{"id":77209,"date":"2018-01-18T11:21:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T16:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77209"},"modified":"2018-01-18T11:21:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T16:21:38","slug":"feds-to-target-no-california-for-illegal-immigrant-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77209","title":{"rendered":"Feds to target No. California for illegal immigrant raids"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Houston Chronicle<\/a>, the Trump Administration plans to import Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to Northern California, specifically, the San Francisco area, to stage large scale raids, hoping to net 1500 illegal immigrants who have been ordered to leave the country or who are known immigrant criminals. The raids are seen as a Federal reaction to California Governor Brown’s signature on SB54, declaring California to be a sanctuary state for illegal immigrants;<\/p>\n

[Acting ICE Director Thomas Homan] said at the time that the federal government would not allow California to be \u201ca sanctuary state for illegal aliens,\u201d and would have no choice but to \u201cconduct at-large arrests in local neighborhoods and at worksites, which will inevitably result in additional collateral arrests, instead of focusing on arrests at jails and prisons where transfers are safer for ICE officers and the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Early this month, Homan told Fox News that \u201cCalifornia better hold on tight.\u201d He said that if local politicians \u201cdon\u2019t want to protect their communities, then ICE will.\u201d<\/p>\n

Told of the planned sweep, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein expressed outrage Tuesday, saying immigrants \u201cmust not be targeted in raids solely because they are Californians.\u201d She said a large-scale operation would show that \u201cthe administration is carrying out its enforcement actions to make a political point and not based on the security of the country.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, they are not being targeted “solely” because they live in California – they’re being targeted because they committed crimes in California against other Californians and they’ve been ordered by courts to leave the country.<\/p>\n

The statewide legislation signed by Brown limits the circumstances under which jails turn over undocumented inmates to the federal government. It also forbids police officers from arresting people on civil immigration warrants and from joining federal agents in task forces intended to enforce immigration laws.<\/p>\n

Under the Trump administration, ICE has repeatedly warned that if the agency can\u2019t detain people from local jails, it will be forced to arrest them in the communities that hold such policies.<\/p>\n

Last week, a group of politicians, including Reps. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, and Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen requesting a meeting with her and Homan to clarify the remarks he made on Fox News about stepping up enforcement in California.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe statements are a direct threat to Californians,\u201d the letter read. \u201cThese statements are reprehensible and the department\u2019s change in policy will instill fear in our communities. … Acting Director Homan\u2019s attack on sanctuary cities is not only an infringement of state rights but a direct assault on communities of color.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Way to miss the whole point, guys. The statements are a threat to Californian criminals who are in this country illegally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the Houston Chronicle, the Trump Administration plans to import Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents … Feds to target No. California for illegal immigrant raids<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illegal-immigrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}