Guest Post by Joe Guzzardi
In his State of the Union address, President Trump made clear his disgust with sanctuary state California. During the Trump administration’s first three years, the Department of Justice was unable to convert its multiple threats to California and other blatant sanctuary havens to withhold funding. In March 2018, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions traveled to Sacramento to address several hundred California law enforcement officers. Sessions defended the White House’s lawsuit against California’s sanctuary practices, and correctly noted that federal law is the nation’s “supreme law.” Former Gov. Jerry Brown quickly demonized Sessions, and accused him of waging war against California.
The first round went to California as the state blatantly ignored warnings, and the feds failed to use its full power to force Brown and his equally contemptuous AG Xavier Becerra to comply. Under California’s permissive laws, the state – home to an estimated 2.5 million illegal aliens – protects illegal immigrants by limiting state and municipal cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
For the ensuing two years, California’s illegal sanctuary status continued. ICE only apprehended a fraction of the number of illegals in California versus the number arrested in Texas. For example, the Los Angeles ICE field office averaged only about 35 criminally charged arrests monthly compared to 300 per month for Dallas in non-sanctuary state Texas.
According to Pew, Los Angeles metro has twice as many illegal aliens as the Dallas metro area which means that Los Angeles ICE doesn’t arrest thousands of criminal aliens. Nationwide in 2018, ICE issued detainers for criminal aliens collectively responsible for 2,500 murders, nearly 30 percent of the nation’s 9,049 homicide arrests. More than 3 million aliens with criminal records currently live in the U.S.
Regardless of the feckless, hallow sanctuary defenses that brazen sanctuary advocates put forward, the aggregate statistics are shocking and indefensible. Earlier this month, Orange County (CA) Sheriff Don Barnes announced that 1,500 illegal aliens with detainers were released in 2019. Of those, 238 were re-arrested for committing new preventable crimes, including assault and battery, rape and robbery. The Immigration Reform website found that the recidivism rate among criminal aliens is 25 percent. Nevertheless, during the last three years, the number of sanctuary cities has doubled.
Individual victims’ stories are heartbreaking. As part of his SOU address, President Trump referenced Junior “Gustavo” Garcia-Ruiz, a repeat illegal alien offender with previous arrests for assault, robbery and drug offenses, who was charged with murdering Tulare County resident Rocky Jones. On December 18, 2018, at a local gas station, Garcia-Ruiz shot Jones in the face several times. Garcia-Ruiz was incarcerated just days before he murdered Jones, and he also committed multiple other crimes within a 24-hour period. Yet despite Garcia-Ruiz’s numerous prior arrests and earlier deportations, the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office ignored the ICE detainer. Later during the same month that he murdered Jones, Garcia-Ruiz died during a police chase.
After telling Jones’ story, President Trump urged Congress to pass legislation that would allow sanctuary city victims to sue government officials who violate federal immigration laws. North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis promptly introduced S. 2059, the Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act, that would give local officials immunity for assisting federal immigration officers and would also allow Americans to pursue legal action against sanctuary cities.
S. 2059 is all well and good. But legislation that empowers the federal government to swiftly act against sanctuary cities and their irresponsible leaders is already on the books. 8 USC 1324 states that a person who knowingly “conceals, harbors, or shields from detection” illegal aliens is punishable by up to ten years in prison.
The time to end mollycoddling the more than 564 sanctuary cities and ten sanctuary states is over. Not a single tangible reason exists to tolerate American taxpayers and citizens funding the costly, craven sanctuary city fallout with money and lives.
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Yeah, California’s sanctuary laws and policy are stupid and wrong, but they are legally entitled to do what they are doing. Nothing is quite as aggravating as so-called conservatives toeing the Lefty line that anything Washington wants to do trumps State’s rights. (pun intended)
You don’t see these same hypocrites defend things like federally imposed abortion policy trumping State laws. Be consistent, for fuck’s sake!
Once again, punks told ya so 40 years ago…
I am Governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles and never frowns
Soon I will be president
Carter power will soon go ‘way
I will be Führer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school
Your kids will meditate in school
California Über Alles
California Über Alles
Über Alles California
Über Alles California
Zen fascists will control you
Hundred percent natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face
Close your eyes, can’t happen here
Big Bro’ on white horse is near
The hippies won’t come back, you say
Mellow out or you will pay
Mellow out or you will pay
California Über Alles
California Über Alles
Über Alles California
Über Alles California
Now it is nineteen eighty-four
Knock-knock at your front door
It’s the suede denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece
Come quietly to the camp
You’d look nice as a drawstring lamp
Don’t you worry, it’s only a shower
For your clothes, here’s a pretty flower
Die on organic poison gas
Serpent’s egg’s already hatched
You will croak, you little clown
When you mess with President Brown
When you mess with President Brown
California Über Alles
California Über Alles
Über Alles California
Über Alles California
Why does it seem, 40 years later, that punk rock was the only reasonable grown up in the room?
Do the same rules apply to commi-fornia dictating all their crap to the other states? Just asking.
Actually, if you’d LIVED in California as long as I have, you’d know that it was CALIFORNIA that was INFECTED by people who CAME HERE from “the other states…” Just sayin’…
I’m sticking with “misappropration” (THEFT) of taxpayer dollars to buy the votes of illegal aliens, which is what California, and the DNC are doing. You don’t need to go any further to get the perps thrown into jail, and the illegals DEPORTED.
“legally entitled to do what they are doing”
no. given the “full faith and credit” clause that would mean california law drives national immigration law and that other states would have to accept california’s welfare invaders as full citizens. just not the way it’s done.
Immigration is a federal issue, so CA cannot use State’s Rights as an excuse.
Well, sure, but that doesn’t mean California has to help them. Again, I think CA is wrong on this, but not cooperating with the Feds is a legal option.
and withholding discretionary federal money is also a legal option.
A ship struck a reef and sank and in one of the lifeboats were three men, a Mexican, a Russian and a Texan.
After drifting for a while, the Russian reaches into his bag, pulls out a vodka bottle, chugs it down and throws the empty into the sea. He then declares: “In Russia, vwe have all the wodka vwe can drink!”
The Mexican sees this and whips out his own bottle of tequila, chugs it down, and tosses the empty into the sea. He then shouts: ” In Mehico, we have plenty tequila we can dreeenk!”
The Texan reached into his saddlebag, pulls out his .44 Peacemaker, and shoots the Mexican, then throws him into the sea.
He then looks at the frightened Russian and sez: “In Texas, we have plenty of Mexicans.”
I’ve also heard other variants on this joke! LOL
Seven minute video on the criminal lawyer obstructionists still infecting the DOJ / FBI that MUST be cleaned out. If Barr will not fire their arrogant asses, FIRE him and get Trey Gowdy or some other kick ass guy to GET IT DONE.
Gowdy didn’t do shit during his time in congress except run his mouth. Uniparty deep state assholes in Washington. I have heard enough talk. I want some action.
Not another Gowdy-grilling.
That would sting.
This is the #1 (EC, that’s numero uno to you) reason I voted for Trump. When does it pay off?
The #1 reason I voted for Trump wears a pantsuit.
At least the Garcia-Ruiz story had a happy ending!
I truly hope Trump comes down on Sacramento for what it’s doing. I live in California. There are MILLIONS of us who would welcome the help in dealing with what passes for a legislature here! We would truly appreciate HELP from our FELLOW AMERICANS instead of the usual “I hope California falls into the Pacific” crap we are getting!
“FELLOW AMERICANS”
well … they don’t see themselves as americans. they see themselves as themselves. sure they live here, take advantage of the nation others have built, see that nation as like the sky they live under and the earth they walk on, something that’s just here for them – but they see themselves as above it all, as above everyone else, as just plain ME. so you ask for help and they feel interrupted by a non-sequitur, and you say “fellow americans” and they feel you’re saying “2+2=fish”.
BELIEVE ME; there are more Conservative AMERICANS in California than in several “flyover” states… COMBINED. The Left wing got hold of the legislature with its “jungle primary” system, and that was all she wrote for our voices. Anyone who lives here will back me up on that. Don’t worry though, as illegal aliens are invading, stealing, and steering one state after another. ‘Won’t be long until yours falls victim to this invasion. We tried to warn you. We asked for your help. What we got was “I hope your state falls into the Pacific…”
…And people are worried about Russian meddling…
As I saw it happening commi-fornia was our first corona virus. Most of the socialists/marxists left commi-fornia only to infect the rest of the flyover states. Not only that but, who then elected moon beam to be governor again? Just and observation.
“there are more Conservative AMERICANS in California than in several “flyover” states… COMBINED”
I know. we’ll have to stand up at some point.
sometimes the way to stop something is to let it happen. send all illegals to california, and refuse to bail out california from the consequences.
I agree with you on this one Gman. Two thumbs up.
No need to send anyone anywhere. The consequences will be evident over time without any proactive steps being taken.
Illegals and immigrants are wise enough to head to Sanctuary States. I see it in NJ myself. They gravitate to places where their children get good educations at taxpayer expense, and changing the demographics. In ten years or so the township I live in will be populated with low income minorities, Hasidic Jews, and retiree pensioners sucking the tit of the Nanny State as middle-class earners go elsewhere. A severe financial event will provide the tipping point and these economic locusts will find themselves in a serious crisis, looking to sustain themselves at each others expense and having nothing left. It’s going to happen eventually and the social repercussions will be brutal.
I will be looking on, disinclined to lift a finger, except to point and laugh, telling them “you had it coming”.
A 10.2 would fix most of Americas problems, just sayin
dunno. if la and san fran went down and could not get enough aid from the feds, they’d appeal to china, which would happily dump several million chinese and a few divisions into cali as an immediate initial advance force.
I don’t see anything happening, but wasted money, posturing and judges halting the execution of laws by judicial fiat. I’ll be surprised if even one of the lawbreakers involved with harboring aliens is prosecuted.
Trump will not even prosecute felons in his own DOJ. What makes us have confidence he will take on California. He is a toothless tiger at best and a Trojan horse at least.
Build the wall around Kommiefornia and make them pay for it!
My take is that law enforcement in sanctuary jurisdictions would rather spend time at the doughnut shop than doing the job they are getting paid to do. To say “we are too busy” to do a little extra paper work and let other agencies know when we are letting the bad guys go is pretty lame.
Not a single tangible reason exists to tolerate American taxpayers and citizens funding the costly, craven sanctuary city fallout with money and lives. – On the contrary, there is a perfectly good reason to encourage illegal aliens to enter the U.S. and be coddled by traitorous libtard city officials, who are somehow always given a pass and are never hauled out of city hall in cuffs.
Well, what could possibly be that reason, you ask? It’s really very simple. Those who rule over us; the financial wizards who have stacked our debt to stratospheric heights, have deemed it a necessity to continue a constant influx of illegals into this nation for a very specific purpose; that is, to continually increase the debt. Illegals require food, shelter and clothing just like everyone else and where are they going to get the money to pay for their goods?
Credit, or rather credit expansion, which enables those who have been mystically given the power of the printing press to continue to expand the debt exponentially, because of a steady stream for loan demand.
If the loan demand is ever lessened, the whole house of cards implodes and all of the confetti that’s been printed in the last one hundred years goes up in flames like last year’s Christmas tree.
That is why no one will ever seriously enforce immigration laws, or get tough with sanctuary cities, because to do so will end the game. Trump has been no doubt informed of this as part of his “orientation” and selection process.
Look folks, we’re merely sharecroppers on the plantation, but the bankers own the land and everything on it, by nefariously plotting to exchange real goods and production for fiat currency hot off of the press. Get it? It’s one big giant fraudulent system and they must keep it going to hold their positions as masters of the plantation.
The welfare state is required to make sure the parasites streaming in from all over the globe are made comfortable and are able to buy the necessities of life; albeit with your hard earned tax payments.
Wasn’t it said that there’s a sucker born every minute, well, in the U.S. there’s millions of them and they’re referred to as the “American taxpayer”. Oh yeh, and Trump’s going to drain the swamp- good luck with that one too, skippy.
Trump has no interest in curbing any type of immigration.