on? I can safely tell you which side my family was.

As far as adjectives, here's a list:

Mexican Hegemonist -> too big of a word, most people have no idea what it means

Mexican Supremacist -> Not bad, accurate but possibly too inflammatory

Mexican Separatist -> Also accurate, definitely describes La Raza Unida / MEChA / Brown Berets de Aztlan but doesn't imply motive

Mexican Nationalist -> Pretty much sums it up. They believe in Mexico as a nation and identify with it.

Becerra is in no way a classical liberal. Any man who descends from the people who inflicted the Encomienda, Debt peonage, the Napoleonic code, and outright slavery to this day has nothing to say to us about ideas of the Enlightenment. These atavistic troglodytes are in league with the Moslems in wanting to take us back 500 years. Why in God's name would anyone turn to them to build a society of the future? They couldn't even make a society of the past work.

Send US Marshall to arrest him.

8 U.S.C. § 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.C. § 1324 (a)(1)(B)(ii) A person who violates subparagraph (A) shall, for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both;

5 years per violation.

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