{"id":16610,"date":"2018-03-08T11:20:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T16:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=16610"},"modified":"2018-12-28T10:45:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:45:54","slug":"doj-takes-aim-sanctuary-sickness-spreading-california-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/03\/08\/doj-takes-aim-sanctuary-sickness-spreading-california-late\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Takes Aim at Sanctuary Sickness Spreading Through California, But is it Too Late?"},"content":{"rendered":"
For more than a year, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions seemed content to tolerate California passing new laws intended to hobble federal immigration authorities and failing to cooperate with the federal government to enforce \u00a0immigration law. However, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf\u2019s reckless and possibly illegal decision to publicly tip illegal aliens to pending Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enforcement actions apparently crossed the line.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo here\u2019s my message to Mayor Schaaf: How dare you.\u00a0 How dare you needlessly endanger the lives of law enforcement just to promote your radical open borders agenda,\u201d declared<\/a> Sessions today in a speech to the California Peace Officers’ Association.<\/p>\n The address came mere hours after the Justice Department filed suit against the Golden State arguing that its sanctuary laws violate the U.S. Constitution\u2019s Supremacy Clause, which \u00a0clearly states that federal law overrides state law when a conflict exists.<\/p>\n Sessions arrived in Sacramento with some wind at his back. On Monday, Judge William Orrick of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, denied California\u2019s request to block the Trump administration from withholding law enforcement grants to jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with Federal immigration officers carrying out their responsibility to enforce U.S. immigration law.<\/p>\n In his 28-page opinion, Orrick rebuffed California writing that \u201cthe injury threatened is not irreparable\u201d and the amount of any withheld funding \u201cis small compared to the state\u2019s budget.\u201d<\/p>\n In February, California filed a nine-page\u00a0complaint<\/a>\u00a0against the Justice Department for all records related to eligibility requirements for the $385 million Federal grant at issue.<\/p>\n The ruling was a setback for California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who has invested both energy and funding into obstructing the Trump administration\u2019s enforcement efforts.<\/p>\n