Darrell Castle talks about the lawsuit by the Department of Justice against the State of California seeking to reverse certain California laws that are in conflict with Federal  immigration laws.

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COLD CIVIL WAR IN CALIFORNIA

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report.  Thank you for joining me today, Friday, March 16, 2018.  On today’s report I will be talking about the conflict that continues to escalate in California as the leadership of that state defies and attempts to nullify Federal law.  An interesting reversal of roles has occurred since our last Civil War as suddenly Governor Jerry Brown sounds like he is channeling John C. Calhoun against Jeff Sessions in the role of Abraham Lincoln, or possibly Ulysses Grant.

It seems that California has suddenly discovered the 10th amendment just when it suits that state’s leadership to do so.  Until the sanctuary cities and sanctuary state controversy came along, California didn’t seem to care much about the rights of the sovereign states, but now all of a sudden, it does.  The controversy basically involves California as a state, along with a number of cities, declaring themselves as sanctuary cities in defiance of federal law on immigration.  Sanctuary states and cities purport to serve as sanctuary zones where those crossing the nation’s borders illegally can flee and be free, protected from federal immigration authorities.

California has, in effect, nullified federal law just as the states of the old south did prior to the Civil War.  California has done things such as require employers to warn employees that immigration authorities were coming, and even require employers not to cooperate with immigration authorities.  When an ICE raid was scheduled in Oakland, supposedly to arrest 800 known criminal aliens, many of them accused of violent crimes such as rape, the mayor of Oakland, Libby Schaaf warned them that the raid was coming and told them to flee.  So California seeks to protect even the most violent criminals as long as at least one of their crimes was coming to this country illegally.

On March 7th , Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave a speech to the California Peace Officer’s Association in which he announced that the day before he had asked the Department of Justice to file a lawsuit against the State of California seeking to set aside certain California laws which he believes violate federal law.  Let me just give you a few quotes from his speech:

“There is no nullification. There is no secession. Federal law is “the supreme law of the land.”  I would invite any doubters to Gettysburg, and to the graves of John C. Calhoun and Abraham Lincoln.  A refusal to apprehend and deport those, especially the criminal element, effectively rejects all immigration law and creates an open borders system.  Open borders is a radical, irrational idea that cannot be accepted.  The United States of America is not “an idea”, it is a secular nation state with a Constitution, laws, and borders, all of which are designed to protect our nation’s interests.”

In response, California Senator Kamala Harris took issue with Mr. Sessions’ using Civil War rhetoric to describe the situation in California.  She said, “His credibility is pretty much shot on those issues.”  “California represents the future and they don’t like it.  Jeff Sessions has clearly put a target on the back of California and California is going to fight.”  Governor Jerry Brown referred to the lawsuit as “an act of war” and part of a “reign of terror.”

Senator Harris referred to California and its policies regarding illegal aliens as the future.  Let’s take a look at what our future actually will look like then, in Senator Harris’ view.  The Orange County Register published in its March 8, 2018 edition, a report by the Orange County Public Works Department of its cleanup of one homeless camp in Anaheim, California; just one camp.