California Seeks to Become a ‘Sanctuary State’

Much of the left really has gone off the deep end. In supporting lawlessness, they are attempting to sow seeds that might lead to major national crises. This goes way beyond expressing displeasure with President Trump, and moves into the area of committing criminal acts themselves, which is precisely what they do when they harbor illegal aliens and obstruct federal immigration authorities from doing their jobs. It’s not only absurd, but also a crime.

California is apparently not satisfied by only hosting sanctuary cities within its borders. The government wishes to turn to whole state in a “sanctuary state.” There are so many things wrong with this that it is difficult to know where to start, however it fits in nicely with ongoing efforts to get a ballot initiative in front of the people to secede from the United States.

California may prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities, creating a border-to-border sanctuary in the nation’s largest state as legislative Democrats ramp up their efforts to battle President Donald Trump’s migration policies.

The legislation is scheduled for its first public hearing Tuesday as the Senate rushes to enact measures that Democratic lawmakers say would protect immigrants from the crackdown that the Republican president has promised.

While many of California’s largest cities — including Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento — have so-called sanctuary policies that prohibit police from cooperating with immigration authorities, much of the state does not.

California’s legislators have lost it. Even if you ignore the illegality of such an action, recall that this is a state that is broke. It’s pension fund for its public employees is financial strained, and the state itself is deeply in debt. So now the state wishes to take in migrants in violation of federal laws who will not pay takes, but instead will be yet another drain on the state’s finances.

The Judiciary Committee will also consider fast-tracked legislation that would spend state money, in an amount that has not been disclosed, to provide lawyers for people facing deportation.

“An amount that has not been disclosed” — that figures. And it also explains the sort of thinking that has gotten California into financial trouble in the first place.

While not all illegal immigrants are violent some are.

The debate over sanctuary cities reached a fevered pitch in 2015 after Kate Steinle, 32, was fatally shot in the back Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, who was in the country illegally after multiple deportations to his native Mexico. Lopez-Sanchez, who told police the gun fired by accident, had been released from a San Francisco jail despite a request from federal immigration authorities that he be held in custody for possible deportation.

We are a nation of laws, and must be if our form of government is to function. It is outrageous when state and local authorities take official actions to thwart legitimate federal law enforcement efforts. Not only is it outrageous, but it is criminal. Perhaps if some of those authorities were arrested for their crimes, others would reconsider these acts of rebellion.

Source:  CBS News