Posted on 05/25/2025 11:53:53 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles is ratcheting up immigration enforcement in jails as the Trump administration looks for more ways to remove more immigrants from sanctuary cities.
U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli announced this week a pilot program dubbed “Operation Guardian Angel” intended to “neutralize” sanctuary state laws. The office identifies individuals with criminal records who have been deported and charges them with illegally reentering the United States, a federal crime.
The tactic focuses federal resources at the main place sanctuary rules have impeded the work of immigration agents — county jails and state prisons.
“Under the Trump Administration we will not allow sanctuary jurisdictions to stand in the way of keeping the American People safe,” Essayli posted on X in announcing the program.
State officials say they already cooperate with federal officials in regards to immigrants who have committed crimes.
“While the Trump Administration may seek to blame California as it grows desperate to deliver on its misguided, inhumane mass deportation agenda, immigration enforcement is and always has been the federal
government’s job,” said a spokesperson for California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta.
The practice of prosecuting individuals for illegal entry was widely employed under the Obama and second Bush administrations, but fell out of use in recent years. The resumption of it could increase the number of immigration arrests in the region, experts say.
Essayli, former state assemblyman and the son of Lebanese immigrants, was appointed last month. He told Fox News he created a dedicated group of federal officials to comb through databases to identify jailed immigrants who had been deported. The new effort could yield dozens of charges every week.
The administration has been frustrated with California’s policy that prohibits local law enforcement from arresting someone solely for a deportation order or holding someone...
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Charge, arrest, convict, and jail the ‘officials’ who are harboring the illegals. That will do more to get cooperation than some ‘new’ program.
If California cracked off into the ocean, we would attack it as an enemy of America.
“RIGHT ARM AND OUT OF STATE” as the cauliflower hippies used to say. The left has NO problem using the law to bludgeon conservatives so WHY, pray tell, can’t these “go along to get along”, impotent rinocrats get done what needs to be done? Got half a mind at this point to vote only for Muslims because at least they have a goal of taking out the true trash. I won’t, of course...at this point. But mr. And ms. Rinocrat, DON’T PUSH ME! do what needs to be done and do it quick, fast and in a hurry. These United States of America are counting on you.
what if the slave states and territories had decided on their own to keep slavery because they wanted to?
The one second allowing the “sanctuary states” and cities to practice insurrection and resistance to the law of the land was one second too long.
There are 600 “sanctuary entities” or more in the United States as of 2025. Killer of Kate Steinle: “I returned to the United States after I was deported and chose San Francisco because it is a sanctuary city and I knew nothing was going to happen to me there.”
They must be made to obey the law or suffer. Otherwise, what if I decide I prefer holy vigilante justice and punishment to the leaky, totally inept and evil system of justice that favors the law and the rights of guilty criminals over the rights of innocent victims and future victims?
The LA Times is not even good enough for emergency arse wipe!
AS IT’S CLEAR THERE ARE HUGE NUMBERS OF OTHERS WHO STILL FAIL TO GRASP THE MESS THE DEMOCRATS & RINOS HAVE CREATED, PLEASE SHARE WIDELY.
RAB
As Department of Government Efficiency continues pursuing its mission, we are astonished to learn just how extensive the tentacles of the Deep State/Intelligence Community reach. It almost seems as if every ox in the country is getting gored, as Federal expenditures get examined.
Not just for the Federal workforce, but we are learning that thousands of seemingly innocuous business are now threatened by the coming restrictions in Federal money getting sloshed around. Universities are the obvious example, but accounting firms, IT firms, law offices, domestic and international charities and Big Pharma are beginning to scream that their livelihood is being shut off.
Who would have imagined how much of the Great American Public is totally dependent on the $7 trillion borrowed dollars that the Federal government has been handing out like candy? DOGE loses its public appeal as people begin to realize how it will impact them. As I have said repeatedly, waste, fraud and abuse have a substantial Democrat Party constituency. The Democrat Party and Congress have bought a lot of goodwill through free money for little return.
Making America Great Again is not as popular as it was earlier, when the first fraud and abuse were being identified. Now our citizenry is beginning to comprehend that President Trump and DOGE are serious. Well, that’s what they voted for. American Greatness does not flow from government handouts.
GUY MILLER
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President Trump says illegal alien criminals must be deported. Democrats and Big News Media adamantly insist that immigrants commit less crime than native-born Americans. That is true, if you clarify you are talking only about LEGAL immigrants. They are so grateful to be welcomed in the country that they have little motivation to become criminals [Ilhan Omar excepted].
Illegals, on the other hand, are frequently criminals before they even arrive, coming from countries with a culture of violent crime. In border states, nearly half of all incarcerated criminals are illegals. Similar in Blue Hive sanctuary cities. It seems that people who break our laws to get here are not inclined to obey our laws, once they arrive.
The Democrat Party tries to conflate the law-abiding nature of legal immigrants as an excuse to oppose President Trump’s efforts to deport violent criminal illegals. And Big News Media are cheering them on. That is the nature of discourse in our country these days.
GUY MILLER
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