On Saturday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continued its pushback against the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-why-no-one-pointing-out-sanctuary-cities-josh-hammer">lawless</a> scourge of sanctuary cities — this time focusing upon the particularly recalcitrant government of Mayor Bill de Blasio&#8217;s New York City.
ICE &#8220;served four immigration subpoenas Friday on the New York Department of Corrections (NYDOC) requesting information on multiple illegal aliens who were criminally arrested in New York City, and yet under New York’s non-cooperation policies officials have refused to honor ICE detainers or even provide ICE with information about the release dates of criminal alien public safety threats,&#8221; the agency stated via <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-issues-subpoenas-obtain-information-refused-under-ny-sanctuary-policies">press release</a>. &#8220;Issuance of these immigration subpoenas was necessary because the NYDOC has continued to ignore ICE’s requests for information and cooperation.&#8221;
&#8220;ICE uses statutorily-authorized immigration subpoenas to obtain information as part of investigations regarding potential removable aliens,&#8221; the release continued. &#8220;ICE has not historically needed to use its lawful authority to issue these subpoenas to obtain information from other law enforcement agencies as most law enforcement agencies throughout the country willingly provide ICE with information regarding aliens arrested for crimes in the interest of public safety.&#8221;
&#8220;ICE is using every tool available to obtain information regarding the whereabouts and other relevant information regarding removable aliens from jurisdictions that chose to, or are unable to, cooperate with ICE,&#8221; the agency wrote, before providing details about the four criminal aliens — ranging from age 21 to 38 — about whom it recently sought information from NYDOC.
&#8220;Like any law enforcement agency, we are used to modifying our tactics as criminals shift their strategies; but it’s disheartening that we must change our practices and jump through so many hoops with partners who are restricted by sanctuary laws passed by politicians with a dangerous agenda,&#8221; lamented Henry Lucero, acting deputy executive associate director for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, as quoted in the ICE press release.
Just yesterday, The Daily Wire&#8217;s Hank Berrien <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-releases-list-of-9-violent-illegal-immigrants-freed-by-ny-sanctuary-policy-plus-6-more-who-could-be-released">reported</a> that ICE has also released a list of nine illegal aliens whom ICE claims have been &#8220;released in New York communities&#8221; due to the metropolis&#8217;s sanctuary policies. &#8220;ICE also named six additional illegal immigrants who may be released, some of whom have been charged with murder and child rape,&#8221; Berrien noted.
As <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ice-illegal-immigrants-freed-by-new-york-citys-sanctuary-city">reported</a> by Fox News, acting ICE Director Matthew Albence &#8220;cited statistics saying that last year ICE lodged 7,526 detainers via its New York field office. Those individuals accounted for 17,873 criminal convictions and 6,500 criminal charges. He went on to say that those charges and convictions include over 200 homicides, over 500 robberies, over 1,000 sexual offenses, over 1,000 weapons offenses, and over 3,500 assaults. However, only about 10 detainers were honored by the city, officials said.&#8221;
In a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-why-no-one-pointing-out-sanctuary-cities-josh-hammer">Daily Wire op-ed</a> last July, I argued that most sanctuary jurisdictions flagrantly violate federal law — and in particular, <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1373">8 U.S.C. § 1373(a)</a>, which provides: &#8220;Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, a Federal, State, or local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the [Department of Homeland Security] information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.&#8221; I opined:
<blockquote>It is true that the U.S. Supreme Court’s so-called “<a href="https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this-day-the-supreme-court-reinforces-the-10th-amendment">anti-commandeering doctrine</a>,” most famously articulated in the 1992 case of <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/1991/91-543">New York v. United States</a> and the 1997 case of <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/1996/95-1478">Printz v. United States</a>, stands for the proposition that the federal government cannot forcibly “commandeer” state governments to help the federal government enforce federal law. As Justice Scalia <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/95-1478.ZO.html">wrote in Printz</a>, “The Federal Government may neither issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States’ officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program.”
But a plain reading of 8 U.S.C. § 1373(a) does not seem to countenance a violation of the anti-commandeering doctrine. Under § 1373(a), state and local officials are not coerced into “enforc[ing] a federal regulatory program.” Rather, under the text of the statute, all state and local officials are prohibited from doing is issuing a “restrict[ion] [upon the] sending to, or receiving from, the [Department of Homeland Security] information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.” Put simply, the issue at hand in § 1373(a) is not federal commandeering of state actors to enforce a federal program; rather, the issue is the prevention of state and local officials from openly defying and subverting federal law. And the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause plainly forbids the states from openly defying and subverting federal law. The Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, as applied to § 1373(a), therefore prohibits state and local governments from shielding a removable illegal alien from ICE when ICE issues a detainer request on the alien.</blockquote>

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[This piece has been updated to include broader information about Standish’s lecture. A parenthetical has been inserted into the body of the article, and Standish’s reply to my email has been added at the bottom. The title has also been altered.]
In October, Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan, hosted a lecture by James Standish, who “most recently served as the communications director for the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists,” according to the university’s <a href="https://www.andrews.edu/agenda/53632">website</a>.
Andrews University is a Seventh-day Adventist college. Though students were not required to attend Standish’s lecture, they are <a href="https://cmspreview.andrews.edu/services/studentlife/cocurriculum/attendance_accountability.html">required</a> to “attend 30 co-curricular programs a semester,” of which Standish’s lecture was one of many.
During the latter portion of his lecture, Standish called for students to offer their churches as “sanctuaries” for illegal immigrants.
“In the United States, we have a lot of people who are looking for a home. Many of them have found a home here in the United States, but they face constant danger of being deported,” Standish said in a video available on Andrews University’s YouTube channel, as reported by <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14056">Campus Reform</a>.
After noting that he himself is an immigrant, he said that many other immigrants (legal  and illegal) don’t have the ability to successfully engage in the “complicated &#8230; system.”
“Many of the people who are now undocumented could have regularized their citizenship at one point or another if they were like me, a lawyer, and understood the system, they had money for a lawyer, if they spoke English better, had greater facility, a thousand things – but they were poor. Not all of them, but many,” Standish stated.
“They didn&#8217;t do something that&#8217;s a crime of evil or hatred. They just wanted to stay here and build their lives, and for many years they went ahead and built those lives,” he added.
Standish then spoke about the “beautiful, wonderful, amazing” illegal immigrants who allegedly approach him after he gives lectures, and suggested that aside from “animus,” there is no reason the United States should be deporting them.
He said that he was approached by a “church entity” to take a look at the law in light of “members being deported.”
<blockquote>A church entity asked me to look into this because of our members being deported, and one of the things I found is [that the United States] ICE service has a policy, and it&#8217;s actually a policy formed from the Bible, believe it or not. You see in the Bible, there is something called sanctuary cities. Then, in the English Common Law, they developed that to have a sanctuary within a church for people who were accused of a crime. And today, except in unusual circumstances, ICE will not raid a church&#8230;
This is my challenge to you. Why not open up your church as a sanctuary? Why not say to people who have good reason to be afraid, &#8220;If you are afraid, come and live in our church. We will turn our sanctuary into a real sanctuary.&#8221;
&#8230;People are being hurt right now across this country. Many of them are our brothers and our sisters, and we stand by with our churches empty when they could be sanctuary sanctuaries.</blockquote>
[It should be noted that this was only a portion of a longer lecture pertaining to living one’s Christian faith. Standish also talked about the horrors of abortion, as well as extreme poverty. This is to say that his “conclusion” in which the Underground Railroad and Nazi Germany are discussed, which you will read below, encompasses not only his position on illegal immigration, but on the other topics discussed earlier in his lecture]
Standish concluded by seemingly making a comparison between silence on the illegal immigrant issue (as well as what he discussed prior) to that of silence regarding segregation, slavery, and Nazi Germany:
<blockquote>Conclusion – many of us look back on history and we say if we were alive during the time of the slave time, we would’ve been part of the Underground Railroad. &#8220;Oh yeah, that&#8217;d be me.&#8221; Really? Would you? You could lose your house; you could go to jail. Are you serious? Would you do that?&#8230;
You would say, &#8220;Hey, but during the Nazis &#8230; I would have been rescuing Jews.” Would you? Would you really? And risk being hauled out by the Gestapo? Sent to a concentration camp yourself? Would you do it?</blockquote>
Standish added that people always say they would have “looked down the police dogs and &#8230; taken the fire hoses” if they were in the 1960s with Martin Luther King Jr.
“Would you? Honestly, look at yourself in your hearts, and if you wouldn’t, and if you couldn’t, if you refused to, what does your Christianity mean?” he asked.
<blockquote>And if you’re silent now, mark my words, you would’ve been silent then when the stakes were a lot higher. Don’t kid yourself.</blockquote>
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According to one of the <a href="https://www.ice.gov/ero/enforcement/sensitive-loc">FAQ sections</a> of the official ICE website, “places of worship, such as churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples” are considered “sensitive locations.”
“Enforcement actions,” in which ICE will typically not engage in a sensitive location, include “apprehensions, arrests, interviews, or searches, and for purposes of immigration enforcement only, surveillance.”
Regarding enforcement actions at “sensitive locations,” the FAQ states: “Enforcement actions may occur at sensitive locations in limited circumstances, but will generally be avoided. ICE officers and agents may conduct an enforcement action at a sensitive location if there are exigent circumstances, if other law enforcement actions have led officers to a sensitive location, or with prior approval from an appropriate supervisory official.”
The Daily Wire reached out to James Standish via social media to ask him if he believes it was appropriate to evoke Nazi Germany and the Underground Railroad in order to draw a moral parallel to the plight faced by undocumented immigrants and those who could shelter them.
Standish replied:
<blockquote>Thanks for your note. I admire your stated desire to spark “intellectually honest” discussion. My suggestion is that you watch the speech – it only takes half an hour. As you’ll see, the current headline is misleading. It is far easier to proclaim intellectual honesty than to practice it, but if you desire to do so, you’ll edit the headline.</blockquote>
Although I had indeed watched the speech in full, I rewatched it in order to note any potential blind spots in my reporting. While I don’t believe my headline was “misleading,” I will give Standish the benefit of the doubt, given that his lecture was about more than illegal immigrants. As such, I have altered the title of the piece to allow readers to decide for themselves the appropriateness of Standish’s language choices in his conclusion.
I have also included a parenthetical before the “conclusion” portion noting the wider array of topics discussed in the lecture.

Migrants.

WATCH: Lecturer At Andrews University Suggests Students Make Their Churches ‘Sanctuaries’ For Illegal Immigrants

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An illegal alien has been arrested in Montgomery County, Maryland, for alleged sex crimes. This is the seventh such case involving an illegal alien since the end of July.
&#8220;Emilio Carrasco-Hernandez, 37, of Hyattsville, is currently charged with second-degree rape, sex abuse of a minor, third-degree sex offense and fourth-degree sex offense,&#8221; ABC 7&#8217;s Kevin Lewis <a href="https://wjla.com/news/local/man-rape-15-year-old-md-girl-suspect-repeat-immigration-violator">reported</a>. &#8220;According to ICE, Carrasco-Hernandez is a Honduran national living in the U.S. illegally. In April 2017, a federal immigration judge deported the then 35-year-old. He later illegally re-entered the U.S. on an unknown date and by unknown means.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">NEW: 37yo Emilio Carrasco-Hernandez raped a 15yo girl in a Silver Spring home they shared, cops say.
The victim had &#8220;stinging&#8221; pain after the attack.
This is at least the seventh undocumented immigrant arrested in Montgomery County, Md. on rape/sex abuse charges since July 25. <a href="https://t.co/Twu3xw7n9w">pic.twitter.com/Twu3xw7n9w</a>
— Kevin Lewis (@ABC7Kevin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC7Kevin/status/1167791863681695750?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Lewis has reported extensively on crimes perpetrated by illegal aliens in Montgomery County, which also has a heavy presence of MS-13 gang activity.
Late this week, Lewis reported that Nestor Lopez-Guzman, a 21-year-old Salvadoran national illegally residing in the U.S., had allegedly molested a 12-year-old girl and her younger brother.
Lopez-Guzman reportedly told authorities that touching a young boy&#8217;s genitals was a &#8220;cultural joke&#8221; and that it was &#8220;common in El Salvador.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">MORE: According to detectives, Lopez-Guzman confessed to touching the elementary school-age boy&#8217;s genitals, claiming it was a &#8220;cultural joke&#8221; that&#8217;s &#8220;common in El Salvador.&#8221;
Lopez-Guzman said it&#8217;s a way for men to poke fun at one another.
The 21yo is out on bond awaiting trial. <a href="https://t.co/Xvg4l0dkCK">pic.twitter.com/Xvg4l0dkCK</a>
— Kevin Lewis (@ABC7Kevin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC7Kevin/status/1167101531298119680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Since July 25, Montgomery County Police have arrested at least seven confirmed undocumented immigrants for alleged rapes and sexual assaults,&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/illegal-immigrant-rape-seventh-six-weeks">reported</a>. &#8220;Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich signed an executive order last month designating the county a &#8216;sanctuary&#8217; jurisdiction.&#8221;
The executive order prohibits all county agencies and law enforcement officials from cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. Usually, the only areas that are designated as &#8216;sanctuaries&#8217; are controlled by Democrats, which oftentimes puts the public in harm&#8217;s way because offenders are released into the public versus being deported.
One of the more heinous stories that Lewis reported on over the last month involved two illegal aliens who allegedly raped a young girl.
&#8220;29yo Mauricio Berrera-Navidad of Damascus, Md. + 28yo Carlos Palacios-Amaya of Gaithersburg, Md. are accused of raping an 11-year-old Germantown, Md. girl,&#8221; Lewis tweeted. &#8220;MoCo Police say the men (both friends with the victim&#8217;s older brother) committed the rapes on separate occasions.&#8221;
&#8220;One suspect orally, vaginally and anally raped the middle schooler on multiple occasions, authorities allege,&#8221; Lewis added. &#8220;The victim recalled one instance where that same suspect &#8216;used his cell phone to video record the two of them having sex,&#8217; police noted.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">STORY: One suspect orally, vaginally and anally raped the middle schooler on multiple occasions, authorities allege.
The victim recalled one instance where that same suspect &#8220;used his cell phone to video record the two of them having sex,&#8221; police noted.<a href="https://t.co/GyiCuwwt0B">https://t.co/GyiCuwwt0B</a>
— Kevin Lewis (@ABC7Kevin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC7Kevin/status/1161297587384782848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Seventh Illegal Alien Accused Of Sex Crime In Sanctuary County Over Last Month

Securing the nation&#8217;s borders and protecting the nation&#8217;s sovereignty against those who would violate it is, perhaps above anything else, the singular <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48335/hammer-federal-government-has-no-more-important-josh-hammer">most important function of the federal government</a>. After all, in the 2012 Supreme Court case of Arizona v. United States, Justice Antonin Scalia powerfully <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/11-182">described</a> &#8220;the power to exclude from the sovereign’s territory people who have no right to be there&#8221; as &#8220;the defining characteristic of sovereignty.&#8221; Illegal immigration, furthermore, manifests itself across <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49616/hammer-why-no-one-discussing-drug-trafficking-josh-hammer">countless issues</a> affecting the body politic: National security, crime, drugs, public health, cultural assimilation, and the health of the public fisc.
But what happens when the federal government&#8217;s unwillingness to defend its sovereignty is coupled with the federal government&#8217;s unwillingness to defend the <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlevi">Supremacy Clause of Article VI</a> of the U.S. Constitution — that the &#8220;Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof &#8230; shall be the supreme law of the land?&#8221;
Every single day across America, sundry sanctuary jurisdictions harbor illegal aliens — often violent <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/ice-guard-dangerous-drunk-driving/">criminal</a> ones — and fail to honor <a href="https://www.ice.gov/detainers">detainer requests</a> from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). As ICE explains on its <a href="https://www.ice.gov/detainers">website</a>, detainers &#8220;provide notice of [ICE&#8217;s] intent to assume custody of an individual detained in federal, state, or local custody&#8221; and are typically &#8220;placed on aliens arrested on criminal charges for whom ICE possesses probable cause to believe &#8230; are removable from the United States.&#8221; The results of local law enforcement agencies failing to honor ICE detainers, from a public safety and sovereignty protection perspective, are often <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/despite-horrific-bambi-larson-murder-santa-clara-county-continuing-sanctuary-status/">predictably disastrous</a>. But what seems to be an under-covered aspect of the sanctuary cities phenomenon is how blatantly illegal the practice is under existing federal statute.
As Daniel Horowitz helpfully <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/oregon-sanctuaries-force-ice-apprehend-alleged-child-sex-offender-courthouse/">points out</a> at Conservative Review, it is imperative to consider the text of <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1373">8 U.S.C. § 1373(a)</a>:
<blockquote>Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, a Federal, State, or local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the [Department of Homeland Security] information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.</blockquote>
It is true that the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s so-called &#8220;<a href="https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this-day-the-supreme-court-reinforces-the-10th-amendment">anti-commandeering doctrine</a>,&#8221; most famously articulated in the 1992 case of <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/1991/91-543">New York v. United States</a> and the 1997 case of <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/1996/95-1478">Printz v. United States</a>, stands for the proposition that the federal government cannot forcibly &#8220;commandeer&#8221; state governments to help the federal government enforce federal law. As Justice Scalia <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/95-1478.ZO.html">wrote in Printz</a>, &#8220;The Federal Government may neither issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States’ officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program.&#8221;
But a plain reading of 8 U.S.C. § 1373(a) does not seem to countenance a violation of the anti-commandeering doctrine. Under § 1373(a), state and local officials are not coerced into &#8220;enforc[ing] a federal regulatory program.&#8221; Rather, under the text of the statute, all state and local officials are prohibited from doing is issuing a &#8220;restrict[ion] [upon the] sending to, or receiving from, the [Department of Homeland Security] information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.&#8221; Put simply, the issue at hand in § 1373(a) is not federal commandeering of state actors to enforce a federal program; rather, the issue is the prevention of state and local officials from openly defying and subverting federal law. And the Constitution&#8217;s Supremacy Clause plainly forbids the states from openly defying and subverting federal law. The Constitution&#8217;s Supremacy Clause, as applied to § 1373(a), therefore prohibits state and local governments from shielding a removable illegal alien from ICE when ICE issues a detainer request on the alien.
The Trump administration, despite a <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-has-not-built-a-single-mile-of-new-border-fence-after-30-months-in-office">mixed (at best) record</a> on actually effectuating the president&#8217;s signature campaign item and building the wall, is now doubling down and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/finish-that-wall-trump-seeks-to-turn-his-failure-to-build-the-wall-into-campaign-rallying-cry/2019/02/16/3fbaebd4-3138-11e9-ac6c-14eea99d5e24_story.html">campaigning hard on the immigration issue</a> in advance of the president&#8217;s 2020 re-election campaign. As both a political and a policy matter, wouldn&#8217;t it then make sense for the administration to actually try to enforce federal law that is already on the books against the pervasive problem of sanctuary city malfeasance?

HAMMER: Why Is No One Pointing Out That Sanctuary Cities Blatantly Violate This Federal Law?

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Fulfilling a promise he made when he successfully campaigned for governor in 2018, on Friday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will sign into law a bill that will ban sanctuary cities in Florida. The bill, which was passed on May 2 by both the Florida House and Senate, was sent to DeSantis on Thursday.
<a href="https://www.orlandosentinel.com/politics/os-ne-desantis-sanctuary-cities-signing-20190613-dijvph4ewbhn5pqnnb2ew4ygta-story.html">The Orlando Sentinel</a> reported that DeSantis spokeswoman Helen Ferre sent the Sentinel an email stating: &#8220;Earlier this year, Governor DeSantis asked the Florida Legislature to present him with meaningful legislation to uphold the rule of law and ensure that no city or county jurisdiction can get in the way of Florida&#8217;s cooperation with our federal partners to enforce immigration law. Public safety is paramount and local law enforcement agencies can and should work with the federal government to ensure that accountability and justice are one in our state.&#8221;
The Sentinel noted that supporters of the bill have urged local governments and law-enforcement agencies to cooperate with federal immigration detainers and share information with federal immigration authorities once illegal immigrants have been detained.
The bill, <a href="https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/168/BillText/er/PDF">SB 168</a>, flatly states, &#8220;A state entity, law enforcement agency, or local governmental entity may not adopt or have in effect a sanctuary policy.&#8221;
The bill explains exactly what that entails:
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&#8220;Sanctuary policy&#8221; means a law, policy, practice, procedure, or custom adopted or allowed by a state entity or local governmental entity which prohibits or impedes a law enforcement agency from complying with 8 U.S.C. s. 1373 or which prohibits or impedes a law enforcement agency from communicating or cooperating with a federal immigration agency so as to limit such law enforcement agency in, or prohibit the agency from:
(a) Complying with an immigration detainer;
(b) Complying with a request from a federal immigration agency to notify the agency before the release of an inmate or detainee in the custody of the law enforcement agency;
(c) Providing a federal immigration agency access to an inmate for interview;
(d) Participating in any program or agreement authorized under section 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. s. 1357; or
(e) Providing a federal immigration agency with an inmate&#8217;s incarceration status or release date.
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In May, DeSantis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47372/desantis-warns-dont-drop-illegal-immigrants-hank-berrien">warned</a> the U.S. Border Patrol not to transfer illegal immigrants to Broward and Palm Beach counties. Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and Broward Mayor Mark Bogen had stated that U.S. Border Patrol said that two planeloads of immigrants would be transferred to those counties each week, roughly 500 per month to each county. DeSantis said he was going to communicate with President Trump, according to the <a href="https://www.orlandosentinel.com/politics/fl-ne-ron-desantis-oppose-migrants-south-florida-20190517-st5bey2pofgdlmij7uommyyugq-story.html">Orlando Sentinel</a>, asserting, &#8220;Nothing&#8217;s concrete. There&#8217;s been no migrants brought, released, in Florida. This was not something that came down from the White House. This is something that came out of the agency. Sometimes this stuff happens. Ultimately this is something I&#8217;m going to have to talk to the president about. We cannot accommodate in Florida just dumping unlawful migrants into our state. I think it&#8217;ll tax our resources, schools and health care, law enforcement, state agencies.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/florida-gov-ron-desantis-expected-to-sign-measure-banning-sanctuary-cities-on-friday">Fox News</a> noted, &#8220;Nine states &#8212; they are Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas &#8212; have passed laws requiring law enforcement to cooperate with ICE.&#8221;

DeSantis Follows Through: Will Sign Bill Today Banning Sanctuary Cities

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It might surprise many Americans to learn that, per <a href="https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-publications/annual-reports-and-sourcebooks/2018/FY18-Annual-Report-and-Sourcebook.pdf">Department of Justice statistics</a>, a whopping 43% of all federal offenses are committed by non-citizens. Tragically, as then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/dhs-doj-report-thousands-of-avoidable-crimes-committed-by-foreign-nationals-in-texas-alone/">put it last year</a>, every single crime committed by an illegal alien is, by definition, a readily preventable crime:
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Every crime committed by an illegal alien is, by definition, a crime that should have been prevented. It is outrageous that tens of thousands of Americans are dying every year because of the drugs and violence brought over our borders illegally and that taxpayers have been forced, year after year, to pay millions of dollars to incarcerate tens of thousands of illegal aliens.
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As The Daily Wire has recently <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/47569/teenage-girl-kidnapping-suspect-seattle-suburb-josh-hammer">reported</a>, the state of Washington has been experiencing an upsurge in crime committed by illegal aliens. Earlier this month, The Seattle Times <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/burien-man-charged-with-luring-and-assault-accused-of-trying-to-drag-a-14-year-old-girl-into-his-pickup">noted</a> how a 51-year-old Seattle-area man charged with luring and second-degree assault after he allegedly tried to force a 14-year-old girl into his pickup truck turned out to be a twice-deported illegal alien. Seattle-based radio host Dori Monson <a href="https://mynorthwest.com/1390219/dori-illegal-immigrant-burien-girl/">opined</a> on the lawless sanctuary city laws that mollycoddle criminal aliens throughout Washington state:
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We have the most lax laws. We are attracting drug vagrants, and we are attracting illegal immigrants. We are seeing the ramifications of it on the streets with all of the women who are being sexually assaulted, from the woman at the Ballard car dealership to Kelly Herron at Golden Gardens, to this teenage girl in Burien.
Washington is the best place to be if you&#8217;re an illegal immigrant. We&#8217;ve got sanctuary everything and a governor who tells you you&#8217;re a pillar of the community when you come into this country illegally and commit crimes. What a great place to come and abduct 14-year-old girls.
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Now, as The Daily Caller <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/23/washington-sanctuary-inslee-2020/">reported</a> last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has taken it upon itself to hone its crosshairs upon and utterly excoriate Washington state&#8217;s lax sanctuary city regime:
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement ripped Washington for becoming the latest state to enact policies that protect illegal immigrants from local law enforcement and federal authorities.
&#8220;ICE maintains that cooperation by local law enforcement is an indispensable component of promoting public safety. It&#8217;s unfortunate that current local and state laws and policies tie the hands of local law enforcement agencies that want and need to work with ICE to promote public safety by holding criminals accountable and providing justice and closure for their victims,&#8221; the agency said Thursday in a statement to The Daily Caller News Foundation. &#8230;
&#8220;Sanctuary policies not only provide a refuge for illegal aliens, but they also shield criminal aliens who prey on people in their own and other communities,&#8221; ICE stated. &#8220;When ICE officers and agents have to go out into the community to proactively locate these aliens, it puts personnel and potentially innocent bystanders at risk.&#8221;
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According to The Daily Caller, &#8220;The newly-enacted legislation largely prohibits local law enforcement from asking about an individual&#8217;s immigration status or place of birth, with an exception if it pertains to a criminal investigation.&#8221;

ICE Tears Into Washington State For Enacting Sanctuary City Policies

Washington

According to a new <a href="https://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/SB54-Report_FINAL.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1g53GfWV6tt5qdd1qI4_I5uZ4zF89iMQk4fDkaiP3oqQNd8jCQBnb0HpM">study</a> from the Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus and the University of Oxford Centre for Criminology-Border Criminologies, California&#8217;s implementation of its &#8220;California Values Act&#8221; sanctuary cities law is not going particularly well. In fact, sheriffs in roughly half the state&#8217;s jurisdictions are actively resisting enforcement of the measure.
Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/resist-calif-cops-sheriffs-ignoring-new-sanctuary-law-blocking-help-for-ice">reports</a>:
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Nearly half of California sheriff departments are protesting a new California law that bars them from helping federal immigration officials find criminal illegal immigrants, according to a new report.
What&#8217;s more, several of the 169 law enforcement agencies in California are challenging former Gov. Jerry Brown&#8217;s bid to hide criminal illegals by letting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to seize the wanted prisoners for deportation and not telling the state. &#8230;
The report from the University of Oxford Centre for Criminology-Border Criminologies reveals what many law enforcement agencies are doing to get around the law. The report is critical of those moves and calls on the state to crack down on agencies that help ICE to find and remove criminal illegals.
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Specifically, according to Bedard, 68 out of 169 sheriff departments considered by the study &#8212; about 40% &#8212; were not in compliance.
Nonetheless, despite nearly half of all sheriff departments not fully complying, the Oxford study still reports that, &#8220;In its first five months from January 2018 to May 2018, [California Values Act] implementation led to a 41% decrease in ICE arrests at local jails compared to the immediately preceding five months from August 2017 to December 2017.&#8221;
The study&#8217;s <a href="https://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/SB54-Report_FINAL.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1g53GfWV6tt5qdd1qI4_I5uZ4zF89iMQk4fDkaiP3oqQNd8jCQBnb0HpM">conclusion</a> took direct aim at the resisting California sheriffs:
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The California Values Act is one of the most expansive sanctuary laws in the country. As a result of implementation of this new law, there has been a notable drop in [law enforcement agency (LEA)]-assisted [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and [Customs and Border Protection] arrests in the state, especially when compared to anti-sanctuary states such as Texas. However, there is much work to be done by the State to bring LEAs into full compliance with SB 54 and to ensure that the law is not undermined through the exploitation of its policy exceptions. At a time when the federal administration has been hostile to immigrant communities and has ramped up immigration arrests, detentions, and deportations, it is imperative that Californians are confident that their local, county, and state government will not work to deport them, their family members, friends, co-workers, and neighbors.
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Nonetheless, Dan Cadman of the conservative Center Immigration Studies had a <a href="https://cis.org/Cadman/Report-Californias-Sanctuary-Law-Bemoans-Noncompliance">different take</a>:
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The practical effects of the [California Values Act] have been disastrous. Many individuals have been needlessly injured or murdered by aliens released to the street by misguided enforcement organizations in the state. Some of the circumstances involved have been brutal and horrific.
Sadly, a number of those slain by illegal aliens released to the streets have been police officers and sheriff&#8217;s deputies (see, e.g., here, and here). Some other lucky few officers have escaped with their lives. One of the illegal aliens (with a long history of prior drug convictions), who was later arrested and tried for the murders, profanely declared he didn&#8217;t &#8220;f-ing regret it&#8221; and went on to threaten the jurors. &#8230;
Bravo! I hope [resisting LEAs] keep on doing it, and that more join them. What&#8217;s that motto on the side of many police cars? Oh, that&#8217;s right, it&#8217;s &#8220;To Serve and Protect&#8221;. What better way to do that than to see alien criminals removed from American communities, instead of releasing them to offend again.
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There is presently an &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45305/huh-border-patrol-stops-prosecuting-first-time-josh-hammer">unprecedented</a>&#8221; migrant influx at the U.S.&#8217;s southern border. President Trump has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45394/hammer-trump-would-be-right-fully-shut-down-us-josh-hammer">threatened</a> to fully close the border in order to attempt to stanch the problem.

Report: Nearly Half Of California Sheriff Departments Are Resisting The State’s Sanctuary Cities Law

Law Enforcement

More than 20 illegal immigrants were arrested in New York last month by federal officials working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), many for violent crimes. An ICE official blamed some of the arrests on New York City&#8217;s &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; policies, though many of the arrests occurred outside the city.
Deportation officers for ICE&#8217;s Enforcement and Removal Office (ERO) working out of the New York Field Office made the arrest, according to <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-more-20-released-new-york-after-detainers-ignored">a press release</a> from the agency, which called &#8220;sanctuary city politics&#8221; unsafe.
&#8220;The sanctuary city politics of this city continue to put the safety of New York residents at risk,&#8221; Thomas R. Decker, field office director for ERO NY, said in the press release. &#8220;We need our elected officials to stop the rhetoric. The fact remains that ICE makes this city safer by removing criminal aliens and public threats off the street so they are unable to reoffend, victimizing our city residents.&#8221;
The agency listed 12 examples of the crimes the illegal immigrants committed, many including violent acts. A Guyanese national was arrested in the Bronx for &#8220;Assault 2nd, Assault 3rd, Reckless Endangerment, Menacing, and Criminal Possession of a Weapon.&#8221; A Mexican national was arrested for robbery. A Spanish national was arrested for assault, harassment, menacing, and possession of stolen property. Another Mexican national was arrested in Manhattan for assault and &#8220;criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation.&#8221; Another Mexican national was arrested in Kew Gardens for assault, injuring an 11-year-old, and harassment. A Colombian national was arrested in Kew Gardens for strangulation, assault, and harassment. A Guatemalan national was arrested in Spring Valley for rape. A Salvadoran national, associated with the violent MS-13 gang, was arrested for DWI (flashback to when Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey said illegal aliens <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43506/watch-bob-menendez-doesnt-think-illegal-immigrants-ashe-schow">shouldn&#8217;t be deported</a> for driving while intoxicated). Another Colombian national was arrested for assault and intent to cause serious physical injury.
Other examples include drug and tax fraud crimes.
In each case, a detainer was issued for the illegal immigrant, yet it was not &#8220;honored,&#8221; and the illegal immigrants were released by local law enforcement, according to the press release.
The press release also included some frightening statistics for the New York Field Office, which covers the &#8220;southernmost 14 counties of New York State.&#8221;
The office made 3,400 arrests in Fiscal Year 2018, and 87% of those arrested had a prior criminal conviction or had criminal charges pending.
In December 2018, ICE conducted a five-day operation in New Jersey that resulted in 105 foreign nationals in the U.S. illegally <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/39188/massive-ice-bust-illegal-aliens-nabs-child-abusers-ashe-schow">being taken into custody</a>. Around 80% of those taken into custody had prior criminal convictions or pending charges, according to ICE. Examples of those individuals also included many arrested for violent crime, child abuse, and internationally wanted criminals, The Daily Wire previously reported.
&#8220;These outstanding results, which were made possible by our officers and law enforcement partners, highlight the tremendous commitment that ICE ERO has to public safety throughout the state,&#8221; John Tsoukaris, Field Office Director of ERO Newark, said in a press release at the time. &#8220;Our focus has been and will continue to be on arrests of illegal aliens who have been convicted of serious crimes or those who pose a threat to public safety.&#8221;
Democrats, including some from the New York delegation, have called for congress to abolish ICE.
Correction: An earlier version of this article was misworded, wrongfully suggesting New York City officials who made the arrest. It was federal officials working for ICE&#8217;s New York Field Office. The original article&#8217;s lede also suggested the illegal immigrants were released &#8220;thanks to the city&#8217;s sanctuary policies.&#8221; While some of the criminals were arrested in New York City, many were arrested in other counties, as the article noted later.

ICE Officials In New York Arrested More Than 20 Illegal Immigrants After Sanctuary City Policies Released Them

Democratic Party

New York

In one of his last speeches as governor of California, Democrat Jerry Brown hit back at critics of his pet &#8220;sanctuary state&#8221; legislation who blame the now-former governor&#8217;s lenient immigration policies for the tragic shooting death of police officer Ronil Singh.
Singh was killed during a routine traffic stop in late December. Singh, a legal immigrant, pulled over a driver he suspected of being under the influence of alcohol, only to find the driver, Gustavo Perez Arriaga, was armed. Arriaga opened fire, killing Singh, and then fled, leading California authorities on a two-day cross-state manhunt.
Arriaga, who was eventually captured along with seven other people who aided and abetted him in eluding police, is an illegal immigrant who was allowed to stay in the state, reportedly because of Brown&#8217;s &#8220;sanctuary state&#8221; policies, even after several arrests and at least two separate DUI convictions, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/jerry-brown-death-of-police-officer-ronil-singh-had-nothing-to-do-with-californias-sanctuary-status">according to the Washington Examiner</a>.
Brown, who has been open about his own pro-immigration sentiments, called the suggestion that Singh died as a result of his &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; policies, a distraction.
&#8220;I think people now are looking to blame somebody because of the terrible things that happened,&#8221; Brown told media, &#8220;but it had nothing to do with the law of California.&#8221;
That&#8217;s not how the law enforcement officials involved in investigating Singh&#8217;s death and bringing his alleged killer to justice see it. Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson, who was in charge of the investigation, was clear in the wake of Arriaga&#8217;s capture &#8212; in the absence of Brown&#8217;s sanctuary state policies, Arriaga would not have been returned to the streets following his several run-ins with police.
&#8220;This is a criminal illegal alien with prior criminal activity that should have been reported to ICE,&#8221; the sheriff told a press conference last week. &#8220;We were prohibited, law enforcement was prohibited because of sanctuary laws, and that led to the encounter with Singh.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m suggesting that the outcome could have been different if law enforcement wasn&#8217;t restricted, prohibited or had their hands tied because of political interference,&#8221; he added.
&#8220;Why are we providing sanctuary for criminals, gang members?&#8221; the sheriff concluded. &#8220;It&#8217;s a conversation we need to have.&#8221;
Christanson pointed directly to a state-level policy that he says &#8220;tied law enforcement&#8217;s hands&#8221; when dealing with Arriaga, even though Arriaga had multiple arrests, had been in jail several times, and had two previous convictions for driving under the influence.
Brown contends that his sanctuary policies allow illegal immigrants, who are themselves the victims of crimes, to feel safe in reporting those crimes to police.
Brown packed up and left the California governor&#8217;s office on Monday, ceding the post to former San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom. Brown&#8217;s only advice for the incoming Newsom during the Monday morning transition of power was, &#8220;<a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/01/07/682722290/passing-the-torch-california-gov-jerry-brown-tells-newsom-don-t-screw-it-up">don&#8217;t screw it up</a>.&#8221;

Outgoing California Gov. Jerry Brown Claims Sanctuary State Policy Had Nothing To Do With Cop Killing

California

Jerry Brown

In the still of the last night of 2018, the silence of California Dems chilled the air and airwaves.
Border wall opponent Sen. Kamala Harris tweeted three times between Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Eve bemoaning the plight of illegal immigrants and their children.
But not a peep was heard from Harris about the brutal shooting death of Newman, California, Police Department Cpl. Ronil Singh at the hands of a Mexican gang member illegally in the country and protected by the very sanctuary policies Harris champions.
Border wall opponent Rep. Nancy Pelosi decried the deaths of two illegal immigrant children on the same day Singh was murdered, bashed the government shutdown and, on New Year&#8217;s Eve, promoted her upcoming MSNBC special.
But not a peep was heard from Pelosi about Singh, the suspected illegal immigrant murderer, or the arrests of a total of seven alleged accomplices &#8212; all reported to be illegally in this country as well.
Border wall opponent Sen. Dianne Feinstein released a public letter to the Customs and Border Patrol agency on the day of Singh&#8217;s murder to voice her &#8220;strong concern about the recent deaths and illnesses of children detained in Border Patrol custody, and to request a full accounting and a revised protocol to prevent such tragedies from occurring in the future.&#8221;
But not a peep was heard from Feinstein about Singh, no call for investigation of how the suspected murderer and his alleged accomplices arrived in the U.S., were able to evade arrest and detection, and who employed them, and aided, abetted, and sheltered them.
Neighbors, friends and co-workers turned out in full force for a candlelight vigil this week memorializing the dedicated, patriotic, compassionate, hard-working husband and father of a 5-month-old baby. But rabble-rousing liberal politicians, so quick to rush down to the border to exploit the migrant caravan crisis and sabotage President Donald Trump&#8217;s efforts to keep America safe, were nowhere to be found.
How could any decent citizen not be moved by Reggie Singh, who broke down in tears while expressing thanks to local, state and federal officers upon the arrest of his hero brother&#8217;s suspected murderer after an intense multiagency manhunt?
How could any public servant not be outraged by the revelations of Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson, who reported that Ronil Singh&#8217;s suspected murderer from Mexico had worked illegally as a laborer, had known gang affiliations, and had two prior drunk driving arrests before the fatal traffic stop and attempted escape back to Mexico.
California&#8217;s sanctuary laws, supported by every California Democrat and signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown, barred local authorities from reporting the alleged cop-killer for his prior criminal arrests to ICE.
The priorities couldn&#8217;t be starker: Open borders Democratic hearts bleed for those bent on undermining our sovereignty, while they turn blind eyes to legal immigrants like Indo-American Singh, originally from Fiji, who honored our institutions and enforced our laws.
Newman Police Chief Randy Richardson paid tribute to his friend and employee: &#8220;This is a man that loved his country. This is a man that worked hard for what he believed in. He believed in this community.&#8221;
Singh was the true story of the American dream, brought down by the ongoing open borders nightmare. He cherished his family roots and heritage, but embraced the privileges and responsibilities of legally obtained citizenship as a fully assimilated American. And this is precisely why California Democrats won&#8217;t say his name, acknowledge his sacrifice or investigate the policy failures that led to his death.
The silent Dems have spent 30 years obliterating the difference between legal and illegal immigration.
They&#8217;ve spent every waking moment since President Trump took office denying the chaotic consequences of sanctuary policies.
They&#8217;ve spent the past year demonizing law enforcement officers at both borders and across the interior, stoking fear and hatred of those who put their lives on the line 24/7/365.
To speak Cpl. Ronil Singh&#8217;s name is to admit the blood on their own hands.
Michelle Malkin is host of &#8220;Michelle Malkin Investigates&#8221; on CRTV.com. Her email address is writemalkin@gmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

MALKIN: Say His Name: RIP Cpl. Ronil Singh

Dianne Feinstein

Kamala Harris

Nancy Pelosi

Seven additional men have been arrested in connection with the murder of Newman, California, Police officer Ronil Singh, for helping suspect Gustavo Perez Arriaga try to flee into Mexico, authorities say.
<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-accused-killing-northern-california-police-officer-ronil/story?id=60048463">ABC News reports</a> that Arriaga was hoping to escape back to his home country of Mexico with the help of his girlfriend, family members, and co-workers, after he allegedly shot and killed Singh during a routine traffic stop in northern California on Wednesday. Arriaga was in the United States illegally.
&#8220;An undocumented immigrant with known gang affiliations, the 32-year-old Arriaga tried to flee to Mexico after his alleged crime, authorities said Friday. Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson said that Arriaga crossed into Arizona from Mexico illegally a couple of years ago and it is believed that he had been working on farms in California&#8217;s Central Valley,&#8221; according to ABC News. Arriaga had at least two prior arrests on his record, both for driving under the influence.
When Singh pulled Arriaga over early Wednesday morning, it was because he suspected Arriaga of drunken driving. After a brief confrontation which quickly developed into a firefight, Singh was killed. He leaves behind a wife and a five month old son.
Arriaga was eventually captured near Bakersfield, California, nearly 200 miles south of where the initial murder took place.
&#8220;By late Friday night, a total of seven people had been arrested for either misleading authorities about Arriaga&#8217;s whereabouts or aiding him in evading authorities &#8211; including a woman described as Arriaga&#8217;s girlfriend and two of his brothers, according to police officials and ABC-owned station KFSN,&#8221; the outlet continued.
The case, which opened just as the president and Congress clashed over illegal immigration and how best to control it, has highlighted the impact illegal immigration has on law enforcement, and the dangers of unfettered movement across the United States&#8217; southern border.
<a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/12/27/sheriff_on_murder_of_immigrant_officer_singh_by_illegal_immigrant_shining_example_of_the_american_dream.html?fbclid=IwAR0z1dY2Zl54HBlOzd4zsOZO4GckD2LgEAXUnXglbAJSkqS_doHiUeZcUVs">In an interview with Fox News on Thursday</a>, the officer in charge of investigating Singh&#8217;s murder, Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson, drove home the connection between Singh&#8217;s murder and the issue at the forefront of a Congressional budget battle.
&#8220;Because I want the nation to know, I want your viewers to know, that Officer Singh really should be the focus of this investigation and his sacrifice. But I also want everybody to know that immigration is good for America, if done legally. Illegal immigration doesn&#8217;t serve our communities, especially criminals who victimize and exploit our communities,&#8221; Christianson told Fox.
&#8220;Whether you hate the president or love the president, border security goes hand-in-hand with national security, the safety of our communities, and public safety. We need to know who is in our communities that shouldn&#8217;t be. We should be focusing on criminal activity without political interference,&#8221; he continued.
He repeated his criticisms <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Sheriff-to-announce-significant-13495621.php">in a press conference on Friday</a> announcing Arriaga&#8217;s arrest, slamming California&#8217;s &#8220;sanctuary state&#8221; laws that prevent law enforcement from prosecuting and deporting illegal immigrants captured during routine law enforcement actions.
&#8220;We were prohibited &#8212; law enforcement was prohibited because of sanctuary laws and that led to the encounter with officer Singh,&#8221; Christianson said. &#8220;The outcome could have been different if law enforcement wasn&#8217;t restricted, prohibited, or had their hands tied because of political interference.&#8221;
President Donald Trump echoed Christianson&#8217;s statements late last week. &#8220;There is right now a full scale manhunt going on in California for an illegal immigrant accused of shooting and killing a police officer during a traffic stop,&#8221; he tweeted Thursday. &#8220;Time to get tough on Border Security. Build the Wall!&#8221;
Ed note: This article originally referred to Sheriff Christianson as Officer Singh&#8217;s boss. Christianson is, instead, the officer in charge of investigating Singh&#8217;s death. The story has been updated to reflect the change and we apologize for the error.

California Sheriff SLAMS Sanctuary Cities, Illegal Immigration After SEVEN More Individuals Are Arrested In Cop Slaying

Donald Trump

A twice-deported illegal immigrant who was protected by California&#8217;s &#8220;sanctuary state&#8221; policies, which prevent law enforcement from holding criminal illegal immigrants requested by ICE, died Monday after going on a 24-hour &#8220;personal reign of terror&#8221; in which he killed a man, wounded several, robbed a store, carjacked a vehicle, and forced police to pursue him in a dangerous high-speed chase after engaging in a shootout with law enforcement.
Gustavo Garcia, 36, had a lengthy criminal record dating back to 2002. Along with his presence in the country illegally &#8212; for which he was deported twice, once in 2004 and again in 2014 &#8212; Garcia has faced drug and illegal weapons charges, serving 27 months in federal prison. Before his second deportation, Garcia also had three ICE violations, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-man-previously-deported-in-2014-goes-on-24-hour-reign-of-terror-before-dying-in-police-chase">Fox News</a> reports.
Despite his lengthy rap sheet, California protected Garcia from ICE. Just two days before his deadly &#8220;reign of terror,&#8221; Garcia was held in Tulare County jail for 10 hours after he was arrested for being under the influence of a controlled substance.
&#8220;Before Garcia&#8217;s release, ICE officials alerted deputies that Garcia was a criminal with a violent past who had been deported once in 2004 and again in 2014,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/news/2018/12/19/visalia-killer-deported-twice-ice-arrested-two-days-before-tulare-county-reign-terror/2364736002/">Visalia Times-Delta</a> reports. But, because of California&#8217;s &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; laws, the sheriff&#8217;s office was unable to comply with ICE&#8217;s detention request and was forced to release Garcia back into the public.
Two days later, Garcia shot and killed a man and injured several others, one of them critically, before Garcia himself died after being ejected from the stolen truck after a high-speed pursuit by officers that followed a harrowing shootout.
&#8220;We have one man that essentially [has] been on a personal reign of terror,&#8221; Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux told the press at a news conference.
The sheriff expressed deep &#8220;frustration&#8221; about being hamstrung by the state&#8217;s sanctuary laws. &#8220;The Tulare County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is equally as frustrated with this situation,&#8221; Boudreaux said, citing ICE&#8217;s lament about the needless suffering caused by releasing Garcia. &#8220;Because of California law, detainers can no longer be recognized by local law enforcement.&#8221;
&#8220;This is an unfortunate and extremely tragic example of how public safety is impacted with laws or policies limiting local law enforcement agencies&#8217; ability to cooperate with ICE,&#8221; immigration authorities said in a statement.
Garcia&#8217;s murderous campaign started around 1 p.m. Sunday, when he shot and wounded a farm worker before robbing a convenience store at gunpoint of $2,000 in cash. A little over six hours later, around 7:30 p.m., Garcia shot a female guest at a Motel 6 in both the chest and arm. Neither the farm worker&#8217;s or the guest&#8217;s wounds are critical.
Garcia&#8217;s rampage, the victims of which appear to have been mostly random, continued early morning Monday, when he shot up a gas station nearly Pixley at around 1:30 a.m., and then shot and killed Rocky Paul Jones, 51, at another gas station an hour later.
After firing shots from the backyard of his ex-girlfriend&#8217;s home in Visalia, where Garcia had been living, he fired at a home in the Sultana area, and then engaged in a brief police chase, which included him firing at sheriff&#8217;s cruisers, and ended with him wrecking the car. After a shootout (shown in the video below), Garcia stole a truck and led officers on another dangerous chase that topped speeds of 100 mph, Fox News notes.
After smashing into four other cars &#8212; one driver of which is in critical condition while the others suffered minor wounds &#8212; Garcia died, being reportedly thrown from the truck.
Police have since released body cam footage of the frantic shootout with Garcia prior to his theft at gunpoint of the truck (h/t <a href="https://hotair.com/archives/2018/12/20/released-thanks-californias-sanctuary-state-policy-man-went-reign-terror-days-later/">John Sexton</a>):
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WATCH: Body Cam Footage Of Cops&#8217; Shootout With Illegal Alien Protected From ICE By CA&#8217;s Sanctuary Laws Just Two Days Earlier

On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson protected Philadelphia&#8217;s status as a sanctuary city, asserting that the federal government cannot eliminate grants to the city of Philadelphia over policies that limit the city&#8217;s cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
That triggered this celebratory behavior from Philadelphia mayor James Kenney:
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Watch the Mayor of Philadelphia dance because a court ruled Philly could be a sanctuary city&#8230; 
What a slap to the face of immigrants who worked hard to come here legally. <a href="https://t.co/yMaZXBgBgL">pic.twitter.com/yMaZXBgBgL</a>
&#8212; Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) <a href="https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1004746005009530880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2018</a></blockquote>
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He also tweeted:
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We took on the federal government and won. Today, a federal judge upheld our right to welcome immigrants regardless of their status. Philadelphia will always be a welcoming city for all. <a href="https://t.co/ZkmbJN5FnX">pic.twitter.com/ZkmbJN5FnX</a>
&#8212; Jim Kenney (@PhillyMayor) <a href="https://twitter.com/PhillyMayor/status/1004453365915496451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
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On Thursday, the White House <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/07/white-house-slams-philadelphia-mayor-for-disgusting-victory-dance-over-sanctuary-city-ruling.html">fired back</a>. White House spokesman Hogan Gidley told Fox News, &#8220;Many people in Philadelphia have been killed, raped or assaulted at the hands of criminal illegal aliens. It&#8217;s disgusting the mayor would dance in celebration of a lawless decision that allows these dangerous criminals to roam free in Philadelphia communities and prey on innocent families and children. Democrats&#8217; Sanctuary City policy is reckless, dangerous and protects criminals, not law abiding American citizens.&#8221;
Rep. Lou Barletta of Hazleton, who formerly served as that city&#8217;s mayor, told <a href="http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/06/07/philadelphia-mayor-dances-sanctuary-city-ruling-lou-barletta-rips-jim-kenney-supporting">Fox Business News</a>, &#8220;That&#8217;s really a sad video to watch. Especially for me. I don&#8217;t think the families of the victims in Philadelphia who were victims of illegal immigrants&#8230; I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re dancing.&#8221; He cited a <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20160808_How_a_man_here_illegally_got_released__to_be_arrested_again.html">recent case</a> where an illegal immigrant has been accused of raping a child.
Philadelphia has asserted that it will only relinquish illegal immigrants to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if ICE obtains a warrant signed by a judge.

WATCH: Mayor Jumps For Joy After Judge Protects Philadelphia&#8217;s Sanctuary City Status

Philadelphia

In a new report published by <a href="http://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/389600-the-people-really-benefiting-from-californias-sanctuary-laws">The Hill</a>, immigration law expert Nolan Rappaport provides a narrative-busting reality check for California&#8217;s Democratic leaders who continue to support law-bending and breaking &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; policies: They hurt the illegal immigrants politicians and activists claim they help.
Rappaport begins by giving a summary of the Trump administration&#8217;s escalating battle with California over the state&#8217;s increasingly aggressive sanctuary policies, particularly three of California&#8217;s <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-preemption-lawsuit-against-state-california-stop-interference" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">sanctuary laws</a>, which the administration contends deliberately attempt to obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration law.
California&#8217;s <a href="https://fairus.org/legislation/state-local-legislation/california-sanctuary-state-bill-sb-54-summary-and-history">S.B. 54</a>, Rappaport explains, not only restricts the sharing of information on immigrants with federal authorities, it &#8220;prohibits the transfer of criminal aliens to federal custody.&#8221; <a href="https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/ab60">A.B. 60</a> &#8220;requires the department to issue an original driver license to an applicant who is unable to submit satisfactory proof of legal presence&#8221; in the U.S. but can provide proof of residency. &#8220;<a href="http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article207939584.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">More than a million</a> immigrants in the country illegally have received a California driver&#8217;s license,&#8221; Rappaport notes.
But is California really helping illegal immigrants with its illegal immigrant-welcoming, ICE-thwarting sanctuary policies? Rappaport says no. In fact, its policies are hurting undocumented immigrants, who are being regularly &#8220;exploited by unscrupulous employers&#8221; and being detained at higher levels due to ICE being forced to change how it rounds up criminal illegal aliens.
Rappaport cites a <a href="https://www.epi.org/files/pdf/143988.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">recent report</a> from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) on California&#8217;s illegal immigrant labor laws which found that they have encouraged widespread exploitation of immigrants. &#8220;According to EPI, fear of being reported to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) gives employers extraordinary power to take advantage of unauthorized immigrant employees.&#8221; Rappaport provides a summary of the <a href="http://www.epi.org/files/pdf/143988.pdf">seven laws</a> California has been forced to enact to try to protect illegal immigrant workers from such exploitation:
<ul>
<li>A.B. 263 prohibited employers from using immigration-related threats to retaliate against employees who have exercise their labor rights;</li>
<li>S.B. 666 made it easier for immigrant workers to sue employers who retaliate against them for exercising their workplace rights;</li>
<li>A.B. 524 expanded the definition of &#8220;criminal extortion&#8221; to include threats related to immigration status;</li>
<li>A.B. 2571 modified A.B. 263 to permit the $10,000 civil penalty for retaliation to be awarded to the employee instead of to the state of California;</li>
<li>S.B. 1001 and A.B. 622 made it more difficult for employers to use the employment authorization process to retaliate against unauthorized immigrant workers; and</li>
<li>A.B. 450 discouraged employers from using the <a href="https://www.ice.gov/factsheets/i9-inspection" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">I-9 process</a> for verifying the identity and employment eligibility of their employees to retaliate against undocumented immigrant workers.</li>
</ul>
Clearly, the problem is rampant enough that California has had to take extreme measures to try to tamp it down.
And California&#8217;s sanctuary laws that are designed to shield criminal illegal immigrants from the feds are actually leading to more arrests. Rappaport explains (formatting adjusted):
<blockquote>
Sanctuary policies prevent local police departments from turning inmates over to ICE when they are released from custody, which has resulted in returning some dangerous criminal immigrants to the community. 
ICE had to change its enforcement operations from taking custody of immigrants at police stations to looking for undocumented immigrants in the community, which resulted in arresting approximately 40,000 noncriminal immigrants in fiscal 2017.
</blockquote>
Rappaport explains that the main obstacle in deporting illegal immigrants is the massive backlog of cases, which grew by some 20% from 2017 to 2018, resulting in average wait times of almost two years. That long backlog often requires authorities to release dangerous criminal aliens on the street, at which point they disappear.
&#8220;Apparently, the main beneficiaries of California&#8217;s sanctuary policies are deportable immigrants in police custody who otherwise would be turned over to ICE when they are released and unscrupulous employers who exploit undocumented immigrant workers,&#8221; Rappaport concludes.
H/T <a href="https://hotair.com/archives/2018/05/29/guess-whos-really-benefiting-sanctuary-laws/">Jazz Shaw</a>

Immigration Law Expert: Sanctuary City Policies Hurt Exactly Who Democrats Say They Help

According to <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/10/half-of-americans-now-live-in-sanctuaries/">The Washington Times</a>, roughly half of all Americans now live in cities that openly attempt to thwart federal immigration authorities under the so-called &#8220;sanctuary city&#8221; policies that shield illegal immigrants, including criminal illegal immigrants, from law enforcement.
The numbers showing that half of Americans live in sanctuary cities were tallied by the Federation for American Immigration Reform. From The Washington Times:
<blockquote>
FAIR calculates there were 564 states and municipalities that refuse some level of cooperation with federal immigration authorities as of April 1, up more than 200 since President <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/donald-trump/">Trump</a> took office and up more than 500 compared with a decade ago. There were just 40 sanctuaries when President Obama took office.
Entire states such as California, Illinois and New York are now sanctuaries, as well as major cities and counties such as Fairfax, Montgomery and Prince George&#8217;s counties and the District of Columbia in the capital region, according to the list.
Combined, the sanctuaries on FAIR&#8217;s list cover 49 percent of the country&#8217;s population, The Washington Times calculated.
</blockquote>
Bob Dane, executive director at FAIR, said these staggering numbers put the United States on a path to becoming a &#8220;sanctuary country.&#8221;
&#8220;This is just an astounding and a dramatic surge of sanctuary jurisdictions,&#8221; said Dane. &#8220;They&#8217;ve doubled in just two years, and if you game that out, if the exponential growth continues, it&#8217;s not going to be long before it&#8217;s accurate to say the U.S. is a sanctuary country.&#8221;
The official definition of what constitutes a &#8220;sanctuary city&#8221; varies, but the general rule for qualifying is a city that &#8220;bans police or other officials from asking about immigration status, forbids communication with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or refuses to hold likely deportees for pickup by ICE.&#8221;
Other organizations, such as Ohio Jobs and Justice Political Action Committee, had slightly lower estimates than FAIR, though the number of Americans living in sanctuary cities remains relatively high.
&#8220;The surge in sanctuaries began under Mr. Obama, with an average of three sanctuaries per month added during his two terms, according to FAIR statistics,&#8221; reports WT. &#8220;<a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/donald-trump/">Mr. Trump</a>, meanwhile, is seeing an average of 16 new sanctuaries each month.&#8221;
California has the most sanctuary cities in its state &#8212; more than 130, with 80 being added under the reign of President Trump. While Democrats bear the responsibility, Dane says that the onus is on Trump to stop them by pressing Congress to pass legislation and sending ICE agents into those cities against their mayoral wishes. &#8220;<a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/donald-trump/">Trump</a> owns this problem. The buck stops on the president&#8217;s desk, even though it&#8217;s not his fault,&#8221; he said.
Last year, the House passed an anti-sanctuary cities bill only to have it quashed in the Senate thanks to a Democratic filibuster.

How Many Americans Live In &#8216;Sanctuary Cities&#8217;? The Numbers Are Stunning.

California Governor Jerry Brown, who <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/about/">studied at a Jesuit seminary</a>, is surely familiar with the phrase from Galatians 6:7: &#8220;Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.&#8221;
Brown, a <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/05/california-sanctuary-city-jerry-brown-signs-243503">sanctuary cities supporter</a>, likely never figured that his own views on the subject would return to bite him, but that&#8217;s exactly what happened last month, when a homeless man arrested for breaking into Brown&#8217;s home claimed he selected Brown&#8217;s home because Brown was &#8220;an open-door policy kind of guy.&#8221;
According to the California Highway Patrol, Steven Seeley, 51, was arrested April 19 after breaking into Brown&#8217;s mansion in Sacramento. On Sunday, <a href="http://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-man-arrested-for-trespassing-at-governors-mansion/20095078">speaking to KCRA</a>, Seeley stated he heard what he thought was a large cat roaring nearby, and ran into Brown&#8217;s home through a side door. He asserted, &#8220;He&#8217;s an open-door policy kind of guy, so I figured the door would be unlocked, or else I wouldn&#8217;t have ran over there if I thought the door would be locked.&#8221;
Seeley, who described himself as using methamphetamine virtually every day, told <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article209983684.html">The Sacramento Bee</a> that he saw wild animals on the streets of midtown Sacramento and walked in the house because he knew they had &#8220;big guns.&#8221; He said, &#8220;I was looking for the security staff, but I didn&#8217;t see anybody. I thought the governor was in trouble, I thought he was in danger of being attacked by the wild animals, so I walked in. I yelled &#8216;Jerry.'&#8221;

HILARIOUS: Homeless Man Says He Broke Into Jerry Brown&#8217;s House Because Brown&#8217;s &#8216;An Open-Door Policy Kind Of Guy&#8217;

On Friday, MRCTV uploaded a new &#8220;Reality Check&#8221; with Brittany Hughes, and this episode&#8217;s topic was the way in which sanctuary cities protect criminal illegal immigrants.
<blockquote>
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been pulling off raids right, left, and sideways in sanctuary cities across America where violent illegal aliens are protected by leftist politicians with your money &#8212; and you will not believe who they&#8217;ve caught. Actually, no, on second thought, you might.
</blockquote>
Following her introduction, Hughes got into the details of just who sanctuary city policies are protecting:
<blockquote>
ICE just arrested 33 known or suspected human rights violators from around the world who were here illegally &#8212; and that was just last week. They arrested four Chinese citizens who had performed forced abortions and sterilizations on Chinese women. There was a former intelligence officer from Central America who had spied on and arrested dozens of people who were then tortured. They picked up a high level intelligence officer from the Middle East who had aided in the arrest, torture, and murder of God only knows how many people. Oh, and there was also a dude from East Africa who had used violence to force women into having their genitals mutilated.
Eight of these people had been convicted of crimes right here in the U.S. for things like battery, weapons violations, and DUIs &#8212; and these are just the international humans rights criminals. Because ICE also picked up 60 illegal aliens in New Jersey this week, including a 54-year-old child rapist, who had assaulted a police officer, and been convicted of burglary.
The week before that, they nabbed 225 illegals in New York. These guys included criminals convicted of child rape, assault, theft, DUI, resisting arrest, drug charges, weapons charges, and murder. So just so we&#8217;re all clear here, when sanctuary cities talk about protecting immigrants, this is who they&#8217;re talking about.
</blockquote>
Hughes then explained what sanctuary city policies actually do:
<blockquote>
See, sanctuary city policies do not just mean that they give free handouts to illegals, it means that local authorities are prohibited from turning criminal aliens like these over to immigration. Criminal aliens.
We&#8217;re not talking about sweet Maria whose house in Guatemala got blown away by a hurricane and now she works at Holiday Inn; we&#8217;re not talking about Mr. Patel who runs the cash register at the local 7/11 so that his son can become an optometrist; we&#8217;re not even talking about DREAMers who got dragged across the border illegally when they were three, and now all they want to do is go to UCLA and major in lesbian dance theory. Oh no. We are talking about gang bangers who run around with illegal weapons, selling drugs and trafficking women. We are talking about drunk drivers who run stoplights and T-bone a mom and her three kids in her minivan. We&#8217;re talking about war criminals who are wanted in their home countries for things like torture, murder, and rape. That is who sanctuary cities protect.
</blockquote>
Hughes then turned toward progressives who claim that sanctuary policies are in place for immigrant protection:
<blockquote>
Do not tell me that this is all about Pablo and his dream to finally get his high school diploma. Sanctuary cities protect murderers and thieves and child molesters &#8212; and they do it on your dime. And by the way, guess who studies have found are the primary victims of illegal alien crime? Other immigrants. Most illegal alien crimes are committed in immigrant communities. So tell me, how much can you possibly care about immigrants if you&#8217;re official policy is to dump violent felons back into their neighborhoods? Because that is what sanctuary cities do.
They do not care about you. They do not care about immigrants. Because if they they did, they probably wouldn&#8217;t be giving Jorge the gang-banging crackhead a free pass back into your apartment complex.
</blockquote>
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WATCH: MRCTV’s Brittany Hughes Calls Out ‘Sanctuary City’ Policies

On Tuesday, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, which represents over three million people, <a href="https://apnews.com/205c6ea34a254850a0f83936ddabc051?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=AP">voted to support a Trump administration lawsuit</a> targeting a California law limiting police collaboration with U.S. immigration agents.
That decision followed Monday night&#8217;s decision from the Orange County community of Los Alamitos to approve an ordinance that would exempt the city from the sanctuary law on the grounds it is unconstitutional. Los Alamitos can exempt itself because it is a <a href="http://www.cacities.org/Resources/Charter-Cities">charter city</a>.
In March, the Hesperia city council <a href="http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/20180325/hesperia-discusses-sanctuary-exemption">voted</a> to join an amicus brief with the Trump administration&#8217;s lawsuit.
In early March, the Trump Administration <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/06/trump-doj-sues-california-over-interference-with-immigration-enforcement.html">filed suit</a> against California, asserting that three of the state&#8217;s laws were deliberately interfering with federal immigration policies. One law gave additional worker protections against federal immigration enforcement actions. Another protected illegal immigrants by limiting state and municipal cooperation with the federal government, and a third gave state officials the power to monitor and inspect immigrant detention facilities run or contracted through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

San Diego County Board Of Supervisors Votes To Back Trump Action Against CA Sanctuary City Laws

San Diego

An increasing number of Californians are growing tired of the state&#8217;s sanctuary city policy, which is currently being legally challenged by the Trump Administration.
<a href="http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/article208949854.html">According</a> to The Associated Press, &#8220;at least a dozen local governments have voted to either join or support the lawsuit or for resolutions opposing the state&#8217;s position&#8221; since Attorney General Jeff Session&#8217;s Department of Justice filed suit.
The sanctuary city policy bars local law enforcement from working with federal immigration agents with regard to illegal immigrants.
Most notably, Orange County &#8212; which has more than 3 million people &#8212; voted to join the Trump legal effort to resist the sanctuary city policy earlier in the month. &#8220;When the attorney general of the United States decides to take a firm position against it, I think that gave a signal to a lot of us that, &#8216;Hey, California is on the wrong side of this thing,'&#8221; said the chairman of the Republican Party in Orange County, Fred Whitaker.
Escondido City Council also voted 4-1 in favor of filing a legal brief in support of the Trump administration&#8217;s lawsuit on April 4 after a rowdy town hall meeting.
&#8220;I was elected mayor to uphold the Constitution and to keep our community safe. I am committed to do that, and that&#8217;s what the council did today,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/29100/watch-california-town-hall-erupts-over-sanctuary-amanda-prestigiacomo">argued</a> Mayor Sam Abed. One resident, a legal immigrant wearing a &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; hat, also argued against the sanctuary policy. &#8220;Forty-five years ago, we were not offered sanctuary,&#8221; he said at the town hall event. &#8220;We were not offered an easier, softer way. We were told &#8216;You have to be an American citizen, and here&#8217;s what you have to do.&#8217; And we did it.&#8221;
In coming days, pockets of the state will continue to hold votes on proposals to exempt themselves from the sanctuary policy and/or back the Trump suit. &#8220;[L]eaders in the Orange County city of Los Alamitos scheduled to vote Monday on a proposal for a local law to exempt the community of 12,000 from the state law,&#8221; says the report. &#8220;On Tuesday, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors is meeting to consider joining the Trump administration lawsuit.&#8221;
Though the blue state is hyper-liberal, many Californians are seemingly rebelling against the state&#8217;s numerous extreme acts taken to protect those who broke the law and entered the country illegally. As noted by AP, Democratic leadership &#8220;has enacted a series of laws in recent years aimed at helping immigrants, including issuing driver&#8217;s licenses regardless of legal status and assisting with tuition at state universities.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/16261/narrative-fail-legal-immigrants-rally-against-amanda-prestigiacomo">Polling</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/13721/poll-most-americans-hate-sanctuary-cities-aaron-bandler">indicates</a> that the American people overall <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/320487-poll-americans-overwhelmingly-oppose-sanctuary-cities">oppose</a> sanctuary city policies and <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/22/shock-poll-us-wants-massive-cuts-legal-immigration/">support massive cuts</a> to even legal immigration. The 2016 presidential election was further evidence of this.
Even liberal California is apparently not immune to such a sentiment.
But this doesn&#8217;t mean leadership is totally in line with new political winds in Cali. On Monday, Governor Jerry Brown <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/29500/showdown-california-bans-national-guard-executing-ryan-saavedra">banned</a> the National Guard from executing Trump&#8217;s orders at the Southern border, for example. &#8220;The state informed federal officials it will not allow its troops to fix and repair vehicles, operate remotely-controlled surveillance cameras to report suspicious activity to the Border Patrol, operate radios and provide &#8216;mission support,&#8217; which can include clerical work, buying gas and handling payroll, according to officials with knowledge of the talks who spoke condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter,&#8221; reported the AP.

In California, Resistance To The Trump #Resistance Grows. Here&#8217;s Why.

Open borders tour guides in Mexico illegally shepherding 1,500 Central Americans to the United States border declared victory this week. Mexican officials reportedly are offering humanitarian visas to avert a showdown. But the parade of immigration lawlessness marches on &#8212; with reckless aiding and abetting by churches across the U.S.
Pueblo Sin Fronteras, the group in charge of the annual &#8220;migrant caravan,&#8221; launched its effort during Holy Week by invoking the Stations of the Cross with biblical costumery and prop crosses. When they&#8217;re not serving as human traffickers masquerading as human rights activists, these travel agents for amnesty busy themselves constructing shelters along their illicit pathways that span the globe. Catholic groups have sponsored and subsidized such nation-sabotaging campaigns for decades.
The Vatican itself donated at least $20,000 in 2009 to erect a shelter for Central American illegal aliens sneaking through Ixtepec, Mexico, where they hopped on freight trains into our country. Another papal society, Catholic Extension, has poured more than $12 million dollars into ministries along our southern border over the past five years &#8220;to ensure that those who are on a journey are protected by the Church and that we advocate on their behalf,&#8221; according the Catholic News Agency.
In Colorado, five illegal aliens have taken sanctuary in houses of worship in the outlaw safe spaces of Mancos, Denver, Carbondale and Boulder &#8212; more than any other state. Each had multiple bites at the legal apple that stretched out for years. Our immigration courts heard their cases, rejected their appeals, turned down the appeals of their appeals and ordered them to leave. Religious groups have provided lawyers and media relations consultants every step of the way.
In Washington state, the Jesuit-affiliated St. Joseph Catholic Church of Seattle blasted President Trump&#8217;s &#8220;destructive and brutal&#8221; immigration enforcement and declared &#8220;our unwavering solidarity with our brothers and sisters in the immigrant community.&#8221; All deportations violate &#8220;Catholic Social Teaching&#8221; and &#8220;the common good,&#8221; the parish asserted.
In Manhattan&#8217;s Upper West Side, the Fourth Universalist Society of New York is harboring a mother and her family who&#8217;ve lived here illegally for more than a dozen years and feel entitled to flout their deportation orders.
In Springfield, Massachusetts, the South Congregational Church is shielding a Peruvian woman and her two children facing deportation. Mayor Domenic Sarno has called on the city council to revoke the church&#8217;s property tax exemption so that no &#8220;public dollars shall be allocated for the purpose of interfering with the religious freedoms of South Church in accordance to our Constitution.&#8221; In response to a rare public official taking his legal and fiduciary responsibilities seriously, the church&#8217;s leader condemned Sarno&#8217;s soul.
In Las Vegas, the incoming Catholic Bishop George Leo Thomas announced that illegal immigration and gun control will top his spiritual agenda. Echoing the left-wing U.S. Conference on Catholic Bishops, Thomas pledged to support and advocate for the so-called illegal alien Dreamers and welcome them into the church.
In San Diego, Catholic and Episcopal leaders united to protest construction of the border wall while waving Mexican flags. &#8220;Jesus said we should love our neighbor,&#8221; one argued.
True, but Scripture also teaches citizens to honor the rule of law and secular authorities who preserve and defend civil order and safety: &#8220;Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore, whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment&#8221; (Romans 13:1-7).
The Acton Institute&#8217;s Brooke Levitske put it more bluntly: &#8220;Christ expected his followers to treat criminals in prison the way they would treat him, but he said nothing about busting them out of prison.&#8221;
As a Catholic who believes in strict immigration enforcement, I have argued repeatedly that it is one thing to show compassion to legal immigrants, legitimate refugees and asylees, and those abused and mistreated by smugglers. It&#8217;s quite another to conspire against an orderly immigration and entrance system that imposes commonsense limits, eligibility requirements, criminal background checks, medical screening and a commitment to assimilation.
Our laws are clear: 8 U.S. Code Section 1324 makes it a felony to knowingly bring or attempt to bring aliens across the border illegally; to knowingly conceal, harbor or shield them from detection in reckless disregard for the law; and to engage in any conspiracy or to aid and abet such acts.
We reserve the right to regulate entry into our country for the same reasons the Vatican itself has high barriers, armed guards and metal detectors. Yet, Pope Francis has lambasted President Trump and our walls as &#8220;not Christian.&#8221;
If you don&#8217;t like our laws, change them. If you can&#8217;t respect our sovereignty, go organize a caravan of alien trespassers and seek permanent shelter at the Sistine Chapel. Good luck with that.
Michelle Malkin is host of &#8220;Michelle Malkin Investigates&#8221; on CRTV.com. Her email address is writemalkin@gmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

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