The Califonia Attorney General probably speaks for a large group of cities and states that are NOT gonna have their cops go out their way to enforce immigration law, which is the sole responsibility of the Federal Government…
The attack against Santuary cities and States isn’t gonna have local/state cops fighting with Federal Immigration agents…
Nor is it gonna have the Feds locking up Mayor’s and Governor’s….
THIS IS just noise…
Aimed at Trump supporters and immigrants….
California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Wednesday condemned a memo from the Trump administration threatening the prosecution of state and local officials who resist or refuse to comply with federal immigration enforcement agents, calling it a “scare tactic.”
“The President is attempting to intimidate and bully state and local law enforcement into carrying out his mass deportation agenda for him,” Bonta said in a statement.
Bonta, a Democrat who is poised to become one of the top antagonists to the Trump administration, said he is prepared to take legal action if the “vague threats turn to illegal action.” He has already joined a lawsuit over President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship and has pledged to enforce a 2018 state law, SB 54, that limits local law enforcement’s cooperation with federal immigration authorities….
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In his response, Bonta noted that SB 54 survived a legal challenge from Trump in 2019.
“SB 54 does not prevent state and local law enforcement from investigating and prosecuting crimes,” Bonta said. “Nor does it prevent federal agencies from conducting immigration enforcement themselves; what it says is that they cannot make us do their jobs for them.”….
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A look at the beginning of the Trump admin immigration policy…
It has been less than three days since President Trump took office, but the immigration transformation he ordered has already begun.
The Pentagon deployed 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border on Wednesday. The head of the nation’s immigration courts was fired, along with three other senior officials. In Mexico, about 30,000 immigrants with asylum appointments arrived to find them canceled. More than 10,400 refugees around the globe who had been approved for travel to the United States suddenly found their entry denied, their airplane tickets worthless.
“All previously scheduled travel of refugees to the United States is being canceled, and no new travel bookings will be made,” Kathryn Anderson, a top State Department official, wrote in an email late Tuesday night.
The scope of the immigration changes laid out in scores of executive orders, presidential memorandums and policy directives is extraordinary, even when compared with the expansive agenda that Mr. Trump pursued in the first four years he occupied the White House.
But many directives will take time to be implemented, or will face political, legal or practical obstacles. Some will be put on hold by skeptical judges. Others will require research or development by the alphabet soup of agencies involved in crafting immigration policy. Still more will require enormous amounts of money from Congress, triggering yet another fight over resources and priorities.
At least three lawsuits have already been filed in federal court to stop Mr. Trump’s plan to reinterpret the 14th Amendment guarantee to birthright citizenship. The revival of Mr. Trump’s travel ban requires a 60-day review of which countries should be affected.
Mr. Trump will still need billions of dollars for detention space and additional agents for his promised “mass deportations.” A directive by the Justice Department to investigate officials in so-called sanctuary cities who obstruct the administration’s immigration agenda will unfold over weeks and months as conflicts emerge.
As a result, the exact shape of a system that helps define America’s place in a world grappling with issues of mass migration, inequality and national identity will not be known for weeks, months or even years….
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