DHS preparing to arrest leaders of sanctuary cities

www.washingtontimes.com ^ | - Tuesday, January 16, 2018 | By Stephen Dinan

[Red Badger]

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen confirmed Tuesday that her department has asked federal prosecutors to see if they can lodge criminal charges against sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with federal deportation efforts.

“The Department of Justice is reviewing what avenues may be available,” Ms. Nielsen told the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Her confirmation came after California’s new sanctuary law went into effect Jan. 1, severely restricting cooperation the state or any of its localities could offer.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tom Homan says those policies put his officers and local communities at more risk because they have to arrest illegal immigrants out in the community.

Mr. Homan told The Washington Times last July that he wanted to see local officials charged as complicit in human smuggling if they shielded illegal immigrants through sanctuary policies.

[Osage Orange]

DC...will NEVER totally stop enemies Foreign and Domestic....but they CAN do better.......

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Cal should be completely reformed or let them leave the Union.

 

Well - for all practical purposes they, and various other jurisdictions large & small, already have when they said F-you to the Federal government by deliberately not recognizing Fed authority over various aspects of policy and making up their own laws and procedures in direct conflict and in defiance to Fed authority. And those various like-minded jurisdictions are reaching out to each other trying to form a sort of confederacy of their own. You are watching in real time how the rebellion in the 1800's coalesced.

 

 

[ez]

Could this be what all the sealed indictments are for?

[Ticonderoga34]

Mr. Homan told The Washington Times last July that he wanted to see local officials charged as complicit in human smuggling if they shielded illegal immigrants through sanctuary policies.

I find this interesting that DHS is going to tie local officials of sanctuary cities back to human trafficking. Both Sessions and Trump have said they are going after human traffickers. The DOJ under Sessions has busted some human trafficking rings.

I don't know exactly the implications of using human trafficking angle against officials means right now. But I think it is interesting.

[WeWaWes]

Someone put up ab ALERT when a single person is arrested. I’m tired of getting my hopes up that the DOJ/DHS will do anything but nap.

[Red Badger]

Nope................

[Angels27]

I’lll believe it when I see it.

[Hyman Roth]

Kirstjen Nielsen

Sounds Norwegian

[Red Badger]

LOL!.....yes it does!..............

[markomalley]

If this action could help shave 25% off the costs, there would be more than enough money available to build a fine, big, beautiful wall.

[markomalley]

Updated chart:

[Red Badger]

If they just ‘saved’ that much money in the chart, they could pay for ‘free’ healthcare for most US citizens............................

[Strac6]

Sorry, but a legal non-starter.

[MeganC]

Some liberal Federal judge will order this stopped and then nothing will happen.

[Red Badger]

Then the ‘judge’ would be complicit as well, and would risk arrest...............

[MeganC]

It’ll happen...just watch.

[ilovesarah2012]

Can’t we just expel California from the union?

[Red Badger]

Of that I have no doubt, but no low court judge is absolute...................

[Red Badger]

There is no Constitutional procedure for that.

But we could sell it.....................

[ilovesarah2012]

Then what’s the holdup?