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California: A ‘Sanctuary’ for Criminals
Wall Street Journal ^ | April 3, 2018 | Michelle Park Steel

Posted on 04/04/2018 7:11:36 AM PDT by reaganaut1

I was born in South Korea and raised in Japan. My family moved to the U.S. when I was a teenager and worked through the legal immigration process. It was difficult and time-consuming, but we achieved our version of the American Dream—like the millions who came before us.

Today this system is being threatened as California moves closer to becoming a sanctuary state, with local law enforcement under order to disregard federal law and protect illegal aliens. That’s why, as a member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors, I voted to join a federal lawsuit against Senate Bill 54, the sanctuary law Gov. Jerry Brown signed last year.

The law prohibits state and local law-enforcement officials from informing federal authorities when an illegal alien who has committed a crime is being released from custody. Instead of protecting American citizens, politicians in Sacramento have prioritized the safety of alien criminals. They are provided privileges that American citizens don’t receive—all while endangering innocent people.

California has already seen its share of unnecessary tragedies. It was the lack of partnership and communication between local and federal law enforcement that allowed a five-time deportee with multiple felony convictions to be released by a local sheriff’s department. He went on to murder Kate Steinle, an innocent 32-year-old woman in San Francisco.

Yet many local leaders seem unconcerned. In February Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf warned illegal aliens of planned arrests by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Ms. Schaaf’s political stunt endangered the public by allowing illegal aliens, many of whom had committed crimes, to avoid arrest, and it put at risk the safety of the federal officers conducting the raid.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: fugitivecities; fugitivestate; illegalaliens; sanctuary
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To: GOPJ

Being that Brown is an agent for the cause of ‘re conquista’, can he be confined to GITMO for prolonged interrogation?


21 posted on 04/13/2018 2:34:15 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Never forget that Obama enabled drug runners into US for Iran.)
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To: GOPJ

(B) is in rebellion against the Union of states ...

They are committing espionage against the US.


22 posted on 04/13/2018 2:35:19 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Never forget that Obama enabled drug runners into US for Iran.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

He went on a very secretive Mexican vacation in December 2017.

I am wondering if he met Mexican president to start making plans.


23 posted on 04/13/2018 2:56:05 AM PDT by Califreak (Take Me Back To Constantinople)
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To: Califreak

No idea, but there is plenty of public record evidence — Brown and his fellow travelers are brazen racketeers. This is organized crime out in the open.

And frankly, this might well be foreign espionage with a hostile group bent on ‘Re Conquista’.


24 posted on 04/13/2018 3:13:44 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Never forget that Obama enabled drug runners into US for Iran.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

I hate these people.


25 posted on 04/13/2018 3:17:21 AM PDT by Califreak (Take Me Back To Constantinople)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
They are committing espionage against the US.

I wouldn't trust them any further than I could throw them...

26 posted on 04/13/2018 10:51:37 AM PDT by GOPJ ( "Universities are becoming laughing stocks of intolerance." - Harvard professor Steven Pinker)
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To: GOPJ

I don’t trust them out among the general populace. These agents of re-conquista are committing foreign espionage. They belong in prison, preferably Gitmo for prolonged interrogation.


27 posted on 04/17/2018 10:14:26 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Never forget that Obama enabled drug runners into US for Iran.)
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