Posted on 02/22/2018 2:38:44 PM PST by mandaladon
President Donald Trump said on Thursday that hes considering pulling Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers out of California.
Why? Because he feels the state is giving his administration no help in targeting the violent MS-13 gang, especially in Los Angeles.
Were getting no help from the state of California, Trump said from the White House. Frankly, if I wanted to pull our people from California you would have a crime nest like youve never seen in California. All Id have to do is say ICE and border patrol, let California learn.
Trump made those remarks during a meeting at the White House where he also spent a few minutes scolding California.
You would see crime like nobodys ever seen crime in this country, he said of California without federal immigration agents. And yet we get no help from the state of California.
He also took a shot at leadership in the state.
They are doing a lousy management job, Trump said. They have the highest taxes in the nation and they dont know whats happening out there. Frankly, its a disgrace, the sanctuary city situation, the protection of these horrible criminals in California and other places. If we ever pulled our ICE out and we ever said, hey, let California learn and let them figure it out for themselves, in two months, theyd be begging for us to come back. They would be begging.
Would the president really do such a thing?
You know what, Im thinking about it, Trump said.
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then set up border check points in new Mexico, Nevada and Oregon. instead of deporting directly to Mexico it would be cheaper to do the old Obama catch and release with the release site in California... we can set up release sub stations in Malibu, Sacramento Bel -air, San Francisco and other communities that might appreciate being participants in the farce which is border security and illegal immigration.
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