Posted on 02/26/2018 11:20:54 AM PST by WisconsinRep
The mayor of a sanctuary city in California issued a warning that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could be conducting a raid in the area as soon as Sunday ratcheting up tension with the feds while giving her constituents an early heads-up.
Libby Schaaf, the Democratic mayor of Oakland, shared the warning which she said she learned from multiple credible sources in a press release on Saturday, not to panic our residents but to protect them, Fox 2 reported.
The mayor said she didnt know further details of the ICE operation, but claimed she felt it was her duty and moral obligation as Mayor to give those families fair warning when that threat appears imminent.
The feds detained at least four people Sunday, a program manager for the San Francisco Immigrant Legal Education Network told the San Francisco Examiner, although the paper noted it was unclear if the detentions were related to any broader ICE operation.
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Attention! Attention! Don’t show up to work. Hide out so ICE doesn’t nab you. Good time to take a trip down south to visit grandma. But y’all come back, ya hear, for the government freebies after the raids.
ICE agents wearing their gear should walk around town for a day, leave and come back in a week, unannounced.
Libby is toast. This wont win her a second term.
My b-in-law is an ICE agent. A couple of years ago they were sitting around playing video games.....literally. Now they are actually picking up illegals. Something has changed
Wonder what her address is so when ICE comes for those who are illegal they all have a safe place to go and set up tents....
She should be arrested for obstruction of justice. I want her arrested...Mayor and JD be damned. She absolutely knows better.
This could backfire on the mayor for a simple reason. Illegal immigration, and residency, is very publicity driven. When there is publicity in northern Mexico that crossing is hard and dangerous and the chances for getting caught are high, the flow across the border slows to a trickle.
Conversely, when Arizona passed a law designed to clamp down on illegal aliens, a lot of them beat feet an left AZ for good.
So what ICE should do is act like this mayor *is on their side*, and reinforce that ICE is coming, and it is going to round up the illegals and deport them from the whole city.
Of course ICE has no intentions of doing this, nor does it have the resources. But that doesn’t matter. What would the mayor of Oakland do if suddenly hundreds, or even thousands of illegal aliens bugged out?
If they owned property they will sell it at a loss, and it will be snapped up for redevelopment. Since California already has a labor shortage because of their $15/hr wage, if the illegals leave, it may cause a lot of businesses to shut their doors.
etc.
Hey JEFFY! I know where a leak is! Right over there!!!
I called Ms Schaafs office at 510-238-3141
I told the young man that answered I was very disappointed with the mayors new discrinitory policy. He said oh which one?
I said that she is warning illegal immigrants they could be arrested! why discriminate against the drug dealers, drunk drivers rapists and bank robbers. He hung up on me LoL.
Why should ICE notify the mayor of any impending actions?
I said that she is warning illegal immigrants they could be arrested! why discriminate against the drug dealers, drunk drivers rapists and bank robbers. He hung up on me LoL.
Bet that was fun! :)
Let all the illegals move to Kali - put all the nuts in one basket.
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