A Tale of Three Illegal Immigration Stories – Top 3 Takeaways – November 21st, 2024

How wrong and for how long? There are many reasons I’m grateful to live in the free state of Florida. The weather, the water, nature and almost all of its creatures (we could do without the non-native ones). I love not having a state income tax, the culture and our state’s diversity. I’m all about Florida’s universal school choice program and for that matter I’m a fan of most of our state’s policies (the state’s Constitution Revision Commission isn’t one of them). And speaking of policies I love are many of Florida’s preemption policies. While that may not make me popular with some local officials, Florida’s preemption policies protect our communities from making the kind of decisions that have ruined many of our country’s once great communities. There’s more than just one reason why cities like Chicago, New York and San Francisco have gone from being among the greatest in the world, to some of scariest in the world, but if you boiled it down to one common policy denominator it would be their declaration as sanctuary cities. Show me a “sanctuary city”, and I’ll show you an unsafe city. And sadly, as you look across the country, you’ll find many of them. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, there are currently 13 sanctuary states and separately 225 local governments, a mix of cities and counties that have sanctuary policies in place. Not one of them is in Florida. But that wasn’t always the case. According to CIS a sanctuary jurisdiction is: These cities, counties, and states have laws, ordinances, regulations, resolutions, policies, or other practices that obstruct immigration enforcement and shield criminals from ICE — either by refusing to or prohibiting agencies from complying with ICE detainers, imposing unreasonable conditions on detainer acceptance, denying ICE access to interview incarcerated aliens, or otherwise impeding communication or information exchanges between their personnel and federal immigration officers (Although by that definition the Biden administration has effectively turned our country into a sanctuary destination which does explain the huge increases in crime we’ve seen.). In 2019, in Florida, only 29 of Florida’s 67 counties had full compliance with ICE detainer requests and various cities across the state chose to look the other way on immigration status, a la West Palm Beach via their “welcoming city” declaration which was crafted to resemble Seattle’s policy. That’s what gained the attention of Governor DeSantis and brought about the push for a preemption policy to ban sanctuary governments within this state. It was passed in 2019 by the Florida legislature. As we’ve seen the rise of lawlessness and crime in sanctuary cities and states, we’ve largely been spared that fate because of smart policies by the state. Just imagine if former West Palm Beach Mayor Jeri Muoio, and company, had been allowed to turn the community into Seattle-east. This came to mind yesterday for three reasons that hit the news.
First, you had the verdict in the Laken Riley case. The illegal immigrant, Jose Ibarra, was found guilty on all charges. The case didn’t just capture national attention. It’s the quintessential example of everything that’s wrong with the Biden administration and sanctuary jurisdictions. A Venezuelan gang member, Jose Ibarra, was granted access to this country by the Biden administration. He was transported to New York at taxpayer expense. He was put up in New York’s Roosevelt Hotel once he got there at taxpayer expense. He was then flown to Athens, Georgia – a sanctuary city - at taxpayer expense so he could brutally rape and murder Laken Riley. And the irony even as he was sentenced to life in prison without parole yesterday, was that he’ll live out the rest of his life at taxpayer expense. How truly sick and demented do you have to be to put policies in place like sanctuary policies? But that takes me to the second related story of the past couple of days. If anything, one might look at all that’s gone wrong with sanctuary polices in place and think that the only related votes local governments would be taking would be to undo them. But that’s not the case. While Ibarra was learning his fate, the Los Angeles City Council was busy putting its new sanctuary city policies in place following its unanimous – 13-0 vote. California was already a “Sanctuary state” but for good measure LA is making sure they advertise that they’re to specifically be the latest destination for those with no lawful right to be in this country. And as for the third related story of the day, there was this. The radical left has created the greatest illegal immigration crisis in American history. One that’s led to non-citizens becoming responsible for 24% of all drug trafficking, 25% of all property crimes, 28% of all fraud. And after we’ve had a 182% increase in sexual offenses against children/women by noncitizens since Joe Biden became president, and a 967% increase in homicides/manslaughter...and climbing we’ve now learned this.
Judges have ordered the removal of 1.4 million illegal immigrants from the United States that haven’t been removed because the Biden administration hasn’t removed them. The Biden administration isn’t only breaking the law by allowing over 11 million illegal immigrants in here. They’re breaking the law by refusing to remove the illegal immigrants the courts have ordered them to remove. And yet the left has the audacity to be critical of President-elect Trump’s mass deportation plan? At this point Trump’s mass deportation plan could simply be defined as complying with court orders. What this country has experienced is absolute lawlessness. Its consequences are many. But the better news is twofold. Help is on the way, and we live in the free state of Florida where foolish local politicians can’t destroy our communities like the loons in places like LA continue to do.

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