Posted on 03/07/2018 11:03:48 AM PST by NRx
SACRAMENTO Warning that Californias liberal politicians were endangering the states 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 states so-called sanctuary laws as a radical maneuver that would threaten public safety and throw open the nations 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 administrations 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. Sessionss 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; Californias 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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“should have been Marshals and immediate arrests.”
If he were a man, we could take comfort in his use of the word secession.
Next comes insurrection, and after that all that remains is to do what Lincoln did: send in the troops.
I’ll be impressed when he leads a contingent of US Marshalls accompanied by a battalion of US Marines to arrest the legislators who voted for the state sanctuary law and the governor who signed.
We certainly do have a problem: an Attorney General who is all talk and no action, at the precise point in time when we need an Attorney General to stop talking and take action.
Why isn’t Oakland’s mayor in a federal prison awaiting trial?
Jeff Sessions is a legal monitor.
Nope.
REAL Law Enforcement Officers are caught in the middle of this; they have to try to do their jobs every day, and the only venues where this can get clarity involve the decision of a Court of appropriate Authority on the matter and/or Congress.
TECHNICALLY you’re right; these elected bozos need to get frog-marched off to Federal Prison.
But that course of action would not result in any sort of definitive Court order that would form a framework for deciding the day-to-day pragmatic issues on the ground that Federal and Local LEO’s are faced with. You don’t generate workable inter-agency Memoranda Of Understanding by throwing elected officials in the slammer.
The groupthink is strong
TECHNICALLY youre right; these elected bozos need to get frog-marched off to Federal Prison.
But that course of action would not result in any sort of definitive Court order that would form a framework for deciding the day-to-day pragmatic issues on the ground that Federal and Local LEOs are faced with. You dont generate workable inter-agency Memoranda Of Understanding by throwing elected officials in the slammer.
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I would not mind if some CA politicians are arrested by federal agents...
But, I have a feeling that none of them will spend time in jail waiting for the trial...The judge will let those politicians out without bail...The judge will probably rule that those politicians are not flight risks...
I am frustrated that feds are not acting fast enough to deal with CA’s policies...However, I don’t know if Sessions really could do more than what he is doing now...
Yep - all talk, no action. Arrest the scumbag mayor and try her for obstruction of justice. Let her have her day in court (and may she have many days in court)
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