Judge Issues Surprise Ruling On Withholding Funds For Sanctuary State

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Judge Issues Surprise Ruling On Withholding Funds For Sanctuary State

JAZZ SHAWPosted at 9:21 am on March 6, 2018

If you are a noncompliant jurisdiction in terms of cooperating with immigration enforcement and you take the White House to court, demanding that you receive your Justice Department grant money anyway, be careful what you wish for. Sure, if you shop around for the right judge you can probably get a ruling in your favor, at least until it reaches the Supreme Court. But if your claim is outrageous enough, you never know what might happen.

That seems to be the case with California this week. They went so far as to declare that the entire state was a sanctuary for criminal illegal aliens but demanded that Uncle Sam keep dishing out the grant money anyway. In a somewhat surprising turn of events, a district judge in Northern California (!) has ruled that the government doesn’t have to pony up the cash until the matter can be hashed out fully in court. (Washington Times)    

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Department of Justice sues California over 'sanctuary' status

Kelly Cohen

Mar 6, 2018

The Department of Justice is taking action against the state of California — including Gov. Jerry Brown and Attorney General Xavier Becerra — for three laws they say obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration law. The Justice Department's lawsuit — filed in federal court in Sacramento Tuesday night — is asking for Assembly Bill 450, Senate Bill 54, and Assembly Bill 103 to be nullified statewide.

Justice Department officials told reporters Tuesday ahead of the filing that the three laws — which were all passed within the past year — are pre-empted by federal law and therefore violate the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution. “California has chosen to purposefully contradict the will and responsibility of Congress,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said in a statement, applauding the Justice Department’s lawsuit.

According to the Justice Department, the agency is still reviewing other laws California has enacted to see if they violate federal immigration law. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is expected to elaborate on the lawsuit Wednesday when speaking to the California Peace Officers Association in San Diego, and will call the California laws “unjust, unfair and unconstitutional,” according to his prepared remarks.

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ICE: Sanctuary City Mayor's Warning Helped Illegal Immigrants Evade Capture. Here Are Some Of The Crimes They've Committed.

James Barrett

March 7, 2018

On Tuesday night, the Trump Justice Department sued the state of California over its defiance of federal law through its various "sanctuary state" policies, which shield illegal immigrants, including those with criminal records, from federal immigration authorities. The lawsuit comes just over a week after progressive Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf tipped off illegal immigrants in her area about an ICE sweep. ICE has since provided some more details about the kinds of people who were able to evade capture after Schaaf's potentially illegal warning.

On Feb. 24, Schaaf issued a public statement about a series of potential ICE raids she said she'd learned about from "multiple credible sources." Here's the statement she tweeted out:

 

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CE has now revealed more specifics about the criminal illegal immigrants arrested as well as the 800 or so who managed to evade capture, potentially because of Schaaf's tip-off.

In a four-day raid, ICE arrested 232 illegal immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area. Of those, 180 were convicted criminals, had been deported before, or had been given final orders to leave the U.S., said ICE. About half of those arrested, 115 "had prior felony convictions for serious or violent offenses, such as child sex crimes, weapons charges and assault, or had past convictions for significant or multiple misdemeanors."

Fox News dug a little deeper and learned that among the crimes committed were "aggravated assault, murder, hit-run, lewd acts with a minor, burglary, cruelty toward a child, indecent exposure, domestic violence, drug trafficking, battery, sex offenses and false imprisonment."

An ICE spokesperson also provided the outlet more details about some of the 800 criminal illegal immigrants who evaded capture last week:

 

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