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Posted on 03/19/2018 10:57:14 AM PDT by jazusamo
In a resounding victory for the State of Texas, the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has thrown out almost all of a preliminary injunction issued by a lower court that was preventing the Lone Star State from enforcing a state law going after sanctuary cities such as Austin, the state’s capital.
This is the right result, both legally and morally. Not only does the state law not violate the Constitution, as was erroneously claimed, but it’s intended to prevent the state from becoming a sanctuary – a safe haven – for criminal aliens who endanger the public.
Texas certainly has a right to be concerned about aliens who commit crimes in the state. The Texas Department of Public Safety recently released a report on the 245,000 criminal aliens who had been booked into local Texas jails from 2011 through the end of February of this year. Those criminal aliens, 66 percent of whom were in the country illegally, were charged with more than 650,000 criminal offenses. They have been convicted of almost 600 murders; 30,000 assaults; 3,300 sexual assaults; 9,000 burglaries; 20,000 thefts; 38,000 drug crimes; and 274 kidnappings.
As U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a recent speech, the policies of sanctuary cities and states make no sense. The fact that these aliens were arrested for committing local crimes shows that these jurisdictions found these aliens “dangerous enough to detain them in the first place, but then insist on releasing them back into the community instead of allowing federal officers to remove them,” as Sessions noted. That is reckless behavior by public officials.
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Ping.
A great win.
Sanctuary cities are the modern day equivalent of secession. Preserve the Union!
Hey DOJ, Kalifornia is telling you to go to hell. Daring you to arrest the dozens of politicians in that state.
Rule of Law or NOT?
It is as simple as that.
Rule of law is the glue that holds this country together.
Take that you lib Austin doughnut holers.
Well said! So I repeat,
God bless Texas and the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
Bump!
Texas the Fifth Circuit are home to rational thought. California and the Ninth Circuit are their mirror images. When you are in the Secessionist State of Kalifornia or before the Ninth Circus, you know you have gone through the looking glass.
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And our Governor Greg Abbot fully intends too!!!
“the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals”...
Finally, judges with brains.
Or NOT, even in Texas. I’ve personally
witnessed local LEO’s turning illegal
immigrants loose after questioning.
They were found not guilty of committing
any major crimes. (even though they
crossed into the US illegally).
They ALL need to go!
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