[Carry_Okie]

The idea that I have some inability to distinguish a city and a county is absurd on its face. There is a hugely important legal distinction between the Sheriff and the Chief of Police:

The Sheriff is the chief law enforcement officer in the jurisdiction, period, State and Federal law notwithstanding. The reason is not commonly understood, but should be, because it is rooted in common law dating back to the Magna Carta and before: The Sheriff was appointed by the Sovereign. In America, the Sovereign is the people who elect the Sheriff.

There are cases throughout the rural West where County Sheriffs have ejected enforcing agents of the Federal Government, usually representing BLM, USFS, or Fish and Wildlife.

This is why Baca's choice to enforce Federal law over the State that charters the County in the first place is so interesting. It sets a very odd precedent.

As to you Mojave, your impenetrable centric has proven itself beneath contention:

Clear as an unmuddied lake, Av.
As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer.

[Mojave]

The Sheriff was appointed by the Sovereign. In America, the Sovereign is the people who elect the Sheriff.

Which has exactly nothing to do with city policy, as you bizarrely claimed. The people elect the Sheriff for the county.

This is why Baca's choice to enforce Federal law over the State that charters the County in the first place is so interesting.

That's good and nebulous. How exactly is the Sheriff enforcing Federal law over the State?

State law does not provide for prosecuting illegal aliens based on their status, but neither does it prevent the Sheriff from referring them to ICE. By your murky "logic", the Sheriff wouldn't even be able to notify the DEA of drug offenses or the Secret Service of counterfeiting operations.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

What’s most clear is how hopelessly infiltrated with moles, paid (venal) and due to blind-following (stupidity), this place has become.

When hacks refuse to concede even the most obvious error, it surely reveals their lack of candor better than anything anyone could say.