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| DATE | 2017-01-27 |
| FROM | Rick Moen
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] Ruben's "really" important news headlines III
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Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com):
[snip long link salad]
> Sactuary cities punished
> https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-01-26/trump-threat-to-deny-funds-draws-defiance-from-sanctuary-cities
'Sanctuary'. Sheesh, Ruben, _use a spelling checker_, already.
I was bemused at this story: Orange Julius Caesar trying to pick a
fight with cities with 'sanctuary' ordinances by ordering that
unspecified Federal funds be withheld from them.
Unlike the Idiot-in-Chief, I actually took about 15 seconds to look into
what such an ordinance amounts to.
The [San Francisco Sheriff’s Department] has not responded to the 41
requests by ICE to be notified when the Sheriff’s Department releases
undocumented immigrants, or to detain them for pickup, since July
2016, the San Francisco Examiner previously reported.
http://www.sfexaminer.com/trumps-order-strip-funding-sanctuary-cities-puts-sf-test/
Oh, noes! How disloyal! How disobedient! How... what's that
expression? Constitutional.
Um, gee, fellahs, let me just quote the Tenth Amendment to the US
Constitution, a provision sacred to conservatives everywhere:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the people.
Let me translate that into 21st Century vernacular, for those still a
bit unclear on what the Tenth Amendment means: It means that you, I,
the City and County of San Francisco, Los Angeles, NYC, Minneapolis, the
state of Oregon, Houston, New Orleans, New Haven,... and actually the
entire country at large do not work for Donald Fscking Trump.
When ICE calls San Francisco County Sheriff Vicki Hennessy and demands
that her department do the Feds' work, she is perfectly free to say
'Go away, flatfoot. We've got real work to do, here.' And that happens
to be the City and County's policy, because they would rather that the
Sheriff's Department do, y'know, the Sheriff's Department's job.
Surprised that we don't have to do work for some Fed who finds your
telephone number? Well, hey, welcome to a country where President
Manbaby isn't a dicator, no matter what he thinks when he's able to tear
himself away from Twitter and obsessively watching cable television.
I know the Orangutan doesn't actually read _anything_ (or write, either,
though he did pose at a borrowed secretary's desk clutching a _Sharpie_
and legal pad, lying and claiming to have written his extremely peculiar
Bannon-authored inaugural address there), but I'm sure he has a few pet
lawyers who've read the Constitution and can explain it to him in small
words. But apparently we all need to waste our time in court getting
this current stupidity thrown out, because Numbnuts thinks he got
anointed dictator, cannot be bothered to understand the Constitution,
and probably refused to listen to staffers trying to explain it to him.
This is only day five of this shitshow. We'll be looking back on this
as the good old days, and there's _lots_ of room for this to get worse.
Meanwhile, here's something that will explain why 'the wall' is an
idiotic idea:
Adam Ruins the Wall (College Humor)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_P9PR5ckFk
Note in particular the point by Princeton's Prof. Douglas Massey on
'recirculation' -- the reasons why tougher border enforcement leads to
_more_ illegals staying in the US.
Meanwhile, I notice the con artist's current idea about how to make
'Mexico pay for the wall' is a blanket 20% import duty -- which of
course amounts to 'I'll make Americans pay for the wall and pretend that
it was the Mexicans'. And gee, let's tank international commerce and
start trade wars! What could possibly go wrong?
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