Far-left Democratic Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles confessed on MSNBC that she is trespassing the law that forbids harboring illegal aliens and obstructing the enforcement of U.S. immigration law.
Far-left Democratic Representative Delia Ramirez of Illinois recently called Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) a “terrorist organization,” while a U.S. Catholic bishop likened agents who arrest and deport illegals to Nazis and police who enforced the Fugitive Slave Act.
Beyond that, the campaign of vilification of ICE agents continues at a time when violence against them has increased 1,000 percent.
Bass’ latest is hardly a surprise. The former congresswoman has always been something of a crackpot. She once toiled for a Cuban intelligence front, and was recently linked to Red Chinese intelligence.
But beyond those deeply suspicious ties, she has taken up the cause of the illegal aliens who have infested her city. She lied about the cause of the illegal-alien riots weeks ago, attributing them to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its arrest of violent illegal-alien criminals.
The White House, she falsely claimed, “provoked” the violence, which required Trump to deploy Marines to the city.
But now the leftist has raised her bet. She told MSNBC’s low-rated hostess Rachel Maddow that she’s openly harboring illegals and obstructing justice, both federal felonies.
Maddow asked what the city could do to obstruct federal law. Bass readily confessed that “we” have an “alert” system.
“When they were doing the random snatching or kidnappings of people off of our streets, when people gathered, they backed away on many occasions,” Bass told the TV talker:
And so in Los Angeles, we have a rapid-response network where everybody is alerted. If you see masked men getting out of unmarked cars, let everybody in the area know.
How Bass would respond if an illegal alien murdered an ICE agent after notification by her “rapid-response network” is unclear. But the question is when federal authorities will arrest Bass. Border czar Tom Homan has promised on numerous occasions to arrest state and local officials who interfere with ICE.
Harboring illegals, one crime to which Bass confessed, is forbidden by 8 U.S. Code 1324, bringing in and harboring certain aliens. It applies to “anyone” who “conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation.”
Bass might also have confessed to obstruction.
To her credit, she did not, as did the vice mayor of Cudahy, Calif., Cynthia Gonzalez, call for Hispanic gangs to attack ICE agents.
For her part, Delia Ramirez apparently hopes to incite the murder of ICE and other federal agents.
Anchor baby of Guatemalan illegals and married to an illegal alien, Ramirez — who recently declared her allegiance to Guatemala — thinks enforcing the law makes an agent a “terrorist.”
In that, she echoed the crackpot deputy mayor of Ventura, Calif., Doug Halter.
“Well, Tom Homan, let me tell you, all over the country, we will continue to stand up for our rights, and we will continue to call out the terrorist organization that is ICE,” Ramirez said at the recent leftist Netroots Nation confab. The listening herd mooed approval.
Not to be outdone, the Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston in West Virginia, Mark E. Brennan, compared federal agents to police who enforced the Fugitive Slave Act.
“We the people should also remember our history,” the bishop wrote:
The Fugitive Slave Act, passed by Congress as part of the Compromise of 1850 — an attempt to calm the tensions between slave states and free states — required not only local police but ordinary citizens to assist federal marshals in returning escaped slaves to their Southern masters or face heavy fines and jail time. Many Northern citizens refused to cooperate with a law they saw as manifestly unjust. It is Catholic teaching that an unjust law does not bind in conscience.
But that wasn’t enough for the bishop. He also suggested that ICE agents are comparable to Nazi war criminals, a frequent allusion from leftists, notably those who should know better.
He continued:
I encourage even those whose official duty is to enforce the current Administration’s immigration policies to consider whether a specific action is morally justified.
I recognize that they have sworn to uphold the law. Yet the manner in which a law is enforced matters. Those acting on the government’s behalf cannot escape personal responsibility for an unjust action with the excuse that it was ordered by their superiors. That defense was not allowed during the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals at the end of World War II. The judges held that a soldier, guard or official, who authorized or engaged in gross violations of human rights, was personally responsible for his acts.
The bishop’s opinions on immigration, a prudential matter on which faithful Catholics can disagree, are not Catholic teaching. They do not, as the bishop said, bind in “conscience.” Catholic federal agents can safely ignore them.
The bishop and Guatemala’s representative in Congress mightn’t know it, or mightn’t care, but attacks on ICE agents, the Department of Homeland Security reported last week, have increased 1,000 percent.
H/T: Breitbart