California Has Become a Disgraceful State

Townhall.com ^ | March 10, 2018 | Jeff Crouere

[Kaslin]

At one time, California was the envy of America, attracting people from around the nation to move to a state offering opportunity and the chance to pursue ambitious dreams. With scenic beauty, the Pacific Ocean coastline, the major cities of San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco, California recruited entrepreneurs looking for economic growth. As the home of Hollywood and multitudes of celebrities, California presented an enticing potential to enjoy“lifestyles of the rich and famous.”

Today, California has become an economic and cultural disaster. The state is home to over 114,000 homeless people, one quarter of the total in the nation. In San Francisco, a health crisis has developed as the homeless have created a mess in the downtown area, littering it with fecal matter, spent needles and piles of trash.

The droughts have led to misguided water regulations imposed by environmentalists and liberal government bureaucrats. These officials also love to burden state residents and corporations with higher taxes. As a result, people and businesses are fleeing a state beset with too many regulations, tax rates that are not competitive with neighboring states and an array of other insufferable liberal policies. Even a sizable portion of the film industry has moved from Hollywood to other states offering tax incentives and a better business climate.

California officials have implemented high tax rates to fund an array of expensive services for an ever-growing population of illegal aliens. Their statewide elected politicians, such as Governor Jerry Brown, support open borders and sanctuary status for illegal aliens. In fact, the entire state has become a sanctuary for those who break our immigration laws.

Americans should never forget Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, an illegal alien who had been deported five times to Mexico, who shot 32-year-old Kate Steinle on a San Francisco pier and ran away from the scene as she died in the arms of her father. Several months before the July 1, 2015 incident, Lopez-Sanchez was in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after serving a federal prison sentence. However, San Francisco Police wanted him on a drug related warrant, so he was transferred to their control. Unfortunately, the San Francisco Police subsequently released him and did not bother to notify federal authorities. This is due to their refusal to honor “immigration detainers” that San Francisco officials believe is a violation of the Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures.

As a result of their desire to protect the rights of non-citizens, San Francisco officials allowed an illegal alien back onto the streets. Sadly, that decision ultimately cost one young woman her life. The tragic death produced a national outcry, but it did not lead to any changes in California policies. The Steinle killing was not an isolated incident as throughout California, local and state officials refuse to work with federal authorities to combat the out-of-control problem of illegal immigration. These misguided policies prevent the Trump administration from taking effective action.

Over the last week, California was in the news again for the wrong reasons. The liberal Democrat Mayor of Oakland, Libby Schaaf, issued a warning to illegal aliens that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were conducting raids in the city. She asked residents to “protect” these illegal aliens, who she called the “most vulnerable” residents of Oakland.

As a result, 800 illegal aliens evaded capture and the ICE agents were only able to apprehend 232 lawbreakers. These individuals were not Boy Scouts, in fact, 180 of them had criminal records and 115 of them had convictions for serious offenses such as child sex crimes, weapons charges or assault.

ICE was doing the community a favor by removing criminal threats and protecting innocent citizens. Regrettably, the Oakland Mayor decided to give support to illegal aliens and violent criminals instead of law abiding taxpayers.

At a press availabilityon Thursday, President Trump denounced her actions and called it “a disgrace” that she undercut the ability of ICE agents to conduct raids.The acting Director of ICE, Tom Homan, labeled her comments “a whole new low, to intentionally warn criminals that law enforcement is coming.”

Fortunately, the Trump administration acted in federal court against the rogue state of California. On Tuesday night, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit which claimed that three state laws are illegal and are pre-empted by federal law. The laws prevent employers and state officials from cooperating with federal officials on cases involving illegal immigrants.

In his speech announcing the lawsuit, Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the California laws “unjust, unfair and unconstitutional.” He also condemned the actions of the Mayor of Oakland by asking “How dare you needlessly endanger the lives of our law enforcement officers to promote a radical open borders agenda?”

These are good first steps by the Department of Justice, but they are not enough. The Attorney General should also file charges against the Mayor of Oakland personally. It is time that these California elected officials face legal consequences for their despicable behavior and their arrogant flouting of federal law.

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It’s a model of what the rest of the country would have been like had Hillary F. Clinton succeeded in stealing the election.

California was intentionally turned into a socialist state, as an example of what the rest of the country could become. The experiment worked for California, and all that was needed was for the experiment to get implemented in the rest of the country. That's what open borders and illegal immigration was/is about, where everybody, including illegals would be allowed to vote. California is the center of the fundamental transformation of the country, as Obama and democrats defines the term. California is thoroughly socialist for decades to come, and that was the goal and that's still the goal for the rest of the country.

Democrats failed to implement their agenda fast enough, and thus, they still lost a country which they were pretty sure had "advanced" far enough to make all elections fool-proof for their party. They had even taken over the schools systems, from k-12 to the college/university levels. They had taken over the press, to the point that, "freedom of the press" was mostly a joke to them, with a few sprinkles of the opposition still making waves (about 10% or so non-liberal). They had taken over the union movements. They were and are in the process of taking over the FBI and DOJ and the EPA and other federal agencies. Peter Strzok and the Ohrs and Comey and Loretta Lynch and Eric Holder, had all been appointed to insure that the democratic party agenda was safe, including to insure that no indictments or obstacles got in the way towards the liberal/socialist agenda.

There is no doubt that the democrats took advantage of their control of the White House and congress, to plant people on the inside to insure that, elections went their way, which is why democrats were all in shock when their plans didn't exactly work out. And that's also why they went out of their way to try to undo the election of Trump. They were in the process of undoing the constitutional democratic republic, and didn't care about violating any and all laws. Their goals were more important than any laws. I'm pretty sure that if anyone conducted polls regarding the composition of the FBI and DOJ and EPA, that we would discover that their composition is at least 80% democrat sympathizers.

When the dust is settled, we are going to discover that the democratic party was/is as dangerous as any political movement had ever been, and the old USSR will be seen as just a mere fraction as dangerous as the liberal/progressive movement of the democratic party. Democracy was being overturned, and it's still the goal of the democrats.

[Ohioan]

You make some very good points; but the picture is not complete unless you recognize the importance of the deliberate war on ethnic continuity--the denial of the right of peoples' to preserve and build on their unique heritages--over the past two generations. Much of the insane bias against our heritage--so evident in the California Leftist community--is strongly influenced by those who have an almost manic need to pretend that the world's peoples are interchangeable.

See Surrender By Subterfuge. I have been fighting this lunacy since my Freshman year at Oberlin, in 1952.

See also An American Immigration Policy.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Man, you said it all. Best description I ever read of that party and their plans. It really is the biggest enemy we have, Al Qaeda only wishes they could do the kind of damage that the democrat party has done to this country. I mean my God, they wanted hands down, the most corrupt politician in this nations history as President.

[morphing libertarian]

California is the model for a liberal paradise. It serves as a warning to normal people, stop that type of thinking before it’s too late.

[morphing libertarian]

There has been a lot since the 70s for Mexicans to overrun California. It is called by the conspirators La Reconquista (take back the southwest for Mexico). After a generation of talk and behind the back speeches and meetings, it is now in full effect in the open. The president of the Cal assembly and the AG are leaders of the movement. There are many on city councils like in LA. Jerry brown and the mayor of LA and Oakland are just dupes who are traitors to the us by their failure to fight the onslaught.

A few years ago on May 1st 500,000 Mexican and supporters marched in LA to support illegal immigration. I am surprised they don’t bring a million together today. Cops were attacked and injured. Mexican attorneys filed suits against the cops and the city sleeted and paid the illegals demonstrators.

Now we have Gavin Newsom running for Gov and if you can believe it he is worse than Brown. He ignored the first murders when an illegal released fro SF jail in road rage killed three members of the same family. And he and the city council blamed Fox new when Kate parents came to ask them in the face of her murder to change policy.

Citizens of california who want to stop the madness and takeover seem to be in the minority. we need a leader to stand up and rally citizens against this rebellion.

[morphing libertarian]

Has been a PLOT

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Well said. We need a cure because California is metastasizing.

[Elsie]

Jerry Brown, like his brother dictator, Kim Jong Un, has driven us to bankruptcy.

All by himself?

Who voted for him?

Doesn't Cal have a state legislature?

[Inyo-Mono]

Bookmark.

[Pelham]

We achieved ‘disgraceful’ long ago, generously helped there by Bush Republicans and Obama Democrats who never met an illegal alien that they didn’t want to give amnesty.