Trump; My Hero! - Immigration Defies Sanctuary Cities
The nation’s top Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official said Friday that his agency had “no choice” but to arrest illegal immigrants in California’s neighborhoods and worksites despite newly signed sanctuary city legislation.
Thhose arrested would also likely placed in out-of-state detention centers, ICE Acting Director Thomas Homan said in a statement.
Homan’s comments came a day after Gov. Jerry Brown D-Calif. signed bill SB54, or sanctuary state legislation.
Gov. Jerry Brown speaks at a Capitol news conference in Sacramento, Calif. Brown signed "sanctuary state" legislation Thursday, Oct. 5 that extends protections for immigrants living in the United States illegally â a move that gives the nation's most populous state another tool to fight President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
Governor Jerry Brown D-Calif. signed the sanctuary state bill legislation on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. (AP)
The bill, which goes into effect on Jan. 1, would ban police from asking people about their immigration status or participating in federal immigration enforcement activities. Jail officials would only be allowed to transfer inmates to federal immigration authorities if they have been convicted of certain crimes.
Homan cautioned the bill helped protect illegal immigrants from deportation and made the state a “magnet."
CALIFORNIA BECOMES ‘SANCTUARY STATE’ AS GOV. BROWN DEFIES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
"Ultimately, SB54 helps shield removable aliens from immigration enforcement and creates another magnet for more illegal immigration, all at the expense of the safety and security of the very people it purports to protect," Homan warned.
However, Brown noted the bill does not bar ICE from operating in the state. His office declined to comment further on the ICE statement Friday.
"They are free to use their own considerable resources to enforce federal immigration law in California," Brown wrote.
In this Jan. 25, 2017 file photo protesters hold signs as they listen to speakers at a rally outside of City Hall in San Francisco, Calif. California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation, SB54, the statuary state bill, that extends protections statewide for immigrants living the United State illegally, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu,file)
California's sanctuary state legislation, which goes into effect on Jan. 1, would ban police from asking people about their immigration status or participating in federal immigration enforcement activities. (AP)
Brown said the law does prevent the “commandeering of local officials” to do immigration work.
“These are uncertain times for undocumented Californians and their families, and this bill strikes a balance that will protect public safety while bringing a measure of comfort to those families who are now living in fear every day,” Brown said.
CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS APPROVE ‘SANCTUARY STATE’ BILL
Democratic Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, who carried the bill, said Homan's statement "exemplifies the fearmongering and lies that guide this Administration."
"The Trump Administration is once again making heavy-handed threats against California because we won't help them tear apart families and our economy in the process," de Leon said in a statement.
Democratic lawmakers in California have worked to create barriers to Trump’s campaign pledge to bolster deportation efforts.
Trump highlighted sanctuary cities during his presidential campaign after the killing of Kate Steinle, a San Francisco woman, who was fatally shot at a pier in 2015 by a Mexican national who had been deported five times. In June, Kate’s Law passed in the House, which would increase the penalties for deported aliens who try to return to the U.S.
Trump has threatened to withhold federal funding to sanctuary cities, several of which have filed lawsuits to prevent that from happening.
California is home to an estimated 2.3 million immigrants without legal authorization.
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This whole sanctuary nonsense if ridiculous. If a person is here illegally and is also arrested for a crime, it makes perfect sense that we should oust him out of the country for the safety of the citizens.
I know of illegals that have been beating their wives and were convicted of child abuse who are still roaming around the sanctuary cities because authorities refuse to take the conviction a step further.
Aiding and abetting is illegal.. arrest the politicians that pushed for this.
The State of CA has lost all sense of reality.
Liberals have taken this beautiful State to a level unrecognizable in our Country. SF/Berkeley were always nuts, but keep'em in one spot is my solution.
As ICE stated, this will simply cause more hardship for illegal aliens before they are sent home.
Tough, they should have thought of that before they hopped the border, or had an anchor baby.
I don't disagree.
What a crock that headline is. Seriously the WHOLE point of sanctuary cities/states is the REQUIRE that the Federal government do the job. So the Feds doing the job doesn't defy sanctuary cities, it actually meets their demands.
The cities defy the Federal government and the perps go free.
Yes they do. We provide them with funds through a grant in exchange for the agreement that they do exactly that. That's why we are pulling back the federal funds, because they are going against the agreement they signed in order to get the money.
Actually, they are asking them to do their job. It costs border states hundreds of millions every year County and State jails to 'hold' illegals until the Feds get around to picking them up.
2011, Perry of TX sent the Feds a 349 Million dollar invoice.
Arizona has been seeking unpaid reimbursement for decades though Governors from both parties.
BTW, I truncated your post. I refuse to quote your insult.
No they don't. Grants did not include such provisions until recently. States and municipalities are litigating those requirements and a Judge has already blocked DHS from implementing the requirements nationwide.
Then it is an insult.
BTW, your 'source' is laughable. The author of the article links other articles from the same source to support the article. It's so great to see that the NEE agrees with itself...
No one can possibly believe that.
I doubt they actually do. They just need talking points to try to justify the unjustifiable.
Not to worry, any day now the GOP will put through e-verify legislation, provide a solution for DACA, present their comprehensive immigration reform...yep, any day now! Right after they pass healthcare reform, fund the CHIP program, pass tax reform, build the wall, and lock her up.
As long as they stop Dems from pushing blanket amnesty and more socialist programs the GOP will still be successful.
Unless the GOP and Dems work on bipartisan legislation, I don't see anything getting done. The lack of legislation over the last 9 months is dismal. Now, like Obama, I'll give credit to Trump for Executive Orders. Both of whom decried utilizing and yet took to the pen like a drunk to a bottle.
A symptom of the hyper partisan times. It'll be easy come, easy go for all those EOs.
Trump's pen was primarily to undo the Obama pen.
Wondering how long the country can move forward being governed by EOs. Legislation to rein in EOs would be welcomed by America, imo.
False.
Of the 276 EO's that President Obama signed over 8 years, Trump has revoked a grand total of 3. That's 3 out of 39 Trump EO's in 8 months.
What sane person would choose to live in CA anymore?
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