Sanctuary State Backlash

Californians (who supported this), lost their right to ever complain about state overreach again.

Californians (who supported this), lost their right to ever complain about state overreach again. California arrogantly tried to proclaim that federal immigration law, doesn't apply to them -- and anyone in the state that complies with the federal law, will be victimized by the government of the state.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2018-04-05

Imagine the hypocrisy -- in 2010, Arizona passed a tough anti-illegal immigration bill (SB-1070), to enforce federal law -- that the Obama administration was illegally and unconstitutionally ignoring (and failing to live up to his oath of office).

Californians screamed that federal law and powers should trump the state's rights and Arizonan's were assholes and racists for passing or trying to enforce such a thing. Please ignore that California had the same law (called 834b).

Lawsuit[edit | edit source]

In 2012, Californians cheered and got their way as activists on the Supreme Court imagined the Supremacy Clause granted the Federal Government the ability to override the state in policy, but the President had the right to ignore law or legislate from the oval office, as Obama had done (in deciding to ignore immigration enforcement). And that's why AZ was wrong to try to enforce a law that the DOJ wasn't enforcing.

Fast forward 6 years, California flipped 180° and now argued that State powers should supersede the federal (and Presidential) ones on immigration. Jerry (Moonbeam) Brown signed multiple illegal bills, into "law". Not only would some California cities not comply with federal law in sharing suspected illegal aliens felony arrest information nor comply with requests to hold suspected illegal alien violent felons for ICE, but they took it further with the following:

HB-450 - It criminalizes (prohibits) private employers from cooperating with federal agencies (ICE, or possibly the FBI). If employers do not refuse to allow federal officials onto their property (without a warrant), or they double-check an employee’s immigration status, or they don't inform employees of federal immigration efforts they know about, they face stiff fines.
SB-54 - holds all state law enforcement officials to a statewide to the “sanctuary” policy like SF had. (E.g. no information sharing with the government, under penalty of law). No release dates on criminal aliens (except a narrow set of crimes), and they can not voluntarily transfer detainees to federal custody.
HB-103 - gives the state the power to “inspect” facilities the federal government (Department of Homeland Security) uses to house suspected illegal aliens who are awaiting removal proceedings, and access to proprietary DHS documents and information.

Of course the federal government (Department of Justice) sued the state, challenging that these laws are imposing on powers of the federal government, and violate the constitution.

To quote, “California is intentionally obstructing the enforcement of federal law in violation of the Supremacy Clause", the same clause that California cheered on a few years earlier.

Legal tidbits: Article I, Section 8, Clause 4, “… To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, …” The 14th Amendment, Section 1 addresses the protection of “All persons born or naturalized in the United States,…” In 1876 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that immigration regulation was an exclusive Federal responsibility. Congress established the Immigration Service in 1891 Other immigration laws (far, far more onerous selective quotas than anything Trump has proposed) were passed in 1875,1921, 1924, 1965,1976, 1978, 1990, 1996 and 2002. None of them lead to a state writing laws that says to comply with federal law is a state crime.

City v. State[edit | edit source]

Multiple cities either opted out of the Sanctuary State law, or joined the Federal Lawsuit against their state.

Opted out: Los Alamitos
Opted out: Orange County board of supervisors
Joined DOJ Lawsuit: Mission Viejo
Filed its own Lawsuit: Huntington Beach
Joined DOJ Lawsuit: Fountain Valley
Joined DOJ Lawsuit: Aliso Viejo
Joined DOJ Lawsuit: Escondito
Joined DOJ Lawsuit: San Diego County

Conclusion[edit | edit source]

If Californians had any ethics and sense of history, they'd be truly ashamed of their leadership. Both for their actions in nosing into Arizona business, and not knowing their own skeletons at the time. Then for flipping and doing exactly what they criticized Arizona for, only much, much worse.

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