“It’s simply silly to think that ANY politician will be tied to optics of border agents raiding homes and sending teens or young 20s home. Not gonna happen. Never was.”
But isn’t that exactly what the Trump admin is saying will happen in sanctuary cities?
“ICE will have no choice but to conduct at-large arrests in local neighborhoods and at worksites, which will inevitably result in additional collateral arrests, instead of focusing on arrests at jails and prisons where transfers are safer for ICE officers and the community,” Homan added. “ICE will also likely have to detain individuals arrested in California in detention facilities outside of the state, far from any family they may have in California.”
There is a MASSIVE “optics” difference between what appears to be in-your-face lawbreakers in CA vs. one-by-one, “hard working,” “students,” etc who are just trying to make it. No, the optics are totally different.
I don’t think there is any sympathy out there now for CA. It’s quite different (and you can see this even in legitimate polls) about the individual so-called “Dreamers.” Trump has even alluded to this.