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Posted on 03/07/2018 9:20:58 AM PST by jazusamo
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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. California’s laws, Sessions argued, are harmful to the state’s 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.
"Here’s 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 isn’t 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 doesn’t, to frustrate federal law enforcement,” Sessions said. “So you can be sure...
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Sounds like a mic drop moment.
Where are the criminal charges for obstruction?
People from Alabama have the true wisdom on this topic. Listen to him.
His statement is all well and good, but did he have to travel out of the country to make it?
I’m glad he mentioned secessionist lunatics.
Why won’t anyone ask Californians when they will begin conducting business in peso’s?
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I watched part of AG Sessions speech, he sounded like he meant it and really hope he did.
Sessions needs to teach California a little about Big Government.
Oooooo... strong words. Put them in a letter to really make in impact. /sarc
yeah alabama is great
this POS is nothig but warnings and threats and nothing.
worthles.
oh, and thanks alabama for that dem senator
you were joking in your post right?
True wisdom but he won’t do a mother ####ing thing about it.
She should have been arrested already.
mueller dropping indictments like candy.
This POS does nothing.
All bravado. Sessions is an impotent little elf entrenched in the deep state. This all for show.
Put it this way: Even Sessions can figure it out.
Large parts of Kalifornia already do.
So in response, Sessions announces a lawsuit which will take years to work it’s way through the courts. How about some high profile arrests for obstruction and public endangerment?
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Bingo
Session is a joke. Holder would have been on it day one
Why won’t anyone ask Californians when they will begin conducting business in peso’s?
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