The list of “sanctuary city” of national security security is the point


The “Sanctuary Jurisdiction List of the National Security Department has more holes than the plot for the last” impossible mission “film.

Everything you need to know about your accuracy is how I went to Orange County.

The only city of OC in the list is Huntington Beach, you know, the 'Burbe with a totally republican council that is demanding California for being a sanctuary, declared a community of “non -sanctioning” in January and plans to place a plaque outside the main library of the city with an acrostic message “Maga”.

Lack of the list? Santa Ana, synonymous with undocumented immigrants, which was declared in a sanctuary city in 2016 and has a deportation defense fund for residents.

More ridiculous mistakes: Livingston, the first city in the Central Valley to declare a sanctuary for immigrants in 2017, is not on the list. However, Santee in San Diego County, so notorious for his racism that people still call him “Klantee.”

There is even representation. Have you heard of that? Me neither. It turns out that it is not a city, but the name of the Post Office for two places not known exactly as sanctuaries: Folsom State Prison and California State Prison, Sacramento.

A few hours after its inauguration, Donald Trump signed an executive order entitled “Protection of the American people against the invasion” that, among other things, declared that the sanctuary jurisdictions should no longer receive federal funds.

But the May 29 list that exposes the jurisdictions that are supposedly subject to penalty was so defective that it was taken from the national security website in a matter of days. It is not yet again. The effort seemed improvised by someone who wrote “sanctuary” and the name of a city on Google and swallowed whatever the AI ​​without even bothering to verify with Wikipedia.

Trump's opponents are already representing this fiasco as emblematic of an administration that loves to shoot in the foot, then put the bloody foot in his mouth. But it is even worse than that.

The list shows how blinded Trump administration is illegal immigration. There is no too big or too small mistake for Trump to forgive, whenever he is in the name of deportation and border walls. The president's obsession with tie all the real and imagined evils of this country to the newcomers reminds me of Cato The Elder, the politician of the Roman Republic, famous for allegedly saying that “Carthage must be destroyed” at the end of all his speeches, regardless of the issue.

That is why the rejection of politicians against the Great, beautiful Boo-Boo of National Security, has been rapid and hilarious.

The mayor of Huntington Beach, Pat Burns, listens to speakers about the city's plan to make Huntington Beach “a non -sanction city for illegal immigration” during a city council meeting in January in January

(James Carbone)

The mayor of Huntington Beach, Pat Burns, appeared in Kcal News to declare that the inclusion of Surf City was “pure negligence” while holding a small white bust of Donald Trump in the same way that a young child clings to his blankey.

The mayor of Vista, John Franklin, meanwhile, was in the town hall that voted in 2018 to support the failed demand of the Trump administration against the state law of California. He told ABC 10News San Diego that he thought that Vista made the list because “another city in the county that has a name similar to ours … may have done it, and I have not yet confirmed it, adopted a sanctuary policy.”

Friend, say the name of the city: Chula Vista, a colder, very Latin city closer to the border between the United States and Mexico than seen. It is also on the list and is not a sanctuary city either.

At the other end of the political spectrum, the representative Lou Correa (D-Santa Ana) told The Voice of OC that he recently advised Santa Ana officials to “keep their heads down” and will not go to a big problem about his state of the sanctuary city, as if he hid under a desk, like a caper of “Scooby Doo”, he will somehow save the city of the Haphazard Hammer.

Immigration, more than any other part of Trump's agenda, exemplifies the cliché of the Silicon Valley to move quickly and break things. His administration has deported people by mistake and has given the middle finger to the judges who order them brought. Trump officials now send immigrants to countries to which they have no links and shrug. Immigration agents are trying to stop people in places that are considered outside the limits, such as schools and places of worship.

And yet, this is not yet enough for Trump.

Deportation rates are increasing, but not yet at the levels observed in some years of the administrations of Biden and Obama, and not even close to Operation Wetback, the Eisenhower era program that deported more than one million Mexican citizens. Trump's Dream Dream team, the head of National Security Kristi Noem, the Tom Homan border tsar and the White House Cabinet Chiefer, Stephen Miller, has rebuked ICE officials for not doing more to comply with Trump's wishes.

The list of the sanctuary embodies all this. Who cares if the remains involve human lives or the Constitution? The carelessness is the point. Cruelty is the point.

National security did not respond to my request to explain the defects in its list of sanctuary jurisdiction and why it was eliminated. Instead, a spokesman sent an email to a statement saying: “The list is constantly reviewing and can be changed at any time and will be updated regularly.” The decision to include a place, the statement said, “is based on the evaluation of numerous factors.”

Except the truth, it seems.

I laugh at the absurd mistakes while we can. Really, like penda Can you think that Huntington Beach is friendly with undocumented immigrants, but Santa Ana is not? We reread while we can, because things will get worse before improving.

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