In 2018, California implemented the California Values Act, which gave special protection to illegal aliens by mandating that California law enforcement agencies cannot cooperate with federal immigration authorities. Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) thumbed its nose at California and arrested two people in Sonoma County Superior Court.
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California has lots of reasons to hang onto its roughly 2.2 – 3.5 million illegal immigrants. They provide cheap, easily-exploited labor. They swell the state’s population, which matters for electors and congresspeople, as well as the distribution of certain federal funds. As illegal immigrants are fed into the system, they provide reliable (legal or illegal) Democrat votes. And they make Californians feel virtuous even as they allow corrupt Latin American states to continue exploiting their own citizens and destroying their economies by relying on remittances from people illegally in America.
For these reasons, California enacted the pompously named “California Values Act.” Although the act refers to “immigrants,” it’s obviously intended to affect only illegal aliens because the Act’s entire purpose is to use the agencies of the state to prevent ICE from gaining access to people illegally in California – including people who have committed crimes in California. This is the type of law that could only come from legislators and other virtue signalers ensconced in comfortable middle- and upper-middle-class enclaves unaffected by felonies that would never have happened but for open borders and sanctuaries.
Throughout the Obama administration, sanctuary cities and states were able to get away with these policies because the Obama administration, despite Obama’s sworn obligation to upload the laws of the United States, approved of open borders. Trump promised to change all that.
During the first three years of his administration, rather disappointingly, Trump was able to have little effect on illegal immigration or on deportation. However, Trump was just getting his ducks in a row. He was hampered by a reluctant Republican Congress, which was superseded by a violently resisting Democrat House. He also had to deal with “resistance” judges who blocked every immigration initiative he made.
Finally, though, things are changing. Trump was able to squeeze money out of Congress for his wall and, even more importantly, with help from Mitch McConnell, he’s changing the judiciary:
Great news for the U.S. Constitution! @realDonaldTrump has flipped the 9th Circuit — and some new judges are causing a 'shock wave' latimes.com/california/sto…
With a judiciary that believes in interpreting the law, not making it, Trump’s administration is able to act in accordance with the Supremacy Clause (Constitution, Art. VI, Clause 2):
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.
In other words, when there’s a direct conflict between state laws and federal laws, federal laws prevail.
Because the critical mass of judges is no longer deliberately inserting itself as an obstacle between federal laws and illegal immigrants, ICE is beginning to carry out its duty as written under the law:
U.S. immigration agents arrested two people at a Northern California courthouse, including a man detained in a hallway on his way to a hearing, flouting a new state law requiring a judicial warrant to make immigration arrests inside such facilities.Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents made the arrests Tuesday at Sonoma County Superior Court, prompting an outcry from criminal justice and court officials who said the action undermines local authority and deters immigrants who are in the country illegally from participating in the U.S. justice system.ICE said California's law doesn't supersede federal law and “will not govern the conduct of federal officers acting pursuant to duly-enacted laws passed by Congress that provide the authority to make administrative arrests of removable aliens inside the United States."“Our officers will not have their hands tied by sanctuary rules when enforcing immigration laws to remove criminal aliens from our communities," David Jennings, ICE's field office director in San Francisco, said in the statement.
At long last, in Trump’s America, the rule of law matters again. The reliability of law is one of the essential ingredients of a just and successful civilization. In that context, if you don’t like the law, you change it through the democratic process, not through illegal and unconstitutional resistance.
ICE Arrests Criminal Alien Released 7 Times Under NYC Sanctuary Policy
Source: Courtesy of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the arrest of a Jamaican national who has repeatedly been arrested and then released seven times by local law enforcement in New York City on charges that include grand larceny to reckless endangerment.
Andre Lloyd Campbell was arrested by ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) on Feb. 14, after local law enforcement repeatedly ignored an active immigration detainer for the illegal alien.
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Critics of illegal immigration argue that the
crime rates of illegal aliens are higher than those of the American population generally,
or at least of legal immigrants. The New York Times has denied that illegals commit more crime than other groups, but
the paper bases its claim on a Cato Institute study that relies on questionable data. In fact, nobody can calculate
with accuracy the crime rates of illegal immigrants or any other social group
unless they have reliable data on the size of the group, and we simply don’t
know how many illegal aliens there are in the United States.
Nationwide data on crime by illegal aliens is
unavailable mainly because most states don’t keep such records. For
instance, California, with Hispanics making up more than 43 percent of its
incarcerated population, provides no information on the alienage of its
inmates. Texas does, though, and its Department of Public Safety reports that illegal aliens were arrested and charged with more
than 298,000 crimes, an average of over 39,000 per year, from June 1, 2011 to
the end of 2018. Though some of these arrests were for nonviolent crimes, such
as theft, burglary, or drug offenses, they also include many violent crimes:
624 homicides, 1,911 robberies, and 3,955 sexual assaults (which, under Texas
law, include rapes).
While these figures sound disturbing, we can’t
say with certainty if they are high relative to the size of the illegal
immigrant population because, as noted above, we really don’t know how many there
are. A 2014 estimate by the Pew Research Center pegged the Texas figure at
1,650,000, or 6.3 percent of the state’s entire population. Homeland Security
offered a higher estimate for 2015: 1,940,000, which accounted for 7.3 percent of
the state’s population.
Among all arrests for selected offenses over the
period 2012 to 2017, illegal aliens were taken into custody for homicide (which
includes murder and manslaughter) in numbers greater than their population size
would predict. They accounted for nearly 10 percent of all apprehended killers,
whereas, using the high-end DHS estimate, they make up 7.3 percent of the Texas
population. For all other crimes, however, including burglary, drugs, theft,
robbery, and weapons offenses, their apprehension percentages ranged from 2.5
to 6.7 percent—in other words, below their putative population size.
The crime of homicide provides the most accurate
measure, though, because a much higher proportion of murders are solved by
police—around 70 percent—than for any other crime; by contrast, fewer than 15
percent of property offenses lead to an arrest. As a result, we have much more
accurate demographics for murderers than for, say, burglars. The indication
that illegal aliens commit disproportionate numbers of murders is corroborated
by crime rates, shaky though they may be, for 2014 and 2015—the two years for
which we have population estimates from Pew and DHS. In 2014, Texas
illegal-alien murder-arrest rates were 4.99 per 100,000—56 percent higher than
the rates for all other apprehended murderers (3.2 per 100,000). In 2015, the
rates were 35 percent higher for illegal aliens (4.2 per 100,000, versus 3.1
per 100,000).
Granted, neither the rates nor the percentages of
illegal aliens arrested are overwhelmingly high. And the rates and percentages
for other crimes that they commit are below those of the arrested citizen and
legal-alien populations. Still, illegal aliens account for nearly 10 percent of
the apprehended murderers in Texas, and over 39,000 of the annual arrests for
crime overall. These figures are significant, reflecting crime in a single
state with an outsize number of illegal aliens—a small part of the nationwide
picture.
No amount of crime by those who enter this
country unlawfully should be acceptable, because it is “extra” crime that
wouldn’t occur if our border security were effective. Crime by illegal aliens
is costly. The real issue underlying the current public debate is whether the
crimes of illegal immigrants are so numerous that they provide a compelling
reason, or at least a powerful supporting argument, for urgent spending to
secure our southern border. Judging by Texas the answer, though not
incontestable, seems to be “yes.”
Biden Vows No Deportations First 100 Days, No Deportations for Foreign Crimes
Source: AP Photo/Sarah Blake Morgan
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said during a CNN town hall in Las Vegas on Thursday evening that under his presidential administration nobody would be deported during his first 100 days in office. The former vice president also ruled out deporting illegal aliens for crimes committed in other countries, which would make the United States a sanctuary for criminals all over the world.
"Nobody, and some of you are going to get mad at me with this, but nobody is going to be deported in my first 100 days until we get through the part where we find out the only rationale for deportation will be whether or not you've committed a felony while in the country," Biden said in response to a question about ICE.
Joe Biden is considered a centrist among his fellow Democratic rivals vying for the party's presidential nomination, but turning the United States into a sanctuary country for the world's criminals is one of the craziest things we've heard in a primary teeming with crazy candidates. It'd be nice to chalk the comment up as another Biden gaffe, but it's actually one of the rare sentences Biden managed to put together without losing his train of thought.
If he’s elected President, Joe Biden says he won’t deport ANYONE for the 1st 100 days & during his whole presidency he would ONLY deport people who commit felonies IN the United States. If they murder or rape outside the US, Joe will let them stay. Insane!
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In January, Biden outlined another radical immigration policy of his, telling a Vice News Election Forum that he would fire ICE agents who arrest illegal immigrants for anything other than a felony, adding, "and I don’t count drunk driving as a felony."
An ever growing number of Angel Families have lost children to illegal alien drunk drivers. The Angel Families weren't voting for Joe Biden anyway, but Biden's policies would certainly create more grieving American families. The Democrats care more about protecting criminal foreigners than protecting the lives of American citizens.
Biden's radical immigration proposals come before the Nevada Caucuses, which take place Saturday, Feb. 22. The Democratic candidates have been trying to appeal to Nevada's large Hispanic base ahead of the contest.
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