It’s really no big surprise that California, which Gov. Jerry Brown officially made a sanctuary state by signing the bill into law last fall, is reportedly looking into its legal options to stop the Trump administration from using force at the border.
California assessing legal action against use of force on Mexico border https://t.co/N0WyVKPeGq pic.twitter.com/pmxDWNpSVM
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) November 28, 2018
Attorney General Xavier Becerra certainly does seem to enjoy threatening legal action wherever illegal immigration is concerned; in February, he put President Trump on notice that the state would take legal action to keep a citizenship question off the 2020 census.
The California Department of Justice is putting President Trump on notice: if a citizenship question is added to the 2020 U.S. Census Bureau questionnaire, we are prepared to take any and all necessary legal action to protect a full and accurate Census.
— Xavier Becerra (@AGBecerra) February 12, 2018
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is assessing whether the state can take legal action over the Trump administration’s use of force against a caravan of migrants or a decision and future threats to shut the border with Mexico, he said in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday.
“We have been approached by folks who have expressed complaints,” Becerra, who is the son of Mexican immigrants, said. “We are monitoring what’s occurring.”
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… Becerra suggested that if a state resident was being affected, including by shutting of the border, the state could have cause to intervene.
“I can’t act unless the rules are on our side,” Becerra, who is the son of Mexican immigrants, said.
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Did you happen to catch that Reuters not once but twice in the same tiny article made it clear that Becerra is the son of Mexican immigrants? And that’s a doubly-important detail why?
You mean the dangerous rocks being hurled at our border patrol agents, or the non-lethal tear gas used to push back the rock throwers?
— Uranium Covfefe (@zoochum) November 28, 2018
He means, of course, the gassing of children with “chemical weapons,” according to Hawaiian Sen. Brian Schatz. Sorry, make that the “unprecedented” use of tear gas, if you ignore the years when the Obama administration used tear gas monthly at the exact same border crossing.
Hmmm did CA care when it happened while Obama was in office? I don't recall so.
— pistrix (@pistrix) November 28, 2018
Nope. That would have been when Kamala Harris was attorney general, and we didn’t hear anything about suing the Obama administration during her tenure.
Force was used over 100 times when obama was President but zero outrage and zero calls for limiting force then. So shove it you hypocrites
— Steven (@MaVASteve) November 28, 2018
THIS is where we need the wall built – between California and the rest of the USA
— patkatz (@patty529) November 28, 2018
Calexit already will you.
— Gina (@Ginahalo52) November 28, 2018
Hey, did you know that Becerra is the son of Mexican immigrants?
Related:
THERE it is! Guess how often tear gas was used at the border during Obama’s presidency (Hint: RIP Dem/media narrative) https://t.co/aMFVjZKGIT
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) November 27, 2018
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