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Eight percent of Los Angeles County is illegal. This is where 800,000 illegal aliens out of an estimated 3 million statewide (the real numbers are likely much higher) have been harbored.
And that may be about to change.
In no county and state has the political power of the Democrats been as closely tied to open borders as in Los Angeles County and California. Flipping California convinced the Democrats to tie their national fortunes to mass migration and for a while it seemed to be working.
Biden’s open borders team, from Border Czar Kamala Harris to Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and USCIS director Ur Mendoza Jaddou, were not only Californians, but typical products of its diverse checkbox political class who rejected the idea of national borders.
California deportations had sharply dropped off after the state began implementing pro-illegal and pro-crime laws in 2014, falling from a high of nearly 100,000 to less than 4,000 in 2024. With the California Values Act (SB 54) blocking law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities in place, the first Trump administration struggled to bring deportations up to around 30,000 a year and under Biden deportations effectively disappeared in California.
But the 2024 election may be about to crack the nation’s worst sanctuary state, county and city.
If Kamala had won, she would have been the first White House Democrat from California, but instead California Democrats in the largest illegal alien county in the country are panicking.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors introduced a motion declaring that their 800,000 illegal alien base is “crucial to our economy, workforce and cultural diversity.” The board moved to create a Department of Immigrant Affairs to resist federal immigration policies.
Supervisors Hilda Solis fumed that Trump had created a “deep sense of instability” for illegals while Janice Hahn warned of the past “devastating impact” of enforcing laws on illegal aliens.
LA County is already a ‘sanctuary county’ and bans county sheriffs from turning over illegal alien criminals to federal immigration authorities. The municipality of Los Angeles is also moving to impose a ‘sanctuary city’ law that will ban the LAPD and city officials from cooperating with the federal government. Councilman Bob Blumenfeld, who represents a district with illegal aliens, claimed that LA is “hardening our defenses” in the face of federal immigration enforcement.
“The city of Los Angeles will protect all Angelenos,” Mayor Karen Bass claimed. ”Many of the immigrant protections here in Los Angeles have been in place for decades. Today’s action reinforces our commitment to protect our immigrant community and to keep all Angelenos safe.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom had announced a special session to “Trump-proof” California. While the session was heavily hyped, Newsom, a prospective presidential candidate in 2028, used it to plead for money to engage in lawfare against the incoming administration. Newsom’s special session proclamation however made little mention of illegal aliens or resisting deportations.
“We’ve thought about all the possibilities, and have prepared for every one of them and are ready to take action when there’s any unlawful activity,” Attorney General Rob Bonta, who had been expecting a spot in Kamala’s cabinet, boasted that he was preparing for “a full frontal assault on our immigrant communities.” Mostly though he’s preparing to run for governor.
California has long since functioned as an illegal alien state and under Gov. Newsom rolled out measures meant to block immigration enforcement by the state’s law-abiding counties and areas. Under California’s illegal laws, local law enforcement officers can be charged with a felony and lose their pensions for lawfully working with federal immigration authorities.
That will be the first obstacle for the Trump administration, but not the last. And yet Trump may have a surprising base of support for his efforts in the state from its Latino population.
California Democrats preparing to go to war with Trump and the majority of Americans who support the mass deportation of illegal aliens are convinced that it’s still the 90s and that the state’s large Latino population will stand with them, but that may no longer be the case.
Despite some of the worst election rigging in the state with weeks of vote counting that once again saw Republican and moderate candidates toppled by ‘late-arriving’ ballot harvester votes, Trump’s numbers improved in virtually every majority Latino county in the state.
A CalMatters analysis actually showed that “counties with a higher share of Latino population swung further toward Trump” and a recent New York Times story warned that Trump’s victory in Fresno County reflected growing Latino support for a crackdown on open borders migration.
Democrats tried to rally opposition to Proposition 36 which would ‘recriminalize’ crime by warning, among other things, that it would lead to more deportations of illegal alien criminals.
Despite that, 68% of California voters backed Prop 36 putting law and order ahead of illegals.
Polls show that a majority of Californians believe that the border is in a state of crisis and with Latino support weakening, California Democrats are picking a battle with no backing.
Despite the tough talk from Gov. Newsom and AG Bonta who are looking to move up, California Democrats appear nervous about an upcoming showdown. Newsom has been notably less enthusiastic about Democrat legislative proposals to provide unemployment and subsidies for illegal aliens to buy houses and get phone discounts. California is in a difficult financial situation and Newsom may have sensed that changing public sentiments no longer favor illegal aliens.
Newsom’s presidential ambitions may leave California Democrats leaderless when fighting for illegal aliens. California Democrats built up a dubious infrastructure of laws that have never really been tested and the coming legal clashes may determine the ilegality of illegal alien ‘sanctuaries’ beginning with California’s extensive criminal justice system.
California has blocked the release of transparent information about its illegal alien criminal population, but past data analyzed by the Federation for American Immigration Reform showed that “illegals were more than twice as likely to be in prison in California” and a GAO report documented that the “average criminal illegal alien in California has six convictions”.
And this is where the first wave of the struggle over California’s illegal alien population will be.
California Democrats have done everything possible to protect illegal alien criminals from deportation, but the 2024 election shows that they no longer have the support of the public.
Is California really prepared to go to war to keep illegal alien murderers and rapists in America?
Start jailing the Democrat politicians and public officials responsible for these egregious breaches of Federal Law.
10 to 15 years stints would be appropriate.
Actually, harboring and protecting illegals should be tantamount to treason.
It IS treason. And worse.
It’s interesting that Greenfield mentions nothing about this scenario. Maybe he’s saving it for a future posting. Or maybe the scenario is unconstitutional. It’s certainly controversial. But it sounds good to me. It would be unnecessary to send large numbers of rats to prison. Just start with Newsom, and then maybe follow with Hochul, Pritzker, and the Denver mayor. That would do it.
I’m all for it.
They all have to go to jail because, as the Dems have told us repeatedly over the past nine years: “NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW!!!”
( … it’s a damn good thing an illegal alien hasn’t been found guilty of over valuing some real estate … ‘cuz then he’d be facing some serious jail time and a $400 million fine … !)
SOLUTION: SHUT DOWN THE BORDER TO ALL HUMANS EXCEPT TO EXIT! NO ENTRY PERIOD! Let Mexico take care of the mobs. Only then will they stop the flow from airports and the Guatemalan border! The mobs you see walking are in a two-mile buffer zone. They take the cheap buses to the border, walk, then get to the Mexican border. THEY DO NOT WALK from other countries like the media portrays to gain sympathy.
(While in Chiapas, a newscast showed a large soccer stadium parking lot filled with white unmarked buses with lines of ILLEGALS getting in them. The Reporter: “The ARMY is going to escort this caravan to the U.S. border!” American anglos had large banners: “No Human is ILLEGAL!” MEXICO IS HELPING THEM! SHUT IT DOWN!)
“WE THE PEOPLE” have spoken and now “WE” need to rise up against an agenda promoted by The Enemy Within! “WE” have vehicle parades with all our Flags. “WE” had one here in Albuquerque that was blocks long, hundreds of vehicles.
THE ENEMY WITHIN MOBS shut down streets, no permits, no arrests, all in support of foreign enemies, now openly supporting terrorists and seeking the elimination of an entire people, “from the river to the sea” and from universities and elsewhere!
THE ACLU is teaching the ILLEGALS to lie to immigration authorities. “Don’t say this… don’t say that.” Now they are bragging that they will take down Trump by filing claims against him just to slow him down. Remember when he signed an EO, a Judge was ready to claim, “unconstitutional” and that alone puts the brakes on taking years, if ever, to resolve, therefore, THEY continue to aid and abet!
WHEN ARE “WE” GOING TO TAKE TO THE STREETS FOR THE MANY ISSUES THE DEMOCRATS ARE PUSHING ON AMERICA? They’re planning on torching our cities on J6 and J20 and we’ll watch them on TV… and get really, no, really really, MAD!
Harboring illegal crimes isn’t treason, but it is already a crime under federal law – Title 8 U.S. Code, section 1324. The punishment is up to one year in prison, with greater penalties in certain circumstances, for example if someone dies because of the violation.
That raises the interesting question of those aliens who have injured or killed American citizens because they were sheltered in “sanctuary” cities – can the Democrats responsible face enhanced criminal penalties? Of course, this and other laws were simply ignored by the Obama-Harris-Biden DOJ.
Yes, and if a person reads section 1324 that person will be surprised at how inclusive and diverse are the specifications of acts that constitute criminal violations. More inclusive and diverse than California itself.
Re charges of treason, the fact that Dem officials have knowingly facilitated the entry of terrorists (including Hezbollah), international criminal gangs, narco-terrorist cartels, and operatives from China, Iran, Venezuela, and other active enemies of the U.S. should qualify as treasonous acts under the Constitution. Trials on the scale of Nuremberg (or larger) should be initiated in 2025 and the perpetrators given the ultimate penalties called out in the Constitution. Just ejecting these cretins from public or private positions is not justice. Until real justice is served to these real traitors and seditionists there can be no real peace and no beginning of a restoration of public trust in USG institutions (if that is even possible at this point).
We have crossed the Rubicon, and the Progressive Democrat apparatchiks and their fellow travelers of all stripes (including all their dark money agents) have to be removed from the political and cultural spheres of the U.S. and dumped on the ash heap of history along with their socialist comrades from Stalin’s Soviet Communist Party, the Nazi Party, and Mao’s CCP,
As I noted above. . First thing Trump should do is Federalize California’s National Guard and start intercepting and holding illegals. Station guards ourside of jails and prisons and hold every illegal released. . .
Remember how Eisenhour forced educational equality on Arkansas back in the 1950’s? Time to show Newsom and his childish games of “Sanctuary State” are meaningless.
Now contemplate that LA is just one of many dump-zones for these insurgent troops across America.
All you need now is a “community organizer”…. a charismatic figure to save these poor victims of American oppression.
It’s amazing how anarchists have become so highly coordinated. Kind of an oxymoron.
Very astute. I saw how those commu… organizers work back in the 1960’s. Until “suddenly” there was popular sentiment against the war in Vietnam, along with the rise of the violent Black Power movement and the big push by the women’s lib folks (all of which I heartily supported and preached). Today, I am aghast at how it all happened. So simple. Now I realize they were actual communist organizers. I was introduced around in the Bay Area so I could become a working part of the thrust. Too bad for them, I was and always am a patriot in my heart and had enough teaching in school about our values and our Constitution to bring me through to the right side and desire to work in American business. A narrow escape.
“Supervisors Hilda Solis fumed that Trump had created a “deep sense of instability” for illegals while Janice Hahn warned of the past “devastating impact” of enforcing laws on illegal aliens.”
I just don’t know how I will sleep at night or get through the day knowing that Trump has created a “deep sense of instability” for people who shouldn’t be here in the first place.
Solis and Hahn are the typical progressive idiots one would expect in Crapifornia.
Let LA LA colapse in a cesspool of crap.
Eventually this sick behavior has an end point.
Than the few normal people who are left will
straighten out the problem.
Yes, states gave rights….but NOT over Federal Immigration laws. It’s high time this city and others like Los Angeles find out what it’s like to be hauled off into prison for thinking they can be active participants in violating Federal Immigration law!! Let them be arrested…like what will also happen to those yapping liberal dogs like Mayor Mike Johnston in Colorado!!!
This is America and coming here has requirements so let ALL those who think they’re above the law meet our new Border Czar, Tom Homan….
And all the $$ being spent on these illegals at the expense of UNWILLING taxpayers, that seize is about to be squeezed so that money goes to help our veterans and other American citizens in need or recovering from natural disasters FEMA wouldn’t help because their budget went to help illegals in our country😡.
LA-so you say you need illegals as an important part of the economy there? Don’t cry, there are hardworking Americans that can and will do those jobs with one caveat, you’ll pay them above the slave labor wages you do now. Tsk, tsk..It’s really a bitch being called out for your criminal behavior. And as for that silver-spoon mutt Governor Newsome, we don’t care about your nefarious state laws in violation of Federal Immigration law, we’ll happily two-step you into the orange jumper too. Your illegal rampages over this nation…CLINK! CLINK!!!
Wonder what the Democrats in CA will do if and when these things percolate up to the supreme court, and they find themselves in direct opposition to rulings from the highest legal authority in the land? Won’t that be creeping ever closer to a kind of “insurrection”? Will Newsom et al push it that far?
Why not build a wall to keep Angelinos and the illegals INSIDE the state? That would work and maybe knock some sense into the people who keep voting for the nonsense.
Those County Officials should all be doing 40 or 50 Years in Prison for Sheltering the Enemy
“LA County is already a ‘sanctuary county’ and bans county sheriffs from turning over illegal alien criminals to federal immigration authorities.”
Damn right. It is against fed law to knowingly harbor illegal aliens. Bondi needs to start prosecuting these people a la the Dem fave: “No one is above the law (except Democrats).”
The best way to teach a child a lesson is to give them what they want! The DEMOcrats in CA want illegals so GIVE them ALL the illegals! Make it known that we have PRIORITIES and that CA is not a top one for deportations! ENCOURAGE illegals to “migrate” to CA! And, at the same time, END any and ALL Federal Funding for CA!
The DECENT people of CA have suffered long enough under the INSANITY of the LEFT! The R’s made headway in the 2024 elections only to see those gains wiped out through WEEKS of “finding and curing” ballots! This outright FRAUD should be ended! I do sympathize with ordinary, decent CA people and hope that someday they will break free from the insanity – maybe it’s time to take a REAL look into breaking CA into FIVE new States – FOUR of which will be bright RED!
It wasn’t that long ago that the Obama administration was threatening Arizona for usurping federal authority on immigration. So I’m sure that President Obama would agree that Karen Bass, Gavin Newsome, and all the rest who are participating in this usurpation of federal authority need to be arrested and jailed.
This is an insurrection by Los Angeles and California, plain and simple.
Arrest warrants and jail for our so called leaders will be THE important first step in ridding ourselves of this illegal criminal alien scourge. Otherwise it will continue unabated…
as will the extensive unreported crime…
I fervently hope that Trump will toss every one of these America-hating miscreants in prison. Let’s see how their “priveleged status” protects their collective sick asses.
Failing that, cut off ALL FEDERAL AID TO ANY CITY OR COUNTY THAT HARBORS ILLEGAL CRIMINALS. That’ll save the country plenty of money that can go for the good of REAL AMERICANS unlike them.
The mewling from these idiots is laughable. They worry about maintaining a “work force” and DIVERSITY? How many fish taco stands do they need in Los Angeles?
The work force would be quite stable, paying taxes, and unconcerned about the coming sweep had they entered the country legally. After Homan gets his work done, the demographics of California will change.
The percentage of White and Asian, and Blacks will rise.
Lawn care will suffer for a while, Fentanyl deaths and aggravated rape will decline.
Several politicians who get in their way will be in orange jump suits under Federal charges.
Why are we not considering and investigating the possibility that the Cartel gangsters own the Democratic Party in California, and that they use a carrot and stick approach. In other words, the Democrats are scared for their lives and those of their children. The Cartels have unlimited, untraceable amounts of money. This theory could explain all their strange, anti-American behavior.
think you nailed it. thats why deportations should be to the point of entry. same with the drugs. see how mexico likes it.
I don’t see how these so called officials can legally ‘ban’ any Sheriff from doing anything of the sort. No Sheriff would be obligated to do anything illegal, and is under no obligation to do anything that would violate their oath to the people of the State they are serving, or the Constitution of the United States.
These Sheriffs should all tell these so called ‘officials’ to pound sand and stand up for what’s right, a Sheriff is an elected office, and is placed there by the people, and can be removed by the people just as quickly. If a Sheriff runs for office on the idea of removing the illegals, and I bet you my last $ that if Trump supports that person, he would be elected for that position is a heart beat….
I live in California a one party state. Have been waiting a long time for illegals here being deported. We probably have over 5 million of them. Gov. Gruesome is toast. Nothing but a empty suit. Trump is going to crack down on these sanctuary states, counties, cities etc. by cutting off all the funds they get from the DOJ. Let’s see what they do or say then.
Let the fired government workers take their place picking crops. Problem solved.
I say that Trump creates a new camp wherein he can place all of those city and state officials who interfere in deporting the illegals. The camp can be put in Death Valley, and the buildings only have slow turning, squeaky ceiling fans.
What would be the most ideal environment for a drug cartel than having complete freedom to traverse across the American border in a sanctuary city/ county/state. They and their American partners will make billions.
Trump should use the military to blockade all traffic to and from Los Angeles until they march the illegals out. The Libs have turned the city into Tijuana and they wish to do this nationwide. They must pay a price so it never happens again.
PLEASE! Do Not Jail Cali immigration thugs.
Simpler and less expensive to my RED Flyover state, simply cut off ALL federal subsidies to the ENTIRE state. THAT will get their attention. Oregon, Washington and Colorado too.
Illinois, and New England will hear the bell ring. Enough of this b*llshit; which is why we fought a Civil war,
If states want to establish their own immigration policies/rules, then succeed from the union. The door won’t hit you as you leave.
Many will be happy to see you go….
The government is in lawless rebellion against their own citizens. Lets hope the new administration totally enforces the law, no matter what it takes, and stops the abuse of children, and the violence and gangs that are destroying American cities.
Ready! Aim!…..🔥
Yes, here in California they are totally prepared to keep their illegals because of a disease named and made famous by the one and only Michael Savage, inimitable radio host for years in the SF Bay Area. It is called Liberalism, a Mental Disorder. Clearly. And rampant, especially around the bay. In the valley, the farmlands, not so much.
Love the sentiments in the comments …
But to be clear:
I want to see the illegals deported, and the Demokkkrats investigated for immigration violations, and the election offices strangled with MOUs to keep them honest – at least for two cycles.
Because – while LA is hive of scum and villainy –
Lots of good Americans live there still. Orange county is still a Red Hot county – once we discount the cheating.
I don’t want to give away our neighbors’ land to a bunch of invaders.