Re: Don't Look So Surprised, LA. Trump TOLD YOU He'd Sue You for Illegal Alien Sanctuary Policies

On 7/1/25 14:36, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
> https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/07/01/dont-look-so-surprised-la-
> trump-told-you-hed-sue-you-for-harboring-illegal-aliens-n4941333
> 
> Los Angeles is in "find out" mode after the Trump administration fired a
> legal bunker buster against the city, its mayor, and city council for
> protecting illegal aliens and "obstructing" federal immigration
> authorities. The lawsuit will test whether local law supersedes federal
> law.
> 
It will be interesting!!

> The lawsuit, filed late Monday, targets the city's hastily passed
> ordinance in December 2024, right after Donald Trump won his presidential
> election on the promise that he would deport Joe Biden's "21 million"
> illegal aliens from all over the world who had little if any vetting. Some
> 300,000 children were trafficked over the border to work in factories,
> meet up with family members, or work in the sex trade. Fit, military-age
> males poured over the border — even an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard
> member, and several people on the official Terror Watch List snuck over
> the border.
> 
> Attorney General Pam Bondi said that L.A.'s law protected illegal aliens
> over American citizens.
> 
> 
> The Vigilant Fox ??
> @VigilantFox
> “It Ends, and It Ends Now”: Pam Bondi Unleashes Federal Crackdown on
> Sanctuary Cities
> 
> “They were prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens… these
> sanctuary policies are the root of the cause of violent crime in our
> country.”
> 
> LA. NY. IL. NJ. CO. MN.
> 
> It's believed that Joe Biden's open border emboldened malign bad hombres
> from all over the world to sneak in and wait for the opportunity to hurt
> Americans. Whoever was President Autopen opened the doors to America
> haters from every corner of the globe without respect to the safety of
> U.S. citizens or the nation's sovereignty.
> 
> Joe Biden's dereliction of duty will be remembered for what it is: the
> most contemptuous, grotesque, and dangerous attack on the American
> citizenry by a president.
> 
> Mayor Karen Bass signed the targeted Los Angeles Ordinance Number 188441,
> called the "Prohibition of the Use of City Resources for Federal
> Immigration Enforcement,” into law. It doubled down on the city's pro-
> illegal immigration policies, forbidding city employees from cooperating
> with federal immigration policies. The Justice Department declares that
> "The express purpose of Los Angeles’s Sanctuary City law is to thwart
> Immigration and Customs Enforcement ('ICE') and Customs and Border
> Protection('CBP') from carrying out their statutory obligations as
> directed by Congress."
> 
> Related: The Left Is Hiding Something Truly Evil With Its BIG LIE About
> the LA Riots
> 
> And, indeed, it was passed to do just that. We know this because the
> mayor, city council, and the president of the council said so, following
> Gov. Gavin Newsom's vow to "Trump proof" California. The lawsuit states
> that the city council made clear it would "refuse to stand back while
> Donald Trump tries to deport our neighbors, family, friends, and
> coworkers.”
> 
> The contempt for federal law was especially acute after Immigration and
> Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security began
> operations in the city on June 6. After the first operation to serve a
> warrant at an alleged cartel-connected money laundering outfit, the
> council blamed subsequent riots, looting, and fiery protests on the feds
> instead of the NGO-inspired rioters themselves. I wrote about it in two
> pieces called "The Feds Are Investigating the Dark Money Bankrolling the
> L.A. Riots" and "Who's Paying for the Violent L.A. Protests Against ICE?
> You Are."
> 
> City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson said that “[i]f we know
> somebody is coming here to do warrantless abductions of the residents of
> this city, those are not our partners . . . . I don’t care what badge they
> have on or whose orders they’re under. They’re not our partners [emphasis
> added]."
> 
> Bass went further, claiming that ICE has been operating in the City of Los
> Angeles merely “as a pretext to federalize the National Guard.” We imagine
> this lawsuit will worsen her already feverish case of Trump Derangement
> Syndrome.
> 
> City Councilmember Imelda Padilla, also afflicted with TDS, asked the
> police chief to obstruct justice by tipping off "our friends" about ICE's
> enforcement actions. I wrote about this in this story, "City Official Asks
> LA Police Chief to Obstruct Justice."
> 
> Related: Here's Why the Mobs Mysteriously Show Up Out of Nowhere at ICE
> Raids and Protests
> 
> The lawsuit charges the City of Los Angeles, Bass, Harris-Dawson's with
> three charges of obstructing and discriminating against federal
> authorities in violation of federal statute "8 U.S.C. งง 1373, 8 U.S.C. ง
> 1373(a), and1644 by forbidding LAPD and other law enforcement officers and
> officials from communicating with ICE or CBP regarding a detainee’s
> citizenship or immigration status."
> 
> L.A. thought it would get a free pass for quickly instituting the
> ordinance under an "urgency order" to strengthen its "sanctuary" or
> "welcoming communities" policies, but the ideologically and TDS-infused
> act will give the American public yet another front-row seat to a federal
> legal battle that will show that there's a Supremacy Clause for a reason.
> 
> That was a spoiler alert.
> 
> The last time the Supreme Court upheld the Supremacy Clause was in 2022,
> when the court UNANIMOUSLY RULED against Washington State for — wait for
> it — "discriminating against the Federal Government," about a workers'
> compensation dispute. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the court and said,
> "Washington’s law violates these principles by singling out the Federal
> Government for unfavorable treatment." Sound familiar? He also concluded
> that "preventing discrimination against the Federal Government lies at the
> heart of the Constitution’s intergovernmental immunity doctrine."
> 
> Even Karen Bass can understand that.
> 
> Oh, and when the Trump administration wins this case, unless Barack Obama-
> appointed California U.S. District Judge Fernando Olguin, to whom the case
> is assigned, is a total whackadoodle-doo, Bondi wants the city to pay the
> feds' legal bills.
> 
> Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
> 
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