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Posted on 04/20/2019 2:29:34 PM PDT by jazusamo
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld a lower court decision that ruled said sanctuary cities do not conflict with federal immigration laws. The decision comes after the Trump administration challenged multiple aspects of California's sanctuary city designation, which protects illegal aliens from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
From the Times of San Diego :
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Senate Bill 54 , otherwise known as the California Values Act, overriding the federal government’s assertion that it violates the Constitution’s supremacy clause that states federal law preempts state law when the two are at odds.
The court also upheld two other laws named in the suit, AB 103 and AB 450 , which allow the state attorney general to limit expansion of immigration detention facilities and require employers within the state to tell workers when their citizenship may be inspected by federal officials, respectively.
"SB 54 may well frustrate the federal government's immigration enforcement efforts," the court said. "However, whatever the wisdom of the underlying policy adopted by California, that frustration is permissible, because California has the right, pursuant to the anticommandeering rule, to refrain from assisting with federal efforts."
Those who champion California's refusal to cooperate with ICE were happy with the decision.
“This lawsuit against California was an affront to our state’s efforts to strengthen public safety for all while protecting families from the president’s abusive and overreaching deportation force,” San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium Chair Lilian Serrano told the Times of San Diego.
When the lower court ruled in the state's favor, California's Democratic leaders made it known they refused to cooperate with ICE.
"CA will not be complicit in the Trump Administration's attack on immigrations, and we won't back down in defending our people and our values," California's former Gov. Jerry Brown (D) said in a statement. "This Administration has intentionally separated families at the border, confined immigrant children to jail cells and blocked every attempt to shine a light on conditions at federal immigration detention facilities. Today's ruling is a victory for our state and a defeat for the Trump Administration's war on our diverse communities."
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“Roberts’” Judges are insufferable.
Perfect dump them all in California!
I am sure they would have ruled the same way for sanctuary cities for escaping federal rules for gun control, environmental laws, affirmative action, gay marriage and letting men pee in women’s bathrooms...
OK. That’s the expected bad news.
The good news for the people of Yuma and El Paso and elsewhere is that there are still “welcoming” cities “up north” where the Dems beloved immigrants can find safety and protection.
But a word of warning for those lucky immigrants who end up in San Francisco: DO NOT FAIL TO CHECK THE BOTTOMS OF YOUR SHOES AT LEAST HOURLY.
USSC up next.
Time to get back to appointing more judges. This “recess” crap has to stop.
OK, that does it. Send all the illegals to sanctuary cities President Trump. Don’t just say it, do it.
Right on!
No more excuses, the Senate has changed the debate time rule and they better start cranking them out.
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Who could have seen this coming?
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Remember when we were silly enough to actually respect judges and the law?
This will not end well.
Would someone please let me know when the shooting war starts, I don’t want to miss it.
If Ruth Buzzi Ginsburg dies while Trump is President, I fully expect some Obama appointed district judge in California or Hawaii to enter an injunction against Trump nominating anyone to fill her seat.
how many times in a year do we have to tell you that FR is located in CA?
Just drop all the illegals off in sanctuary cities/states. Problem solved.
and you do realize what is to stop these assholes from FANNING out to other states? Is there a fence around the sanctuary cities? Is there an electronic device on their ankles which once they go past the city limits?
Great! Ship all illegals to Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Send them all the illegals even to the neighborhood where these judges live.
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