“The report noted that many illegals
don't have jobs or have
difficulty in landing
good jobs because of local laws.”
“However, it identified several states that
have begun easing
employment laws so
that illegals can get a job.”
don't have jobs or have difficulty in landing
good jobs because of local laws.”
have begun easing employment laws so
that illegals can get a job.”
MEXIFORNIA: The Shattering of the
American Dream
MILLIONS of JOBS and BILLIONS in
WELFARE and they commit most of the MURDERS
SANCTUARY CITIES AND STATES: AMERICA FALLS TO LA RAZA SUPREMACY!
“What we're seeing is our Congress and
national leadership dismantling our laws by not enforcing them.
Lawlessness becomes the norm, just like Third World corruption.
Illegal aliens now have more rights and privileges than Americans. If
you are an illegal alien, you can drive a car without a driver's license
or insurance. You may obtain medical care without paying. You may work without
paying taxes. Your children enjoy free education at the expense of
taxpaying Americans.”
How Badly Could Trump Hurt Sanctuary Cities?
The federal funds under threat could amount to more than 20 percent of a city budget, or less than 1 percent. Either way, cities could well end up hurting.
Earlier this month, Governor Jerry Brown of California captured the admiration of many a Trump adversary during a speech on climate change at the American Geophysical Union Conference in San Francisco. “If Trump turns off the satellites [collecting climate data], California will launch its own damn satellites!” he exclaimed to a cheering room.
This is, indeed, what the resistance sounds like. Local and state governments all over the country are gearing up for a bitter fight with the incoming administration over several points of policy, including climate change and immigration enforcement—the latter of which is especially pressing for cities in particular. Trump has promised to revoke federal funding for sanctuary cities within his first 100 days. A long list of major cities have since gone on record to say they won’t change their policies despite those threats—but if Trump could succeed in keeping every federal grant from reaching their coffers, it could constitute a devastating financial blow to metros that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration officials.
Luckily for the cities vested in these policies, that’s a key conjunction: if. Various legal obstacles stand in the Trump administration’s way. They could prove onerous enough to nix his attempts altogether, or water them down so much they become nothing more than wrist-slaps for the cities in question. CityLab consulted experts in constitutional law (and this post from the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability) to lay out exactly what hoops the administration might have to jump through in its quest to force cities into compliance with federal immigration enforcement programs, and how much money could eventually be at risk.
A statutory challenge
According to Ilya Somin, a professor at George Mason University of Law who has written previously about the subject, the first obstacle Trump faces doesn’t even have to do with constitutional law; it’s a question of simple statutes. For decades, Supreme Court precedent has maintained that any condition on a federal grant must be expressly written into the law in a “clear and unambiguous” fashion. Somin says there are likely very few federal grants expressly conditioned on compliance with deportation efforts—in fact, he can’t think of any at all. So Trump wouldn’t be able to simply withhold all federal grants from particular cities on his first day in office. He would need help from Congress in the form of entirely new grants, all written with the stipulation that cities must comply with deportation efforts in order to receive funds. That could take much longer to accomplish than Trump has implied, although with Republican majorities in both houses, it’s certainly not out of the question.
Is the funding ‘germane’?
But here Trump would encounter yet another obstacle. Say the administration got Congress to pass a law that ties federal grants to local compliance with deportation efforts. The next question becomes, ‘Are all of those grants germane?’ That is, are the conditions for withholding relevant to what the funds are actually used for?
States and localities across the country receive federal grants for everything from education to housing to infrastructure to law enforcement. The narrowest interpretation of the ‘germane’ qualification means that only grants related to law enforcement or immigration would be at risk, since those are the only ones directly relevant to immigration enforcement. That would likely represent a manageable loss for most large cities—just a small part of their overall operating budgets. But according to William Baude, a professor of law at the University of Chicago who spoke with Daniel Hertz at the CBTA about this issue, courts could also conceivably take a much wider view, and decide that all grants that benefit undocumented immigrants are fair game. That would include basically all grants, because city services and programs—from infrastructure to education to parks—all benefit undocumented people in one way or another. Losing all those grants would be a much bigger monetary hit —nearly 14 percent of Chicago’s total operating budget, according to Hertz.
Are the conditions coercive?
According to Supreme Court precedent from last year’s Affordable Care Act ruling, the federal government cannot place conditions on funding so severe that they constitute a “gun to the head” of the locality. In the Obamacare ruling, that determination came from the administration's attempt to withhold Medicaid funding from those states that refused to expand the program. Withholding all Medicaid funding (which would substantially affect the state’s budget and healthcare access for millions of people) was deemed to be “unconstitutionally coercive.”
If the Trump administration managed to take away all federal grants from sanctuary cities, this move could also be deemed too coercive. But according to Somin, ”what exactly qualifies as a ‘gun to the head’ remains unclear.” In the case of big cities, all federal funding might add up to only around five percent of the total budget, which is presumably less financial pressure than the ACA was exerting on states—but that doesn’t mean that the loss would be manageable.
How much could this hurt a city?
It’s hard to say whether Trump’s policies could hit a city hard enough to make sanctuary city policies untenable there. That depends on whether the city could fill some of the gaps created by the loss in funding with its own revenues, and how much political will it has to continue its refusal to participate in deportation efforts. It also depends on how much money Trump could ultimately take away.
The chart below shows what it would look like for five different major sanctuary cities to lose all of their federal grant funding, as a percentage of their total operating budget.
*Numbers are approximate from FY ‘15 and FY ‘16, obtained from city officials in every city except Chicago, where we used CBTA numbers.
Some of the above percentages are huge chunks of the city budget, particularly in Washington, D.C., and Chicago. In D.C., federal grants make up more than 20 percent of the total budget, which would likely make withheld funds difficult for the city to absorb—and would probably be unconstitutional under the Supreme Court precedent. But even in cities like L.A. and San Francisco, where the effect looks comparatively small, losing this money could still be damaging.
“L.A. has an $8 billion budget, but some of these [federal grants] go to our highest-need areas,” says Connie Llanos, the press secretary for Mayor Eric Garcetti. “It’s not really about something being about X percentage of the total budget. If you remove one of these pots of funding, there’s nowhere for the city to backfill it from because it’s not something we fund.”
Given these huge numbers and the logistical complications, it seems unlikely (though certainly not impossible) that Trump would be able to stop every flow of federal funds. So with help from Philip Wolgin at the Center for American Progress, CityLab outlined another tactic Trump could take: Below, we’ve charted five specific federal grants going to the same cities we looked at above. These grants were chosen, Wolgin explains, because congressional Republicans have already targeted them in legislative attempts to defund sanctuary cities in 2015 and 2016. As such, they seem like a logical place for the new administration to begin.
These grants go toward funding for things like law enforcement (JAG and COPS), reimbursement for incarceration of undocumented immigrants (SCAAP), and economic development and anti-poverty initiatives (the Economic Development and Community Development Block Grants).
All of the above grants constitute less than 1 percent of each city’s total budget. As Wolgin told CityLab via email, these funding streams shouldn’t be taken as a complete list of those that could be at risk—just a starting place, given that they’ve been part of the debate already. “I also do not mean to concede in any way that the administration or Congress legally could cut any of these funding streams—there may be constraints on what conditions can be placed on various funding streams (which is a big open question),” Wolgin adds.
Most of the cities we contacted said they couldn’t speculate about what losing these grants might do to the budget. But in L.A., Llanos mentioned that losing several grants—in particular, community development block grants, which help create jobs in high-need areas—would likely disproportionately affect low-income residents.
The city officials I spoke with also usually reaffirmed their commitment to maintaining their policies despite the threat of funding cuts. “[The Mayor] will stand in opposition to policies that threaten our values,” says Susana Castillo, deputy press secretary for Mayor Muriel Bowser in D.C., in an email statement.
It remains to be seen how firmly Bowser (or any other mayor) will truly be able to stand her ground—but given the myriad legal obstacles in Trump’s path, the administration’s promises to cut funding don’t look quite so surefire either.
CAUTION!
GRAPHIC IMAGES of America coming under Mex Occupation
The NARCOMEX drug cartels now
operate in all major American cities and haul back to NARCOMEX between $40 top
$60 BILLION from sales of HEROIN!
Mexican cartel smugglers have taken full
advantage of the system in order to maximize their profits from human smuggling
as well as the smuggling of illegal aliens. In 2014, Mexico’s Gulf Cartel was
able to make
approximately $38 million in a matter of months off human smuggling alone.
“Mexican drug cartels
are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant
Islamists have the
goal of destroying the United States. Mexican
drug cartels
are now
accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually
every community
across this country.” JUDICIAL WATCH
AMERICA: NO LEGAL NEED APPLY
REPORT: The assault to finish off
the American middle-class is NOT over
“The report noted that many illegals don't have jobs or have
difficulty in landing good jobs because of local laws.”
“However, it identified several states that have begun easing
employment laws so that illegals can get a job.”
AMERICA: One paycheck
and two illegals away from homelessness.
"The economists found that the pre-tax share of
national income received by the
bottom half of the US population has been cut nearly
in half since 1980, from 20
percent to 12 percent, while the income share of the
top one percent has nearly
doubled, from 12 percent to 20 percent."
EVANSTON, ILLINOIS surrenders
THE MEXICAN OCCUPATION and LA RAZA SUPREMACY EXPANDS BORDER
TO BORDER!
A
municipality just outside Chicago, Illinois has now pledged itself to be a home
for illegal aliens who want to be shielded from federal immigration law,
officially claiming the mantle as a sanctuary city.
HEROIN!
MEXICO INVADES, LOOTS AND EXPANDS
ITS HEROIN MARKETS IN AMERICA’S OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS
JUDICIAL WATCH:
“The greatest criminal threat to the daily lives of American
citizens are the Mexican drug cartels.”
Much more here:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-american-border-with-narcomex.html ……post
on your face book
“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to
America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States. Mexican drug
cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in
virtually every community across this country.”
MEXIFORNIA:
THE LA RAZA MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY
AND LA RAZA DEM POLICITICIANS GEAR UP TO
FORMALLY SURRENDER TO MEXICO.
“The
election of Trump has led Californians to threaten to leave the union, and
there are many Americans who are eager to see them leave. Their
secession would end the flow of illegals from that state and the millions
in federal
grants they now receive.”
"The American Southwest seems to be slowly
returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single
shot." --- EXCELSIOR --- national
newspaper of Mexico
OPEN BORDERS: The Democrat
Party’s Weapon of Mass Destruction on the American Worker
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-la-raza-mexican-crime-tidal-wave.html
"Los Angeles saw
all crime rise in 2015: violent crime up 19.9 percent, homicides up 10.2
percent, shooting victims up 12.6 percent, rapes up 8.6 percent, robberies up
12.3 percent, and aggravated assault up 27.5 percent,"Landry said.”
TRUMP
FOLDS TO LA RAZA MEX FASCIST MOVEMENT
Says
the “WALL” will now be only “NO TRESSPASSING” signs posted every hundred miles!
“He's showing more empathy for illegal aliens than he is
for American citizens. Shouldn't it be the concerns of Americans he
should be considering first, before the feelings of illegals? These
people are taking taxpayer money and American jobs, some committing crimes, and
many are not assimilating and speaking English, and Trump wants them to stay?”
FIXING
AMERICA’S UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS:
How
many jobs in your community are held by foreign born?
SHOCKING
REPORT!
THE STAGGERING ILLEGAL INVASION:
INVADE, MURDER, RAPE, BREED ANCHOR BABIES FOR WELFARE and VOTE DEM FOR MORE!
The report was apparently completed in May, leading some to suspect
that the Obama administration did not want it released for fear that it
would bolster Donald Trump’s call for a border wall.
*
This new report, whose full text the Center for Immigration Studies has
now obtained, estimates that nearly half of illegal aliens slip through the
southern border undetected.
THE FASTEST GROWING POLITICAL
PARTY IN AMERICA IS THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA. IT IS AN AMERICAN TAX
SUPPORTED POLITICAL PARTY.
15 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LA
RAZA “THE RACE”
by Michelle Malkin
"The American Southwest seems
to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single
shot." --- EXCELSIOR --- national
newspaper of Mexico
ILLEGALS & WELFARE
70% OF ILLEGALS GET WELFARE!
“According to the Centers for
Immigration Studies, April '11, at least 70% of Mexican illegal alien families
receive some type of welfare in the US!!! cis.org”
CIS
LOS
ANGELES: Mexico’s Second Largest City, First Place for Billion Dollar Mexican
Welfare, Number 1 for Mexican Murder and Western Gateway For the LA RAZA
Mexican Drug Cartels
WHY
ARE ILLEGALS ABOVE THE LAW?
SANCTUARY
CITIES and SANCTUARY STATE of CALIFORNIA: The LA RAZA welfare state on our
backs!
BUILDING THE MEXICAN CARTELS IN THE AMERICAN BURBS!
MEXIFORNIA (Formerly
California) NOW UNDER NARCOMEX CONTROL
Suspected Illegal Alien
Marijuana Farmers Held Workers Hostage: ICE
THE
STAGGERING COST OF AMNESTY: non-enforcement is another
form of AMNESTY!
Legals
to pay trillions for open borders and Mexico’s looting
Between one-quarter and one-third of the 1.5 million
new arrivals in 2014 were illegal aliens, meaning that a conservative estimate
is that 1,000 illegal aliens a day are moving to the United States.
LA
RAZA FACISM:
Ethnic
Cleansing By Mexicans Occupying California…. Where Mexico loots first!
THE FACE OF MEXICAN FASCISM:
ANTONIO “Taco Runt” VILLARAIGOSA
DECLARES MEXIFORNIA’S SURRENDER TO LA RAZA
SUPREMACY
“Taco Runt” is a member of the
Mexican Fascist Movement of M.E.Ch.A. and a racist (yes, Mexicans think of
themselves as a unique “race”) LA RAZA supremacist.
He is proud of the fact that he
FAILED California’s State Bar test more than any other illiterate Mexican on
earth and that qualifies him to operate California’s Mexican Welfare State for
LA RAZA.
MEXICO’S
CITY of SANTA ANA, in the ORANGE COUNTY, California should secede and join
Mexico.
It
is not an American city.
HOW
MANY CITIES OR STATES SHOULD SECEDE TO MEXICO?
MEXIFORNIA: LA RAZA-OCCUPIED AND
LOOTED
LA RAZA MEX ETHNIC CLEANSING IN CALIFORNIA…. of
legals.
SANTA ANA SURRENDERS TO LA RAZA FASCIST MOVEMENT
Another California City Waves the Mexican Flag
ATTORNEY GENERAL IN LA RAZA-OCCUPIED MEXIFORNIA … a state where half the
murders are by mexican gangs!
LA RAZA FASCIST XAVIER BECERRA – HIS CAMPAIGN BRIBES AND THE MEX DRUG DEALER
It didn’t stop Becerra, a prominent Latino
rights advocate who has served in Congress since 1993, from pushing for
the dealer’s release at the request of his father,
Horacio. The elder Vignali, a rich Los Angeles businessman, contributed
thousands of dollars to Becerra’s various campaigns and a favor was in
order.
RAPE, MURDER, SCALPING… THE
MEXICANS HAVE ARRIVED!
Sheriff: MS-13 Gang Brings Machetes, Rape,
Scalping to Texas
BY BOB PRICE
Members of the hyper-violent
MS-13 transnational criminal gang are bringing severe tactics like
machete-hacking murders, rape, and scalping to Texas according to the Texas
Sheriff’s Association.
TEXAS:
MEXICO’S SOUTHERN PROVINCE
ANOTHER LA RAZA RAPE of a CHILD
NO ONE TOLD THE MEX RAPIST WE HAVE BORDERS!
REPORT:
East
Texas Child Murdered by Previously Deported Illegal Alien
Law
enforcement officials in East Texas are reporting the alleged murderer of
10-year-old Kayla Gomez-Orozco is a previously deported illegal alien from
Mexico.
LA RAZA-OCCUPIED NEW YORK…
What? You thought that Mexico hand only invaded, occupied and looted CA, NV,
NM, AZ and TX???
SERGIO RAMSES MUCINO HIRED
ILLEGALS.
ICE ROUNDED THEM UP AND TOOK
HIS PORSCHE AND CADILLAC.
40 MILION MEX FLAG WAVERS TO GO!
FROSTY WOOLDRIDGE:
MEXICO’S STAGGERING LOOTING IN OUR OPEN BORDERS….
ARIZONA…. MEXICAN
WORLD CAPITAL FOR LA RAZA CAR THEFT
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/10/frosty-wooldridge-what-if-hillary-gets.html
Here did those vehicles go? Who stole them? Take a guess. Arizona is the
temporary home of 500,000 illegal aliens. They cost Arizona taxpayers over $1
billion annually in services for schools, medical care, welfare anchor babies,
loss of tax base and prisons. Illegals use those vehicles for smuggling more
people and drugs from around the world into our country. When the vehicles are
recovered, they are smashed-up wrecks in the desert. If not found, they have
new owners south of the border as thieves drive the cars through the desert and
into Mexico as easily as you drive your kids to soccer practice. THAT’S how
porous our borders are!
ALARMING!
HERITAGE FOUNDATION:
AMNESTY WILL ALLOW 100
MILLION
MORE ILLEGALS
MORE ILLEGALS
Illegals are a crime tidal wave as it is!
THE CONSPIRACY:
The Democrat Party and the Mexican Fascist Party
of LA RAZA…. Partnered to finish off white American middle class.
HOW MEXICO KILLED AMERICA FROM BORDER to OPEN
BORDER…. By invitation of the Democrat Party
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/10/how-mexico-killed-america-from-border.html
WARNING!
VERY GRAPHIC IMAGES
OF AMERICA UNDER LA RAZA MEX OCCUPATION:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/10/america-la-raza-mexicos-wide-open.html
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S
SURRENDER OF OUR BORDERS TO LA RAZA, AND THE MEX
DRUG CARTELS.
Even
though it has gone virtually unreported by corporate media, Breitbart News has
extensively documented the Clintons’ longstanding support for “open
borders.” Interestingly, as the Los Angeles Times observed
in 2007, the Clinton’s praise for globalization and open borders frequently
comes when they are speaking before a wealthy foreign audiences and donors.
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