Sunday, December 08, 2024
Sanctuary cities need to listen to their citizens
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— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) December 8, 2024
We’ve come a long way from the days when Governor Abbott of Texas was called a racist for signing an anti-sanctuary city bill in 2017. Yes, it’s very different now that Mayor Adams of New York City is talking about working with the Trump administration on solving the problem. Those buses to New York, etc. were pretty effective in nationalizing the issue.
In a few weeks, we may see a confrontation between the administration and Democrats over sanctuary cities. My guess is that the political environment has changed dramatically. It won’t be easy defending the chaos and lawlessness we are watching in many of these cities.
Professor Turley has a little advice for Democrats:
Under federal immigration law, it is a felony when anyone in “knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, 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.”
Yes, I think that’s why they call them “illegal aliens”: because they are here illegally. It does not matter whether you call them undocumented or whatever; it is a problem for a local public official to shield them.
Many of these Democrats may run into trouble defending the chaos to their local residents. Sanctuary cities are no longer romantic concepts to defend on Sunday-morning shows or trips to MSNBC. Instead, these cities are now crime-ridden and running deficits because they can’t afford this anymore.
So my good guess is that the issue will go away on its own, especially when Democrats find out that the people cheering for ICE are their constituents.
As for me, a naturalized citizen who came here legally with my parents in the 1960s, I understand those who want to come to the U.S. At the same time, it must be done correctly so that the rule of law prevails.
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December 8, 1941: The last time a president went to Congress for a declaration of war
What do they have in common? No formal declaration of war!
To be fair, President Bush-41 & President Bush-43 did go to Congress for a resolution authorizing military force. (I'm sure all of you remember all of those Democrats reminding us that Saddam had WMDs and had to be removed)
I guess that a resolution is better than nothing, although The Tonkin Gulf Resolution was really a stretch. I don't think that a single member of Congress thought that President Johnson would use that resolution to escalate the war and send 500,000 troops to Vietnam.
President Truman sent troops to Korea under a UN Security Council resolution.
Not surprisingly, Korea and Vietnam became very unpopular wars because Congress was never really engaged.
Incredibly, most Americans were not around the last time that a president went to Congress and got a war declaration:
The Founding Fathers understood that an executive with unlimited war powers would likely involve the country in wars. Beyond that, the executive is always stronger when he has the Congress behind him, especially when things go wrong as they always do when the shooting starts."On this day in 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt asks Congress to declare war on Japan in perhaps the most memorable speech of his career. The speech, in which he called Japan's act a "deliberate deception," received thunderous applause from Congress and, soon after, the United States officially entered the Second World War.
The day before, Japanese pilots had bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, decimating the majority of U.S. warships in the Pacific Fleet along with most of the Air Corps and Navy aircraft stationed on the island of Oahu. The bombing raids killed 2,403 people, including 68 civilians, and wounded almost 1,200."
Let's get back to the Constitution and demand that presidents go to Congress.
We remember John Lennon (1940-80)
Yes, it was a shocking act, as Howard Cosell said on TV, when he broke the story during the football game.