Washington sues California for illegal immigrants

The war of words between the Washington administration’s right and the California’s leftist government has moved to the legal plane: the US Justice Department filed a lawsuit against California, its Democratic Governor Jerry Brown, and Javier Becerra, the state attorney general.

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Federal Justice Department asks the court to declare three new California laws to protect illegal migrants as contrary to the US Constitution, reports Air force.

California has declared itself a refugee state and refuses to help the feds identify, detain and deport illegal immigrants, including criminals.

Laws challenging the Ministry of Justice and its head, Jeff Sessions, prohibit the Californian police from finding out from detainees on what grounds they are in the country and handing over illegal immigrants into the hands of the Border Guard or the Immigration Department of ICE.

Entrepreneurs are not allowed to cooperate with ICE, for example, to provide documentation to their employees for federal employees without a court order. Violators of the ban are punished with a fine of up to 10 thousand dollars.

The owners are also required to warn their employees about the upcoming 72 raid.

The Justice Ministry says that these laws violate the constitution and federal law, which has an advantage over local.

Supporters of these laws argue that if the local police help the feds, the illegal migrants will stop complaining to her about the criminals and supply information to them.

The feds and their supporters object that these fears are not supported by empirical experience or scientific research, and they say that defenders of illegal immigrants are guided by an open border ideology and a desire to increase the electorate of the Democratic Party, for which the majority of Latin Americans vote.

The latter constitute the vast majority of illegal immigrants.

The lawsuit, which may be delayed for months or even years, was instituted in the California capital Sacramento, whose federal court is considered more conservative than the courts of Los Angeles and San Francisco. This apparently explains why the choice of Sessions focused on Sacramento.

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On the other hand, the losing party will protest the decision of the court of first instance in the court of appeal of the 9 district, which is considered the most liberal in the country. On the third hand, the overwhelming majority of the decisions of this court of appeal are then rejected by the US Supreme Court.

The petition of the Justice Ministry is accompanied by a memorandum of Rodney Scott, who commands the border guard patrols in the San Diego sector. The note states that California not only refuses to help the feds, but also actively sabotages their activities.

Scott, for example, tells how his people stopped the car, suspecting that the driver does not have a residence permit in the United States. Suspicions were not confirmed, but it turned out that the driver was drunk. The border guards called the local police, who refused to accept the detainee, because he was stopped on the highway as part of the fight against illegal immigrants. The patrolmen had nowhere to put him, and they let him go on all four sides, although he was clearly drunk.

Or, the policeman somehow stopped a van with fake numbers on the highway, in which 77 illegals found themselves. Scott's subordinate rode past, stopping to help a fellow cop. As Scott writes to the court, if the border guard had passed by, then a California policeman would simply release the driver and his live load. The border guard also detained them. The traffic police then complained about what happened, because they did not want her to fly in from the authorities for complicity in detaining illegal immigrants.

According to Scott, the border guards and the ICE no longer send the illegal immigrants detained by them to serve the old crimes for the local authorities: the feds fear that they will not be returned to them for deportation.

California Gov. Brown, who signed the laws last year that prompted Sessions' protests, dismissively refers to him as simply Jeff and "the boys from Alabama," which Sessions used to represent in the U.S. Senate.

Brown says Sessions filed the lawsuit against him in order to “grease up” to Trump, who cannot forgive the Justice Secretary for withdrawing from Russiagate and therefore being unable to rein in special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating the scandal.

Speaking at a press conference, Brown said he had not heard of the incidents mentioned in the lawsuit, and denied that the new Californian laws complicate the fight against crime.

"It is not true! - the governor snapped. “We know that the Trump administration is full of liars. They have already confessed to the special prosecutor.”

Brown was referring to Trump headquarters such as George Papadopoulos, Rick Gates and Michael Flynn, who confessed to the lies of the FBI.

One of the feds' main complaints is that the administration of California prisons does not warn them in advance about the release of illegal immigrants at the end of their sentences, or only a few minutes. Therefore, they do not have time to intercept the illegal immigrant at the prison gates and are then forced to chase him around the city and detain him at the risk of their own lives and those of the local population. That's what Sessions says, anyway.

According to Brown, Californian law does not prevent federal forces from coming to prisons, which do not hide from them the documentation on the release of prisoners.

“What Jeff Sessions said is simply not true, and I call on him to apologize to Californians,” the governor said. As he writes New York Times, Brown and Attorney General Becerra, who are vehement opponents of Trump and Sessions' hard line on immigration, "have vowed to uphold the progressive values ​​they believe California embodies."

The US Justice Department is suing individual states for the first time. The Obama administration, for example, sued North Carolina, which broke up with her about separate toilets for transgender people. Having become the head of the Ministry of Justice, Sessions has withdrawn this lawsuit.

Friction between Californians and Feds became even more aggravated the other day, when Auckland Mayor Libby Sheyf informed the local illegal immigrants of the upcoming raid ahead of time and publicly.

ICE Chief Thomas Howman likened the mayor to "a bandit standing on guard and yelling, 'Police!' Thanks to this warning, the feds detained only 200 illegal immigrants in Oakland instead of the expected thousand, he said.

Legal scholars assess the outlook for a SES case in different ways. Most say that Washington, according to the constitution, has no right to force state law enforcement agencies to submit to the feds.

The ban on private businesses helping ICE to hunt for illegal immigrants, on the other hand, is unlikely to be supported by the courts, lawyers say.

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