Posted on 03/06/2020 9:57:00 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
ICE announced Friday that it had defied a California sanctuary law and arrested a repeat-felon illegal immigrant outside of San Francisco’s Hall of Justice this week, prompting angry denunciations from local officials.
The arrest is the latest escalation between the Trump administration and California over immigration enforcement, with the feds pushing back hard on the state’s sanctuary policies through lawsuits, subpoenas, and now flouting the state’s own laws.
ICE said it had tried eight times to get local authorities to turn over the man, who was not identified by name, but each time those “detainer” requests were rebuffed.
So they tracked him down as he was about to enter the courthouse for a hearing, and made the arrest.
“Our officers will not have their hands tied by sanctuary rules when enforcing immigration laws to remove criminal aliens from our communities,” said David Jennings, director of ICE’s San Francisco field office.
California last year enacted Assembly Bill 668, which attempted to make courthouse arrests without a judicial warrant illegal. That was aimed at ICE, which when it’s enforcing civil immigration laws cannot obtain a judicial warrant, but makes arrests on administrative warrants instead.
Mr. Jennings said ICE won’t let that law govern how federal officers, following laws passed by Congress, do their jobs.
And he said it’s San Francisco that suffers by protecting people like this week’s target, who had three felony convictions for burglary in 2016, 2017 and 2019.
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Totally true. I’m not saying ICE should not enforce.
Correct. Not arguing against immigration enforcement.
The scenario is valid in presence of proposed federal laws.
You are correct of course. But operationally the scenario holds valid in the presence of Democrat proposed federal gun laws.
If you site search like this (replace the search term).
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then you may see if something was posted.
Whatever.
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