Posted on 03/07/2018 11:03:48 AM PST by NRx
SACRAMENTO — Warning that California’s liberal politicians were endangering the state’s citizens and obstructing federal law, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Wednesday that the Trump administration was suing the state over laws designed to make it more difficult for federal immigration agents to operate there.
Speaking before a crowd of more than 200 California law enforcement officials in a Sacramento hotel ballroom on Wednesday morning, Mr. Sessions described the state’s so-called sanctuary laws as a radical maneuver that would threaten public safety and throw open the nation’s borders to even more illegal immigration.
Immigration law “is in the books, and its purposes are clear and just. There is no nullification, there is no secession. Federal law is the supreme law of the land,” said Mr. Sessions, one of the Trump administration’s most adamant immigration restrictionists. “But California, we have a problem. A series of actions and events have occurred here that directly and adversely impact the work of our federal officers.”
The lawsuit, which the Justice Department disclosed on Tuesday in advance of Mr. Sessions’s speech, was the culmination of a clash both the Trump administration and California have been heading toward for more than a year, with each antagonist reaping political profit from the battle. The Trump administration has sought to demonstrate that it will not tolerate noncompliance with federal immigration enforcement; California’s top officials, self-proclaimed leaders of the anti-Trump resistance, have pushed the state to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement as little as possible.
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in a strongly worded letter ...
Brown, Becerra, and that filthy mayor of Oakland need to be perp walked yesterday.
Saint Abraham Lincoln called out the Army ,Navy and the State Militias to invade the Southern states because Federal laws were not being inforced, the collection of the tarrif.Therefore San Francisco and all other California cities refusing to comply with the Federal law should be unfamiliar bockade.
We can do a lot more than that. For starters have the state department must stop issuing F-1 student visas to all California university students. Since the state has refused to work with DHS to ensure that students maintain or are otherwise in compliance the terms and conditions of their visa. The state should be decertified from the program.
The will bankrupt them in the first semester with the loss of foreign money.
Under military blockade
Sessions has gone all in, finally. Now, let us see what happens. Now it is time to call the bet....or replace Sessions.
mealy mouthed warnings and filing a lawsuit in court is hardly going ‘all in’.
California and other blue states are providing a foothold for the invasion and subsequent takeover of the United States by Mexico. These scumbag leftists need to be dealt with by FORCE.
Absolutely correct! No more F-1 student visas for CA colleges. Same with H-1b temp worker visas for companies in the state.
If the state is not participating in the immigration process, to include enforcement, then the federal government cannot safely send more foreign nationals there.
Wow, they can get the death penalty or life in prison. Look at (B)(iv).
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2001-title8/html/USCODE-2001-title8-chap12.htm
§1324. Bringing in and harboring certain aliens
(a) Criminal penalties
(1)(A) Any person who—
…
(iii) knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation;
…
shall be punished as provided in subparagraph (B).
(B) A person who violates subparagraph (A) shall, for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs—
(i) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i) or (v)(I) or in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), or (iv) in which the offense was done for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both;
(ii) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), (iv), or (v)(II), be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both;
(iii) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) during and in relation to which the person causes serious bodily injury (as defined in section 1365 of title 18) to, or places in jeopardy the life of, any person, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both; and
(iv) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) resulting in the death of any person, be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, fined under title 18, or both.
Yes...We have already have laws on the books to deal with these scumbag seditionist demoncrats. Unfortunately, we don’t have a AG willing to ENFORCE THEM.
This is how we got where we are! ACTION ACTION ACTION
I agree. Its all hot air unless there is direct action against these law breakers.
I would’ve been more impressed if he gave his speech in front of the Oakland Mayor’s office, with the US Marshals perp walking her in the background.
I like it
It’s like shooting a BB gun at a freight train.
Well, winning the drug war comes first, don’t you know...
And if California, et al don’t straighten up, they will be taunted a second time.
“I may be wrong here (and if I am, I’m certain my FReeper brethren will correct me), but I don’t think suing them is the best approach. “
No shit! It’ll take a couple of years and no guarantee of win. As above, should have been Marshals and immediate arrests.
“Is Sessions just feckless or is he also a seditious conspirator?”
He is a lifetime member of our irredeemably corrupt and depraved political class.
A scumbag has to go some to be worse than that.
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