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    What George Wallace and Jerry Brown Have in Common

    Who knows where George Wallace went after he left this life, but wherever he is, he must be smiling.

    He and the other segregationist governors of the Old South didn’t want the federal government telling them how to live their lives. On June 11, 1963 Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama to bar two black students from entering.

    The other racist governors didn’t think much of the civil rights laws either, so they sent in the police to stop black people from eating at lunch counters; they prohibited African Americans from staying at “white” hotels; they wouldn’t allow them to sit in the front of the bus or drink from a “whites only” water fountain; and most of all, they wouldn’t let black people vote, the surest way to keep them in their place.

    Some 50 years later it’s not the governor of a regressive, intolerant state, but the governor of the progressive state of California, along with the sophisticated liberals in the state legislature, who think they can pick and choose which federal laws are worthy of compliance – and which, on grounds of morality, deserve to be ignored.

    So they’ve pretty much declared California a sanctuary state. As for federal immigration laws, the enlightened politicians in Sacramento don’t think any more of them than George Wallace thought of federal civil rights laws.

    Last year, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 54, which prohibits state and local law enforcement officials from informing federal officers when an illegal immigrant who has committed a crime is being released from custody.

    Ah, but this is not in the same moral universe, progressives will tell you, as what Governor Wallace and the others did. Wallace shunned federal law to enforce an evil way of life. Jerry Brown and the Democratic legislature want to help people – not hurt them. They want immigrants who are here illegally to feel free to work with the police if they know something about a crime. If they’re afraid of being arrested, or even deported, they’ll stay in the shadows and remain silent.

    There’s some truth to that. But what about the times when an illegal immigrant is released from custody and federal agents are not informed – and he goes out and shoots and kills a young woman on a pier in San Francisco?

    And what about that political stunt in Oakland, California in February when Mayor Libby Schaaf warned illegal aliens of a secret raid by immigration agents? That reckless decision put her own citizens in danger by allowing illegal immigrants, many of whom had committed crimes, to avoid arrest...

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    Exactly....this is a states rights vs federal government issue which is also why the governor cannot just be arrested....this has to go through the justice system channels....it progressed this far because the former administration refused to, and even encouraged, the states to defy Federal guidelines....

    Good to see some cities are taking action to choose Federal over state on this issue...

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    I had forgotten civil war history and revisited it...the Supreme Court ruled FOR states on the issue of slavery...Democrats in Congress then moved to get legislation to gain legal protections but the Democrat party split...some supporting slavery and others seeking abolishment....THAT was when the civil war started...

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