Posted on 03/01/2018 2:03:06 PM PST by Kaslin
Yesterday John talked about the ICE response to Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf tipping off the illegal aliens in her community to an impending immigration enforcement sweep. A request has been made to have the Department of Justice look into this act of lawbreaking and determine if some form of charges would be appropriate. The Deputy Director of ICE has since gone on to suggest some specifics.
ICE Deputy Director Thomas D. Homan, however, had a different idea of what she was trying to do, saying on Tuesday that he believed some of the 864 “criminal aliens” that still remained at large “were able to elude us thanks to the mayor’s irresponsible decision.”
“Sanctuary jurisdictions like San Francisco and Oakland shield dangerous criminal aliens from federal law enforcement at the expense of public safety,” Homan said in a statement. “The Oakland mayor’s decision to publicize her suspicions about ICE operations further increased [risks] for my officers and alerted criminal aliens — making clear that this reckless decision was based on her political agenda with the very federal laws that ICE is sworn to uphold.”
Being an elected official who is potentially facing felony charges of aiding and abetting criminal illegal aliens might put most politicians off their feed, but not Mayor Schaaf. She’s been busily granting interviews and seems eager to discuss her obstruction with anyone willing to listen. That includes one session with the Washington Post, where she seemed almost gleeful in wearing the #RESIST badge.
Asked by The Post whether she considered herself part of “the resistance” movement — the unofficial title for left-leaning Americans who do not support the Trump administration — she responded with a resounding yes.
“I consider myself a law-abiding citizen. I consider myself a believer in an American democracy that moves towards a more just society. And I definitely consider myself part of the resistance,” she said.
At this point, I’m guessing that Schaaf is betting that Trump and Jeff Sessions would never actually bring charges against her. Under the normal rules of political warfare, sending in officers to haul an elected mayor of a major city out in handcuffs would set off a firestorm which your average politician would run away from like the wind. Of course, Trump is no ordinary politician and, in fact, seems to revel in a good fight. If the Attorney General can come up with some charges which he believes will stick, I wouldn’t put it past him at all.
But what does Libby Schaaf get out of all this? Well, for one thing, her national approval and name recognition on the left has just shot up by 1000% or more. She’s 52 years old, which leaves plenty of room for future political opportunities. For all I know, she’s actually put herself in position for a national office run, or perhaps a cabinet position in a future Democratic administration.
Of course, that all relies on her not being in prison, or at least getting a pardon as soon as control of the White House changes hands again.
Doubling down on arrogance and stupidity.
Stop the money flow to sanctuary cities. Why give them the money I pay in taxes while following the law.
Stop the money flow to sanctuary cities. Why give them the money I pay in taxes while following the law.
I’m really hoping she did, in fact, commit a felony here, but I need to know specifically what law she violated.
And then she should be arrested.
The left does not have to obey any law they disagree with.
They are also the first ones to run to a liberal judge to rule over the rest of us by judicial edict. And don’t you dare question it.
Kind of interesting how that works.
Can’t wait for the perp walk.
The federal government is going to purchase some balls somewhere, and then man up.
Hey lawyers:
Couldn’t the victims of illegal alien crime file a class action suit against her and/or the city for damages?
Demonic Party vermin are always “unapologetic”, because no one ever holds them accountable. If some gutless wonders in the DOJ would arrest them, indict, and prosecute them, I’m guessing fewer and fewer of these POS scumbags would continue to endanger the country and its citizens.
Demonic Party vermin are always “unapologetic”, because no one ever holds them accountable. If some gutless wonders in the DOJ would arrest them, indict, and prosecute them, I’m guessing fewer and fewer of these POS scumbags would continue to endanger the country and its citizens.
Ditto, Almost, All Other U.S. City Mayors. They are, almost, all the same with practicing far leftist politics.
And of course Session is thinking about this long and hard. Wiggling his elf ears.
” A request has been made to have the Department of Justice look into this act of lawbreaking and determine if some form of charges would be appropriate. The Deputy Director of ICE has since gone on to suggest some specifics.”
Talk, talk, talk. Will somebody over at Justice get off their sorry @sses and start charging these politicians for obstruction of justice and get them in handcuffs. Until then they’ll act with impunity.
Of course. We get to choose our sex and our race today, why not whether we're criminals or not.
ITEM-—If Mayor Schaff signed off on falsified official documents, its a criminal RICO case....... as well as an asset forfeiture matter.
ITEM-—anyone can file a RICO-—you dont need a lawyer-—plenty of how-tos on the net.
ITEM—Besides government fraud, misuse of public office, confiscation of tax dollars, etc, it is also possible that Mayor Schaff and other Oakland officials committed other federal offenses including but not limited to:
<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §1341, Mail Fraud, 18 U.S.C.§1001, Presenting a False Document to an Agent of the US Government (involves several felonies and could include forgery);
<><> 18 U.S.C.§1027 False statements and concealment of facts in relation to documents required by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and other possible offenses including civil and/or criminal RICO violations.
<><> 18 U.S.C. §§1961-68 (RICO Act)18 U.S.C. §1001 (making false Statements to Agents of the US Government),
<><> 18 U.S.C. §241 (Conspiracies Against Civil Rights)
<><> Mobilization of full investigations centering on her involvement in RICO conspiracies under 18 U.S.C. §1962(c) could be warranted because (1) she is employed by or associated with an enterprise (2) that engaged in undermining public safety and adversely affected interstate commerce and that (3) Mayor Shaff managed the enterprise (4) through a “pattern” (5) of racketeering activity, and that (6) the taxpayers and children of taxpayers were injured by reason of a “pattern” of racketeering activity.
<><> Alleged Offenses could include Violation of Title 18 U.S.C. §241 – Conspiracy Against Constitutional Rights – which prohibits in relevant part, “two or more persons (from conspiring) to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same . . .” See, 18 U.S.C. §241.
Taxpayers demand investigations by the following agencies commence at once:
<><> FBI — Wire Fraud Division
<><> IRS-Fraud Unit
<><> Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General,
<><> Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General.
<><> DOJ’s Criminal Division— Public Integrity Section
<><> DOJ Criminal Division—Organized Crime and Gang Section.
<><>Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division
<><> U.S. Dept of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security
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Its amazing, the Democrats are defying the federal government just as they did in 1861 and fired on Ft Sumter to protect the slaves they had then. Now they want to protect their Mexican and Chinese slaves that are here illegally and working for sub-standard wages
As a former Oakland resident, and current resident of the greater Bay Area, Trump should really follow through on his promise to pull ICE out of California. In fact, I think swing states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan and Minnesota could make much better use of them.
That’s called borderline Fascism
This mayor just gave The Elf a golden shower.
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