(New York, NY) – On a Monday in Los Angeles, California, Mayor Karen Bass was hard at work inside MacArthur Park — in her city’s Westlake District. She was working the phones and yelling at employees in a bid to get things done. But what was she doing, you might wonder? Perhaps responding to an ongoing pattern of thefts or assaults. Maybe she was helping a community rebuild six months after wildfires devastated LA. Or — in the height of summer — she might have been helping to coordinate a local day camp’s trip to a city pool.
No. She was doing none of those things. In fact, she was doing absolutely nothing for the citizens of LA — and doing the absolute most for its illegal denizens. Mayor Bass was braying and stomping her feet because federal agents were carrying out an enforcement operation there in MacArthur Park. As Donna Summer once said — the sweet green icing is flowing down, and so are the crocodile tears — as US Democrats demand federal citizenship laws be ignored.
The term “sanctuary city” is routinely used by leftist Democrats. It sounds nice. Sanctuary is defined as a sacred place, a place of refuge or protection, or a space that offers safety and peace. How comforting. In reality, a “city” or “state” designated as such means actively thwarting border security, citizenship, assimilation, community, progress, and being American.
Take Mayor Bass, for example. She and other Democrats say “sanctuary” policies simply refer to how local police departments are directed to act. In LA, as in New York, and Chicago, and San Francisco, etc. — “sanctuary” means local cops don’t interact with immigration cops — and more specifically, local cops don’t help with deportation efforts. Okay, and that’d be one thing if that was the truth. The reality is that “sanctuary” means active disruption of and attempting thwarting of immigration enforcement.
We’ve seen it in LA for sure, where Mayor Bass empowered rioters by refusing to condemn their actions and barely lifting a finger to stop their mayhem. The state’s governor, Democrat Gavin Newsom, performed a similar role by pushing back on President Trump’s deployment of National Guard members — despite the fact he once deployed the same guard in a stunt tied to January 6, 2021. Mayor Bass kept it going in MacArthur Park, doing her best to stop ICE agents from doing their jobs.
It’s not just Mayor Bass, of course. There’s innumerable, unending, nameless and faceless federal judges issuing injunctions and stays and doing whatever their robes allow when it comes to thwarting operations. Other mayors and governors around the US enforce “sanctuary” policies in a bid to stop federal citizenship from being enforced.
Said differently, it’d almost be like Mayor Bass setting up a massive pot-smoking lounge in the middle of MacArthur Park, and then blocking any federal agents from entering. Marijuana is legal in California, and damn-it if she won’t stop federal law from being enforced. The silliness of that example is clear. No federal cops are actually messing with marijuana operations. But the point remains — and actually, we probably shouldn’t be giving Bass any ideas.
Don’t be fooled by the haze. “Sanctuary” just means “disruption” and “we demand that illegal immigration be permitted” — when uttered by Democrats.
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