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President Trump on Thursday said hes thinking about pulling Immigration and Customs Enforcement out of California in retaliation for the states lack of support on his position on sanctuary cities and for the state being no help in targeting the MS-13 gang. I mean, frankly, if I wanted to pull our people out of California, you would have a crime mess like youve never seen in California, he said. They're doing a lousy management job, they have the highest taxes in the nation and they don't know what's happening out there. He also said that if he took ICE forces out of California, in two months they'd be begging for us to come back, they would be begging. And you know what, Im thinking about doing it."
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-threatens-to-pull-ice-from-california-to-teach-state-a-lesson
onecaliberal
(32,774 posts)We need new adjectives to explain the level of stupid.
Anon-C
(3,430 posts)lame54
(35,259 posts)Wonder if any of his handlers have tried to control him that way?
C_U_L8R
(44,983 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)lapfog_1
(29,189 posts)and you can forget our contributions in the form of federal tax dollars too.
take ICE and the FBI and the military out. Move the Pacific fleet from San Diego to... Washington? Hawaii?
Asshat.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)msdogi
(430 posts)As a life long Californian, I can say our immigrant brothers and sisters are welcome, valued and respected. So get your faux cops out of our state, and while you're at it, get yourself out of our house.
sinkingfeeling
(51,436 posts)spanone
(135,781 posts)such an ass.
MrsCoffee
(5,801 posts)They hate everything liberal and to them, California is the most liberal state in the country.
procon
(15,805 posts)state for "punishment" over all the others? He's reduced to thuggery and extortion because California is blocking his white supremacist policies.
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)Boxerfan
(2,533 posts)Oh of course-this guy has never read anything that doesn't have staples in the stomach. So he probably doesn't know what a favor that would be.
bet the agents will be happy. Not. But fuckem with a red hot poker. You know they'd do it to you!.
hunter
(38,301 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,563 posts)And return to us (California) all the taxes we sent the Federal government to support this Gestapo agency.
underpants
(182,585 posts)where the good Lord splitya
eleny
(46,166 posts)Well, the way the country is starting to lean!
struggle4progress
(118,214 posts)haele
(12,635 posts)Other than the border checkpoints, where would ICE's jurisdiction affect other local and federal policing of crime? ICE doesn't go after undocumented criminals any more, they let the police or Marshalls grab the criminals and take them once they're in custody, or go after the "soft targets" - undocumented people going to church, picking up their kids at school, or checking in with an immigration advocate or case worker.
If anything, crime would drop as those undocumented victims will come out of the shadows and report the serial criminals that target them and documented victims.
Haele
underpants
(182,585 posts)He doesn't even know how tariffs work either.
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)Many of my fellow Californians will sleep better at night. Oh, about MS13, not to worry, we'll continue address that nothing burger. Asshole.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)You've already left us to fend for ourselves when you refused to provide federal aid for the fire disasters. Guess, what? We did just fine! So feel free to take your jack booted thugs with you.
BoneyardDem
(1,202 posts)you WILL obey, you WILL conform, you WILL do as I say......
snort
(2,334 posts)Thanks, Fuckface!
Leith
(7,807 posts)If hair furor ever got a clue as to how ridiculous he sounds, he would burst into tears.
Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)And like all of his other promises, he won't keep it.
kimbutgar
(21,040 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...to say that he'll enforce his own laws in 49 states, but not the fiftieth, out of spite...whatever you think of ICE, this seems clearly unconstitutional...
Initech
(100,029 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)we send to flyover country. All those hillbillies and no money for food stamps.
flotsam
(3,268 posts)Punish us too Daddy! We are bad bad children and don't deserve your ICE!