LA Mayor Karen Bass is wasting a quarter of a milllon dollars on anti-ICE “keep out” signs that have no legal force. Their only effect is to send a political message about her anti-ICE views in an election.
In other words, the signs are just virtue signaling — literally.
Immigration is a federal issue. Democrats forget that, when they declare cities or states to be “sanctuary” jurisdictions.
But it was the Obama administration that confirmed that the federal government has sole control of border and immigration enforcement. Obama’s Department of Justice, under “wingman” Eric Holder, sued Arizona, which had passed a law allowing police to check the immigration status of people they stopped for other suspected violations.
Arizona lost in the Supreme Court in 2012. And the Court has upheld federal power — adding that the president has almost total control of immigration policy.
That doesn’t mean states and cities have to cooperate. Federal judges have also upheld the power of state and local governments to decline to help immigration enforcement.
But they are not allowed to obstruct it, either.
Lead federal prosecutor Bill Essayli called the signs “null and void.” He alsoaddedthat they were “silly.”
Actually, they are deadly serious: They are an effort to use public money to shore up the mayor’s credentials with “progressive” voters ahead of a bitterly contested primary election.
Bass knows that she faces a reckoning. Angelenos are upset about the state of the city. Many hold her responsible for LA’s mismanagement of the wildfires last year. And while homelessness has declined, it is still at unacceptable levels.
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