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The Department of Justice Is Suing These Sanctuary Cities and States – And the Excuses They’re Providing Don’t Make Sense
Immigrant criminals are creating far worse harm than anyone could ever realize, harming American citizens to the point of assault – or even murder
By Michael Letts, July 24, 2026 8:00 am
These days, social media is having a field day trying to portray President Donald Trump and ICE agents as villains, where as illegal immigrants should be protected. But the truth of the matter is that these immigrant criminals are creating far worse harm than anyone could ever realize, harming American citizens to the point of assault – or even murder.
With that, some cities and states continue to have sanctuary rules in place, hoping that they will be enough to keep Trump’s “gestapo” (the word passed around by so many Democratic leaders) from arresting “the wrong people.” But the Department of Justice isn’t resting easy letting them squeak by.
Per this report from Dailyfly, the Department of Justice has proceeded to file 27 total lawsuits across 20 cities, counties and states over the past three months, ones that utilize sanctuary rules to impede what President Trump’s efforts to clean out these criminals. States include Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and the city of Philadelphia, believing their rules are unconstitutional in stopping ICE agents – and for that matter, law enforcement officers – from doing their job.
The Supremacy Clause, located in Article VI, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution, makes it absolutely clear – the federal laws are supposed to be the “supreme law of the Land.” So why do these leaders continue to defy this, knowing that the federal law will eventually overcome?
Of course, you’ll see them make excuses, insisting that their way isn’t nearly as problematic as Trump’s. Take, for instance, National Immigration Law Center senior staff attorney Cassandra Charles, who gave a rather limp excuse as to why these sanctuary rules exist.
“These sanctuary policies are most times created to help make communities safer. They promote a level of trust and cooperation between communities and public institutions of all kinds,” she noted.
Two things here.
First off, “most times.” That sounds like an underconfident add-on, as if Charles is aware that there are some leaders who make rules simply because they sound good to them. And with that, they shun the efforts of law enforcement officers who are simply trying to uphold the law (as they are sworn to do) to make themselves look good to their adoring public.
Now the second thing. Promoting a level of trust and cooperation.
I need to once again repeat that a number of these illegal immigrants that have seeped their way into these communities are criminals. That’s not to say they all are, but a good portion have certainly pulled off nefarious actions. Gangs don’t pop out of the woodwork to promote goodwill.
So, with an increase in criminal activity and local leaders failing to provide the protection American citizens need within their towns, on what level does this create a “level of trust and cooperation”? It actually goes the opposite way, making people question their leaders as they allow crime to continue running rampant. Just ask anyone living in Seattle right now, where Mayor Katie Wilson has practically driven the city into the ground with her awful policies.
And of course, Charles had to get a jab in directly at Trump, citing that the administration is “misinterpreting” the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. Um, how, exactly? Trump has been pushing for ICE enforcement to track down these dangerous criminals, in which it’s done so by the thousands. They’re doing exactly what they set out to do with this mission. And you think because a few people were killed – by interfering in ICE operations, by the way – there’s “misinterpretation”?
Obviously there’s some work to be done with these lawsuits, especially if Biden-appointed judges feel the need to knock them out of court before they’re given consideration (as we saw in New Jersey last year). But this is a step in the right direction, with these leaders rightfully being called out for trying to issue protections of illegal immigrant criminals, rather than the American citizens they were voted in to protect.
Change is needed, and, hopefully, this is the first step in making that happen.
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“These sanctuary policies are most times created to help make communities safer.”
You want to make these communities safer? Deport ALL of the illegal aliens. ALL OF THEM. Problem solved. Many problems solved.
The Omertà Code (code of silence) runs very, very deep among many in these “migrant” communities already. Playing nice guy with them does not build trust in order help law enforcement officers. It is too ingrained in their “culture” to ever cooperate with the police to fight crime. It would take a many more generations to wipe that cultural conditioning out. If ever.
Even worse is the malicious peer pressure now exercised in the school yards. Getting identified as “acting white”, if you do want to succeed in school, if you do want a better life in America, is the most corrosive cultural attack of all. Most prior US immigration came from shared value system countries – Northern European primarily had the easiest time. Though southern Italians did get the worst of it, even though a relatively common European heritage was shared.
But this recent Biden invasion from across the wider globe shares almost no common culture for US assimilation. Just the opposite, We were not prepared for this new value system they are now imposing on us. Mainly uncovering how much systematic grift and fraud is committed with a straight face. They think we are stupid to put so much money on the table. But they are right there to scoop it up. And claim it rightfully as their own , since no one stopped them.
What we later call criminal behavior; they call successful long honed survival techniques. .
@Jaye, don’t mistake this reply for defending the invasion nor as a slap at you. You are evidently ufamiliar with the culture. Mexican history is a 500 year, blood soaked tradgedy where the past never goes away and is often the present with different faces. Because of this, Mexicans tend to trust only family and close friends. There is not so much a code of omerta as the notion, derived from endemic corruption, that if you stay away from the police you’ll be ok. Like having mugger money, you have to have shakedown money for thr police, otherwise you might go to jail until someone bribes them to let you out. Often hiring an attorney is equated with bribing the judge because that’s how it works in Mexico. There is such a thing as “acting white,” pocho – americanized, but’s that’s sorta different from your understanding, which was originally put into the schools by activist faculty decades ago, it devolved from original activist urging to get an education to being an agrieved, entitled slacker. As for a lot of them gaming the system, American citizens opened that door for them and shooed them through it, and a large number of illegals will figure why not. Actually culturally Mexican citizens and pocho activists use each other to their own ends, otherwise they might not like each other all that much. Having said all that, among them you can find the nicest, upright saints and the most unmitigated assholes to ever walk the earth. However, no one can screw a Mexican over like another Mexican.
A mistake a lot of white americans make is to confuse race with nationality and culture. Take the racist chicano organization “mexica movement” that spew all that aztlan crap along with extreme racist invective and screwy ethnic nationalism, I doubt any mexican (from mexico) would ever consider them to be mexican but rather more like pocho clowns and idiots. A lot of white americans would confuse them as being mexican, they’re not.
The american born serving jail time might refer to themselves as mexican (hence “mexican mafia”), but real mexicans (from mexico) are called “paisas” and the two groups don’t get along well.
The word “mexican” has been so misused for so long while meaning nothing and everything at the same time it can lead to all sorts of misunderstandings in conversation.
Somehow all latin americans become mexicans, as if puerto ricans originated tacos and tamales.
And, never asume an apache to be mexican as that would be highly insulting – and if you know true border history you’ll understand why.
Cesar Chavez, until recently a darling of whatever the early 70s chicano movement has morphed into now, was roundly disliked and slandered in mexico in his time, because he called the border patrol on the mexicans who broke his strikes for better working conditions. So, he couldn’t be mexican and was said to be the product of a guatemalan father and a navajo mother.
Actually his grandfather escaped debt slavery from a mexican hacienda and came to the united states.
The thing to understand about what are real slurs against Chavez is that while Mexico is a mestizo majority nation, Guatemalans are to mexico kind of like what mexicans are to the United States, and mexican indians tend to be regarded like american blacks were in the south circa 1900 by many mexican mestizos.
“Pinche indio!” is like calling someone the “n” word.