Posted by tartoran 1 day ago
https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/04/immigration-mask-ban-...
> An 1890 Supreme Court case provides that a state cannot prosecute federal law enforcement officers acting in the course of their duties.
> The law also ran headlong into the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, which holds that states may not regulate the operations of the federal government.
I also don’t get the obsession of democrat politicians with protecting illegal immigrants. I don’t support ICE’s violation of constitutional rights or brutality. But blue states and cities are also just being obstructionist and sheltering criminals. It’s not unreasonable to deport illegal immigrants and this is going to hurt the chance of a midterm blue wave, not help it.
Latino voters swung Republican in 2024, but belatedly seem to have figured out that he actually meant what he said. Polling shows that opposing ICE is popular among Latinos, and is likely to boost Democratic chances this fall.
There are also plenty of things working against them, including gerrymandering which is apparently illegal only in blue states. So it's difficult to predict at the moment.
Much like the shortsighted reliance on executive orders as a substitute for legislation, critiques of sanctuary cities often boil down to the assumption that the federal government should be able to override local autonomy whenever politically convenient. But the entire constitutional structure exists to place limits on government power, not remove them whenever those limits become inconvenient. "Its not unreasonable to deport illegal immigrants" is a remedial, one dimensional view.
Other countries deal with such things by immediately granting an in processing status.
The US appears to have a cartoonish approach to good / evil that's just comical from a distance.