Posted on 06/30/2025 11:59:00 AM PDT by ransomnote
Today, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, and the Los Angeles City Council over policies that Los Angeles enacted shortly after President Donald J. Trump’s reelection to interfere with the federal government’s enforcement of its immigration laws.
Not only are Los Angeles’s “sanctuary city” policies illegal under federal law, but, as alleged in the complaint, Los Angeles’s refusal to cooperate with federal immigration authorities contributed to the recent lawlessness, rioting, looting, and vandalism that was so severe that it required the federal government to deploy the California National Guard and the United States Marines to quell the chaos.
“Sanctuary policies were the driving cause of the violence, chaos, and attacks on law enforcement that Americans recently witnessed in Los Angeles,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “Jurisdictions like Los Angeles that flout federal law by prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens are undermining law enforcement at every level – it ends under President Trump.”
“Today’s lawsuit holds the City of Los Angeles accountable for deliberately obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration law,” said U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli for the Central District of California. “The United States Constitution’s Supremacy Clause prohibits the City from picking and choosing which federal laws will be enforced and which will not. By assisting removable aliens in evading federal law enforcement, the City’s unlawful and discriminatory ordinance has contributed to a lawless and unsafe environment that this lawsuit will help end.”
On her first day in office, Attorney General Bondi instructed the Department’s Civil Division to identify state and local laws, policies, and practices that facilitate violations of federal immigration laws or impede lawful federal immigration operations, and, where appropriate, to take legal action to challenge such laws, policies, and practices. Today’s lawsuit is the latest in a series of lawsuits brought by the Civil Division targeting illegal sanctuary city policies across the country, including in New York and New Jersey.
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Law suits are fine, but arrests will get the desired effect much quicker.
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled The Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against Sanctuary City Policies In Los Angeles, California, Magnum44 wrote: Law suits are fine, but arrests will get the desired effect much quicker.
Arrests prior to conviction would have to be 'normal' for that crime or people will claim some kind of political witch hunt. If anyone should be found innocent, then the defendent would then sue for defamation (having public reputation destroyed, enduring public arrest and disruption of home/work life- without conviction).
If Mayor Bass sasses back to the officers and starts punching and kicking them will Van Hollen come to visit her in jail?
Maybe hold hands under the bullet resistant glass visitors’ partition between them because he can’t spoon with her?
“Usually I go for undocumented male immigrants but I make exceptions for hot women.”
That’s true.
LoL
Maybe L.A. will get lucky and Karen Bass will resign from all the stress (fires, rebuilding, protests, lawsuit.)
Her blank face, and mask like face, with insipid statements make me think she is a puppet of some organization, rather than an independent leader.
Sounds like something Dr. Obvious would say...but now, her actions should always be examined as if she is under orders...
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