San Diego Country supervisors apparently don’t care what the voters think. Despite Donald Trump—who promised that the border crisis and the wave of illegal immigrants invited in by the Biden-Harris regime would be one of his top priorities—winning the presidency and carrying both the electoral and popular vote, the supes voted Tuesday to refuse to work with federal authorities and to protect those here in violation of our laws.
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To heck with safety, they seemed to be saying, and to heck with the voters:
San Diego County has voted to further block county cooperation with federal immigration authorities ahead of an expected deportation push by the incoming Trump administration next year – a move quickly slammed by a top local Republican.
The resolution goes further than California’s existing ‘sanctuary’ law, which generally limits law enforcement’s cooperation with ICE. The vote was approved in a 3-1 vote by San Diego County’s board of supervisors.
BREAKING: The San Diego County Board of Supervisors just voted 3-1 to turn the county into a “super” sanctuary county by shielding illegals from deportation and preventing police from notifying ICE about dangerous illegals in custody.pic.twitter.com/ApINL5CtRy
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 11, 2024
They openly vowed to stick a finger in ICE’s eye:
The resolution says that the county will not provide assistance or cooperation to ICE “including by giving ICE agents access to individuals or allowing them to use County facilities for investigative interviews or other purposes, expending County time or resources responding to ICE inquiries or communicating with ICE regarding individuals’ incarceration status or release dates, or otherwise participating in any civil immigration enforcement activities.”
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But not everyone is on board with this insanity. SD County Sheriff Kelly Martinez says her department is not bound by the new measure, and she will not comply:
Read @SDSheriff statement on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors’ vote on immigration enforcement. You can also read the full statement here: https://t.co/PSGANIABaf. pic.twitter.com/5y7I5rMeud
— San Diego Sheriff (@SDSheriff) December 11, 2024
Martinez thinks current law was working fine and there’s no need for this change:
Sheriff Kelly Martinez said the board does not set policy for the sheriff, who, like the supervisors, is an elected official. She said she would not honor the new policy.
“Current state law strikes the right balance between limiting local law enforcement’s cooperation with immigration authorities, ensuring public safety and building community trust,” said Martinez, whose office is non-partisan but has identified as a Democrat.
Ice has limited resources to carry out the mass deportations that Trump wants, forcing it to rely heavily on local sheriffs to notify the agency of people in their custody and hold them temporarily, if asked, to allow federal officials time to arrest them on immigration charges.
Trump’s pick for border czar, Tom Homan, has vowed he will take a tough stance against officials who don’t cooperate with the federal government, and he has San Diego squarely in his sites:
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San Diego county, with 3.3 million residents and its location on the US border with Mexico, is emerging as a key area where those tensions will play out. Trump’s “border czar”, Tom Homan, has singled out the county as a place where the incoming administration’s plans are complicated by “sanctuary” laws, a loose term for state and local governments that restrict cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
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Things could get interesting in San Diego once Trump officially takes office. Good for the sheriff for standing up to the supervisors, who are defiantly acting against the good of their own people.
