Posted on 01/25/2017 12:53:31 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Boy, it’s like night and day between today and this day eight years ago!
Eight years ago we were opening our doors wider to illegals and giving all kinds of entitlements. Now we are shutting the door!
So how much of the Austin’s police budget comes from the federal government?
He better watch out, or the Travis County DA will indict him for obstruction of justice and interference with a law enforcement official, on the grounds that cutting the budget of Austin means cutting the budget for law enforcement in Austin.
Get it done ,Johnny Reb.
Sanctuary cities should be sue-able for the damage they cause to others. Kate Steinle? SF should pay.
When an illegal, who has been detained and is released by local or state officials, causes injury or damages, the releasing authority should pay the injured citizen.
At some point, the taxpayers voting for this crap will notice how much it costs them.
Remember, liberals are big on telling everyone what to do, but are very small on actually bearing the costs. They love cost shifting. They are hypocrites.
If the costs they imposed on the rest of us bounced back to them, they’d modify their behavior post-haste.
Another leftist picking and choosing when they will uphold the law, and when they will ignore it based on their own beliefs.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3517380/posts
Earlier thread on this. I’m noticing not a lot of RAT screaming about this.. probably because illegals are no longer helpful for/with vote fraud and now are pure liability.
Also, it’s more likely to be RAT businesses profiting from illegals, and if they don’t de-sanctuary they’ll lose their incomes.
APD, and TCSO are separate entities.
No conviction, no property seizure.
That will cripple Austin.
cut off fending then send in troops if they still don’t take the hint.
Also, its more likely to be RAT businesses profiting from illegals
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I doubt that is true considering the stance of McCain, Graham, Rubio, Corker, Murkowsky, Heller, Hoeven, Hatch, Alexander and Flake, plus dozens of House members including the Speaker.
The Right would NEVER do such a thing....
Until they do. Let me demonstrate. In the State of Texas it is a felony to interfere with custody of a child. A felony.... This clear RULE OF LAW goes unenforced in almost every city and county across the state. Abbott knows all about this and his solution is to throw a little bit of money at a few cities and go back to business as usual.
So dont kid yourself into believing that this move is anything other than virtue signaling from a man who claims to value families yet doesn’t in practice. If Abbott can go to such lengths to enforce this law because its part of his principles, how about the rest? How about those family values?
The reality is, selective enforcement is part of Governing and Law Enforcement. Not every law can be enforced 100% of the time and leadership is free to pursue the ones they support. This is the reality that thousands of Texas non custodial parents must face daily and this is the reason given to them why potential State Felons are allowed to violate the law. Im all for solving immigration and stoping sanctuary cities, but i find the actions of the Governer to be hypocritical. If his office can practice selective enforcement and discretion, so can everyone else.
The fact that Abbott is on board with this just makes enforcement that much easier, but immigration policy is and has always been an area of Federal jurisdiction.
I have always been confused about the Texan take on illegal immigrants. It seems, at least 50 years ago, that Texans tolerated it and even encouraged it, needing the workers on their farms. Many in the dry lands of Texas even hid their workers from federal agents.
Accessory to many crimes is a jail-able offense, let’s change Federal law to put bureaucrats who shield illegal aliens in prison.
Let me get this straight: A politician BRAZENLY breaks the law and the response is we’re gonna withhold tax mony? What did the taxpayers do to deserve this? PUT THE LAW BREAKER INTO JAIL!!!!!!
Sheriff Hernandez ..... hmmmmm. Wonder what her ancestry is?
With that, it seems the time has come for many of America’s liberal cities to: (a) get used to policing their streets with smaller budgets or (b) actually start enforcing laws.
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After the funding to the sanctuary cities is cut, let’s see how the taxpayers in these outlaw cities like seeing THEIR essential services cut back in favor of paying for illegals. The political pressure is going to ratchet up big time.
Texas doesn’t have to cut funding to sanctuary cities. Counties and cities in Texas are wholly subservient units of the state gov’t.
The state can, by decree, override the ordinances and laws of any city in Texas.
The real problem, of course, is Republicans controls 2/3rds of the Texas House, which is still headed by Speaker Joe Straus, first elected Speaker by 8 Republicans and 142 Democrats.
Speaker Straus has refused, session after session, to bring up sanctuary cities, just as he does with pro-life legislation.
The real power of the Texas Governor is to call special sessions of the legislature for specific issues. This has been how pro-life legislation gets passed in Texas and while Straus is Speaker, the only way sanctuary city legislation will move forward.
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