ICE chief: 800 avoided arrest due to Oakland mayor's warning

AP via KCRA (Sacramento) ^ | February 28th, 2018 | Unattributed

[Mariner]

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) —

A top immigration official said Wednesday that about 800 people living illegally in Northern California were able to avoid arrest because of a weekend warning that Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf put on Twitter.

"What she did is no better than a gang lookout yelling 'police' when a police cruiser comes in the neighborhood, except she did it to a whole community," Thomas Homan, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting chief, told "Fox and Friends."

The mayor warned residents over the weekend of large-scale, impending raids by immigration agents in the San Francisco Bay Area, escalating tensions between California officials and the Trump administration.

Homan said the Justice Department is looking into whether Schaaf obstructed justice and said her actions allowed immigrants who have committed crimes to remain in Oakland, making the community less safe.

"I just can't believe it happened," he said.

Federal immigration agents arrested more than 150 people in California in the days after Schaaf's warning of the raids, the agency announced Tuesday.

[Michael.SF.]

Wow 800 people.

I bet many of the missed work that day: tables were not bussed, cars were not washed, Food Trucks were empty, hotel rooms not cleaned, lawns not mowed, Home Depot parking lots were deserted.

[PapaBear3625]

So go back next week - but don't tell anybody. I wonder if ICE could even do that without having some bleeding heart on the inside rat them out.

Have the convoy of ICE agents go down I-5, and the head agent decides on whim which exit to pull off. No warning to anyone.

[Retvet]

Send her to jail for obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting.

[HiTech RedNeck]

At the very least what the law actually is, is being researched.

Why this wasn’t anticipated, says this is still a Keystone Cops operation.

[polymuser]

Does anyone there assaulted by an illegal now have grounds against ‘her honor’?

[TalBlack]

Arrest the Mayor, this ain’t rocket science.

[falcon99]

I’m sure Jeff Sessions and the DOJ will be right on this

[magua]

Sessions will do squat. He is to busy running a referral service for Michael Howorwitz.

[HiTech RedNeck]

As the opportunity was theoretically always there for the warned people to self deport, this may be hard to prosecute.

[HotHunt]

Let the professionals handle this.

Hire Hillary.

Her people are experienced at those "two-shots-to-the-back-of-the-head" suicides.

Just eliminate the problem. Less complicated than going the arrest, indictment, court hearings, prison time route.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Why do people think two iniquities beats one? “Conservatism” needs no enemies with friends like this.

[whistleduck]

Exactly. Or misdirect. Announce California, and hit em in
Arizona. Just deprive em of sleep week after week.

It aint that difficult.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Boom.

[magna carta]

I like it

[NFHale]

I say make an example of the libidiot.

Throw her ass in jail for obstruction of a federal law enforcement action.

[NFHale]

“...Why this wasn’t anticipated, says this is still a Keystone Cops operation....”

I’m inclined to agree.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Should be charged.
Probably won’t be.
Not winning.

[A Navy Vet]

Misdirection is your friend, Mr. Homan, since you seem to have a leak. Target you place and time and tell no one until your officers are in the briefing room. Watch who gets on their phones when leaving and ask them who they were calling.

If you have any doubts about their answer, ask to see the last number they dialed. I'd think you would have that right.

[HotHunt]

"....Why do people think two iniquities beats one? 'Conservatism' needs no enemies with friends like this..."

Please explain in English.

[Colo9250]

Just call her office every morning at 8 am and tell her where you are going to be and then don’t go.