Sanctuary City Imports A Dying Breed?

Besides “Sanctuary Cities” existing on flimsy constitutional ground & their perps risking legal liability, Trump’s incoming border czar issues another reality check: ICE doesn’t need their help in hunting down criminal illegal aliens  …

As Fox News’ Andrew McCarthy noted after listening to Trump’s designate Tom Homan, what’s been key to enforcing (or NOT) US immigration law isn’t so much what local officials do or don’t do, but the DC Swamp’s backing up ICE’s front line troops trying to do their jobs. Joe Biden & Mayorkas “refused” that mandate, even threw up a tidal wave of obstacles for ICE. But now, with a new POTUS empowering Homan & others hired to secure Biden’s open border, McCarthy suggests, it’s going to be a whole new ball game: “In context, Homan was [asked] about Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, who has vowed that the city would protect non-citizens in ‘every possible way’ from the Trump Administration’s plan for large-scale deportation.” As Homan pointed out, it’ a federal FELONY to “knowingly or recklessly disregard that an alien has entered, or remains in the US in violation of law” and/or conceals or shields them from detection,

And, yet, regardless, Homan has also made it clear in various public forums that ICE already has the wherewithal to ID, arrest & incarcerate the worst illegal criminals on its own. That is, so long as they are backed by the US Attorney General’s office now also under Trump’s executive umbrella, as well as the US Supreme & lower federal appeals courts, who have repeatedly ruled they would “not countenance the actions of state & city officials who violate federal immigration law & obstruct federal enforcement of incontestably constitutional immigration laws.” Concluded McCarthy: “In essence, I hear Tom Homan saying that the era of sanctuary cities is over. I hope that is true.”

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