Barr Goes After Criminal "Sanctuary Cities"

[Bush92]

These places are cesspools of crime, drugs, and violation of federal law.
Barr announces sweeping new sanctions, 'significant escalation' against left-wing sanctuary cities

 

[gipper]

I thought he was working on taking down the coup perps.

 

[Zorro!]

These places are cesspools of crime, drugs, and violation of federal law.
Barr announces sweeping new sanctions, 'significant escalation' against left-wing sanctuary cities

BOOM: ICE Throws Down the Gauntlet, Arresting Two Illegal Aliens in a California Courthouse.

We'll see if Democrats are again ready to fire on Fort Sumpter.

ICE agents arrested two illegal aliens in a courthouse in Northern California, defying a state law that says they needed a warrant from a judge to do so.

ICE flouted a new state law that requires the warrant before arresting an illegal on courthouse grounds. After the predictable outcry from courthouse officials and others, ICE calmly gave their rationale.

Los Angeles Times:

ICE said in a statement that California’s law doesn’t supersede federal law and “will not govern the conduct of federal officers acting pursuant to duly enacted laws passed by Congress that provide the authority to make administrative arrests of removable aliens inside the United States.”​

“Our officers will not have their hands tied by sanctuary rules when enforcing immigration laws to remove criminal aliens from our communities,” David Jennings, ICE’s field office director in San Francisco, said in the statement.​

In other words, ICE is telling them to go suck an egg.

ICE's actions follow the deployment of Customs and Border Patrol agents to sanctuary cities and states. The state government of California bitterly criticized that move, but find themselves unable to do anything to prevent it. The Department of Homeland Security, the agency under which ICE and CBP operate, can send its personnel anywhere they see fit to send them.

Critics of the arrests dragged out the usual excuse: illegals will now hesitate before helping the police or participating in the legal system.

ICE said both men had been arrested by immigration officers numerous times from 2004 to 2010 and returned to Mexico several times.
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The illegals don't respect the judicial system anyway. If they did, they wouldn't be illegal in the first place.

The Supremacy Clause (Article VI) makes state law that conflicts with federal law inoperative. There are no strictures ever passed by Congress on where immigration arrests can be made.