Posted on 03/07/2018 9:20:58 AM PST by jazusamo
Video at link.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a stern warning to California the same day he announced a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department over the state's immigration policies.
I understand that we have a wide variety of political opinions out there on immigration. But the law is in the books and its purposes are clear and just, Sessions said during a speech to the California Peace Officers Association in Sacramento on Wednesday.
There is no nullification. There is no secession. Federal law is the supreme law of the land. I would invite any doubters to go to Gettysburg, to the tombstones of John C. Calhoun and Abraham Lincoln. This matter has been settled, he continued.
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against California on Wednesday that aims to block three so-called sanctuary laws California's legislature passed last year. The laws dictate how local jurisdictions should interact with federal immigration authorities. Californias laws, Sessions argued, are harmful to the states residents, and prevent law enforcement officers from doing their jobs.
He singled out Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who last month warned residents of an impending Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid. Schaaf defended her decision even after ICE said it was unable to locate more than 800 people as part of its sweep of the city.
"Heres my message to Mayor Schaaf: How dare you," Sessions said Wednesday. "How dare you needlessly endanger the lives of our law enforcement officers to promote a radical open borders agenda."
He said the Justice Department isnt asking the state to enforce federal immigration law, but rather is asking California and local jurisdictions to stop actively obstructing federal law enforcement.
California is using every power it has, and some it doesnt, to frustrate federal law enforcement, Sessions said. So you can be sure...
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I disagree. States do not have the power to create immigration law, immigration policy/law is the sole province of the Federal government. You want states to have the power to infer citizenship on anyone they want?
Cali can still split in two and probably should.
101st Airborne at Little Rock Central High, Arkansas, back when local authorities decided they could ignore federal desegregation laws.
I watched the Session Speech in California and I want to commend the Attorney General. I ,like most here, am frustrated with his inaction but when he does act we must step up to support him. That is what we wanted him to do. His approach is to use the court to bitch slap the hell out of these open border anti Americans in communist california and believe me the judicial hammer WILL fall under the Supremacy clause of the Constitution .As he points out— that issue was resolved in 1865 and in the civil rights movement. IT IS OVER!! Obstruction of Federal enforcement is a FELONY and I would rather he would arrest that Oakland bitch that placed law enforcement in harms way by alerting criminal illegal aliens of enforcement. 850 criminal illegal aliens escaped. But at least Sessions is doing something about it and I for one say Thank You.
It’s not actually the law of the land unless it is enforced. Get off your butt, Sessions. California officials need to be put in federal prison until their trials for treason.
If California splits into two, then there are four radical senators from the state instead of two.
“Where are the criminal charges for obstruction?”
How about sedition or rebellion?
Bump!
This is my problem. Why isn’t she under arrest? Of course, I know she’ll be portrayed as Rosa Parks but it would be significant.
Yep, California may find itself in the same position as Little Rock, AR but on a much larger scale.
“Its not actually the law of the land unless it is enforced. Get off your butt, Sessions. California officials need to be put in federal prison until their trials for treason.”
Put that Marxist bitch in jail for 20 years for rebellion or sedition, and the rest will get in line, pronto. Hell, just charging her will do the job (not to mention significantly stimulating sales of duct tape, as desperate Leftists rush to prevent their heads from exploding).
There would be an added benefit - even world leaders would take note of this, and realize that it would be best to not F... with Donald Trump.
It is under the usurpation of States rights that the fed does this. Remember every power we give to the Fed in good concience , will be used to do things we dont agree with at some point.
The less power the Fed has the more free we are. As misguided as Californias policy is , as long as the voters keep voting for this crap, they have the right to make it how they want it. And we have the right to do the same.
true this
Heh heh great reference...
I support #TEXIT and will in spite of your small words.
Now, I have just HEARD that some California counties now allow illegal aliens EXCLUSIVELY to pay their property taxes in Mexican pesos. Does anyone know of a person who has actually done that?
Let them secede and we’ll deport all our illegals to California.
“AS LONG AS that federal law is PURSUANT to the U.S. Constitution, which is the Supreme Law of the Land (Art VI, Cl.2).The Constitution trumps federal law. The Constitution is the ONLY SOURCE of authority for valid federal laws and acts. It the federal law or act is not constitutional, it is not valid, and should be rejected, resisted, and nullified by the states.Here, the issue is federal immigration law, which authority the Constitution has delegated to the feds, so the feds are in the right and California is in the wrong.”
This!
Tough talk. Meanwhile he sits on the sidelines while Mueller interviews Belorussian hookers.
That's really deceitful and underhanded, I love it!
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