Thread: L.A. Times Columnist Amazed: Democrats Won’t Protect Public from Illegal Alien Felons

by JOEL B. POLLAK
30 Mar 2017

Los Angeles Times columnist George Skelton published a column Thursday morning in which he marveled at the fact that Democrats in the state legislature cannot bring themselves to ensure the deportation of violent illegal alien felons.

In the column, Skelton declared his sympathy for the Democrats’ general aim, in “sanctuary state” legislation, of allowing illegal aliens to stay in the country. “OK. If they’re hard working and obeying the law, fine,” he wrote.

Yet he noted that Democrats were shutting down “perfectly sensible” Republican bills that would allow — not require — local law enforcement to contact federal immigration officials if they were about to release an illegal alien who had already served a previous sentence. Instead of discussing the bill, though, Democrats in the State Assembly Public Safety Committee spent the entire debate discussing irrelevant national politics and attacking President Donald Trump.

The committee chair, Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles), Skelton notes, launched into a discussion in which he compared Trump to Hitler and compared the present day to the 1930s and 1940s in Nazi Germany.

Skelton observes: “So a rational discussion about illegal immigration and crooks doesn’t seem likely.” Skelton also noted that the current legislation proposed by Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles), SB 54, does not actually fulfill his promise of keeping violent felons off the streets.

“The last thing California needs is more dangerous criminals. Send them packing. And Democrats should say that clearly,” Skelton concludes. He worries that unless Democrats make it clear that violent felons will be deported, reasonable citizens — as well as “the hotheads who are constantly riled up about all illegal immigration” — would have good cause to object to De León’s bill.

Separately, several mayors in San Diego County protested SB 54 on Thursday, according to local ABC News affiliate 10 News. One mayor was quoted as saying that the “sanctuary state” bill would “would sever the lines of communication between local law enforcement and state and federal agencies.”

http://www.breitbart.com/california/...llegal-aliens/

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San Diego-area mayors stand together to oppose making California a sanctuary state

The interactive map, created by CIS experts Jessica Vaughan and Byran Griffith, reveals

the U.S. counties with the most criminal alien removals by the Secure Communities program were:

Los Angeles County, CA with 35,750 removals,

Maricopa County, AZ (Sheriff Joe) with 27,361 removals,

and Harris County, TX with 25,564 removals.

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County: San Diego County, CA
Removals: 16,867

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SECURE COMMUNITIES removed 406,441 before it ended. REMOVALS BY COUNTY map

At least this columnist said something, and asked a real question?

What possesses these lawmakers to want to allow dangerous people to remain in the midst of their own people - the people they are supposed to serve?

Truly, I don't know what motivates them. Some of them it might be money, some it might be a sense of power, some just want their names in the paper, some might just not like Pres. Trump.

I don't know, but it defies logic - really it does.