The woke politicians behind “sanctuary” laws from New York to California have zero shame: Their cause trumps any danger to their constituents.
Witness the latest outrage in the border crisis, a Colombian sex offender let go to roam the streets of San Bernardino County rather than being deported.
Cali Assemblyman Bill Essayli thundered on X, “San Bernardino was FORCED” by the sanctuary-state law “to protect this pedophile.”
Dead right.
The California Values Act of 2017 (lunatic legislation born of demented anti-Trump fervor) forbids cops from asking about criminals’ immigration status, as well as from notifying ICE or Border Patrol when illegals who commit crimes get released from custody.
The story in New York as grim.
Yes, ICE managed to grab up for deportation most of the vicious thieves who robbed a Target and assaulted cops in Manhattan — and that’s great news.
But it happened despite city law, not because of it.
Gotham’s “sanctuary city” laws block cops from notifying ICE about illegal perps and even from honoring “detainers” (notifications from feds that this or that person should be held, pending ICE’s decision to take them into custody).
In other words, lefties across the country haven’t only decided that illegal immigration and the crime and violence it brings with it are good and must be encouraged, they’ve ordered a brazen middle finger to crime victims and law-abiding citizens.
For the open-borders left, it’s far more important that the inflows never cease, no matter how many rapists and murderers skip across — and that border-jumpers face no real enforcement once they have one foot on US land.
The message is clear: Average Americans don’t matter, and anyone who says otherwise is a racist.