Posted by Tina
The U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is filing a lawsuit asserting that recent laws passed by the state of California interfere with the federal governments responsibilities in enforcing immigration law.
Recent efforts to arrest criminal illegal aliens by ICE were thwarted in California as a result of Sanctuary laws which Sessions claims are unconstitutional and putting his agents and the public at risk:
“The Department of Justice and the Trump Administration are going to fight these unjust, unfair, and unconstitutional policies,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions was expected to tell California law enforcement officers on Wednesday. “We are fighting to make your jobs safer and to help you reduce crime in America.”
Governor Jerry Brown responded:
“At a time of unprecedented political turmoil, Jeff Sessions has come to California to further divide and polarize America. Jeff, these political stunts may be the norm in Washington, but they don’t work here. SAD!!!”
Notice he failed to address the legal aspect of the legislation he signed into law. Sessions actions are legal. If any action is designed to divide and polarize Americans it’s the unconstitutional activism and agitation that sanctuary posturing invokes.
The Justice Department is also reviewing Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s decision to warn of an immigration sweep in advance, which ICE said allowed hundreds of immigrants to escape detention.
The laws in question include the law making California a sanctuary state, the law that gives state officials the power to “monitor and inspect immigrant detention facilities,” and the law preventing companies from voluntarily cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. Companies can be fined for cooperating with ICE…for doing what is required of them under federal law.
The Constitution doesn’t contain the word immigration. However, in 1875 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that immigration regulation was an exclusive Federal responsibility. And in 1891 Congress established the national Immigration Service. The Supremecy Clause of the Constitution “mandates that ‘This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.'”
Sessions will win in this fight and not only on Constitutional grounds. How can Brown and Schaaf justify deliberately shielding criminals from federal capture? Answer? They can’t. Both are acting against the oaths they took as servants of the people (see here and here) and against the laws that have been enacted specifically to protect the people.
An estimated 2.5 million people in California have come here illegally. The recent ICE raids targeted less than 500 people accused of criminal activity in addition to the illegal crossing of our border. One that was allowed to escape arrest in recent ICE raids is accused of heinous sex crimes perpetrated on a 5-year-old girl. Latino communities are often the most vulnerable because of sanctuary laws. Brown and Schaaf should answer for this injustice.
California, a once great state, has completely lost it’s way under the absolute control of radical left Democrats.
Way to go, Jeff! It’s about damn time!
And the invective from the Loonie Lefties in Taxifornia will be deafening!
It will be entertaining to watch this play out, J.
More:
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/377208-jerry-brown-feds-are-going-to-war-against-california
After exhaustive and diligent searching, I am unable to find a bigger idiot than Moonbeam.
And when you have candidates like Pelosi, Schiff and Schumer, that’s saying something!
That old 70’s bumper sticker still applies!
And even more from the National Review Online:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/how-an-obama-administration-precedent-may-doom-californias-effort-to-make-itself-a-sanctuary-state/
We said it here a long time back, FEDERAL LAW TAKES PRECEDENCE OVER STATE LAW. It goes in order of priority, federal, state, county, city. A City code can’t trump a County ordinance anymore than a State law can’t nullify a federal law. This is so basic to our legal system. It’s taught in every law school across the land as the rule of hierarchy. How our democrat legislators in CA ever thought they could declare CA to be a sanctuary state and defy the federal law is beyond my humble understanding. Because you have to be either stupid or a crook to even try to pull that one off, it’s so blatantly wrong. It’s insulting to the principles that founded this nation. “We are a country of immigrants, but we are also a country of laws.” Wm Jefferson Clinton.
“you have to be either stupid or a crook”
They aren’t stupid. It takes a certain twisted kind of brilliance to knowingly undermine and destroy a free nation…they have gotten away with a lot over the years.
This is such a waste of time and taxpayer’s money. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Obama when he sued Arizona over their state immigration law. Federal law is supreme. Period!
If any good comes out of it at least the Republicans will use it as a campaign topic. Every time I hear Geraldo Rivero say, (I paraphrase) “Illegal immigrants are not criminals. The only crime they committed….” I can’t help but ask, do you not understand what you just said?
We are getting fed up with our laws not being enforced. If Becerra didn’t like our immigration laws he should have submitted a bill during the decade, 2003-2013, he served in the US House of Representatives. All of them when Pelosi and Reid where in control and half when Obama was in the WH.
“Becerra was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992, representing California’s 34th congressional district from 1993 to 2003, and California’s 31st congressional district from 2003 to 2013. During his tenure in the House, he served as Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus from 1997 to 1999, vice chairman of the House Democratic Caucus from 2009 to 2013, and as a member of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. Becerra is also a member of Washington, D. C., based think tank The Inter-American Dialogue.[1]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Becerra