If only there was a law...
Posted on 03/07/2018 9:20:58 AM PST by jazusamo
Video at link.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a stern warning to California the same day he announced a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department over the state's immigration policies.
“I understand that we have a wide variety of political opinions out there on immigration. But the law is in the books and its purposes are clear and just,” Sessions said during a speech to the California Peace Officers’ Association in Sacramento on Wednesday.
“There is no nullification. There is no secession. Federal law is the supreme law of the land. I would invite any doubters to go to Gettysburg, to the tombstones of John C. Calhoun and Abraham Lincoln. This matter has been settled,” he continued.
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against California on Wednesday that aims to block three so-called sanctuary laws California's legislature passed last year. The laws dictate how local jurisdictions should interact with federal immigration authorities. California’s laws, Sessions argued, are harmful to the state’s residents, and prevent law enforcement officers from doing their jobs.
He singled out Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who last month warned residents of an impending Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid. Schaaf defended her decision even after ICE said it was unable to locate more than 800 people as part of its sweep of the city.
"Here’s my message to Mayor Schaaf: How dare you," Sessions said Wednesday. "How dare you needlessly endanger the lives of our law enforcement officers to promote a radical open borders agenda."
He said the Justice Department isn’t asking the state to enforce federal immigration law, but rather is asking California and local jurisdictions to “stop actively obstructing federal law enforcement.”
“California is using every power it has, and some it doesn’t, to frustrate federal law enforcement,” Sessions said. “So you can be sure...
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
No known connection, but on a recent weekend over 30 people, mostly urban youths, were shot down on the streets of Chicago.
“If California splits into two, then there are four radical senators from the state instead of two.”
Solution: Congress can act to separate the loyal counties from the disloyal counties and simply call the loyal counties “California”.
The liberal, secessionist rump can be rendered into a territory that will be stripped of representation in Congress.
It’s clear that California has to secede first before making its own laws that countermand federal law on such a large scale.
I would say they are playing chess and forcing the feds to say exactly that, but Brown is not half as smart as Trump.
“No known connection, but on a recent weekend over 30 people, mostly urban youths, were shot down on the streets of Chicago.”
My day just keeps getting better.
Gee with California libs being so anti gun how would they fend off US troops keeping them breaking off from the union? Perhaps California would seek help from like minded foreign governments like North Korea.
“There is no secession. “ - Sessions
Damn.
5.56mm
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2001-title8/html/USCODE-2001-title8-chap12.htm
CHAPTER 12—IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
SUBCHAPTER I—GENERAL PROVISIONS
§1373. Communication between government agencies and the Immigration and Naturalization Service
(a) In general
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 Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.
(b) Additional authority of government entities
Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, no person or agency may prohibit, or in any way restrict, a Federal, State, or local government entity from doing any of the following with respect to information regarding the immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual:
(1) Sending such information to, or requesting or receiving such information from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
(2) Maintaining such information.
(3) Exchanging such information with any other Federal, State, or local government entity.
Right- there are plenty of laws already on the books that Sessions could charge those officials with crimes. If he isn’t doing so then all he is doing is making noise.
“How dare you” Suing? What kind of pusillanimous bullsh!t is that?
When will that beady-eyed limp-wristed southern fried rat bastard START PROSECUTING SOMEBODY?
Harboring illegal aliens is a felony. WHEN WILL MR. MAGOO DO HIS FARKING JOB AND ENFORCE THE RULE OF LAW?!?!?!?!?!
G-damn Sessions makes me sick.
I wish Sessions would reconsider.
Imagine 55 Democrat electoral votes, 53 mostly Democrat representatives, and two Democrat Senators disappearing...
That’s one bodacious..err..projector.
“Where are the criminal charges for obstruction?”
Criminal charges are people like us, not for the politicians who lord over us. I hopy you understand the reality that ths is just theater by Sessions to make us think he is doing something. The fact is he probably met with all the pols later that day in private to share a tax payer paid bottle of the finest bourbon availible and to joke about how they are fooling us all. Never believe for a second that Sessions is anything but a politician who does what he wants rather than what is right.
From Australia. Now that’s a projector!
Wow, they can get the death penalty or life in prison. Look at (B)(iv).
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2001-title8/html/USCODE-2001-title8-chap12.htm
§1324. Bringing in and harboring certain aliens
(a) Criminal penalties
(1)(A) Any person who—
…
(iii) knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation;
…
shall be punished as provided in subparagraph (B).
(B) A person who violates subparagraph (A) shall, for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs—
(i) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i) or (v)(I) or in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), or (iv) in which the offense was done for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both;
(ii) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), (iv), or (v)(II), be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both;
(iii) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) during and in relation to which the person causes serious bodily injury (as defined in section 1365 of title 18) to, or places in jeopardy the life of, any person, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both; and
(iv) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) resulting in the death of any person, be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, fined under title 18, or both.
Thanks for the compliment.
Careful, you’ll poke an eye out.
You think arrests and trials would not work huh?
I think it’s all a distraction from AG’s protection of Clinton/Obama syndicate on Trump dossier.
Sessions is nothing but a sock-puppet for the Clinton organized crime syndicate.
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