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© Thomson Reuters 2025.Trump administration warns city, state officials not to resist immigration crackdown
By Sarah N. Lynch and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
24 Comments
JeffLee
Oh my gawd, how controversial: enforcing your country's laws. How dare an elected administration do such a thing.
FizzBit
Europe is up next. Time for common sense to come back to most of the First World nations. Show them how it's done Donald.
JJE
American voters made their choice. Now it seems that 'polls' should override that.
The Avenger
75 percent of illegal workers did not show up for work in the San Joaquin valley today. Some people are saying it is winter time so it does not matter. It does matter, because an enormous pile of things - lettuce, carrots, grapes, spinach, brocolli, celery, oranges, lemons, are harvested at this time, it is never "winter" there. So there is something to the story and there might be shortages while the food rots.
Sympathy? NONE FOR THIS, the farmers set themselves up for this, My sympathy for the farmers is over the Delta smelt BS which Trump has already shut down. You can no longer cut off water to farmers over a fake fish issue, the "Delta smelt" are an invasive species anyway. So the farmers are going to have to accept a bit of give and take here.
bass4funk
Everyone acts so shocked, he campaigned on this, he said he would deport them if he would be re-elected, so here we are…
ok1517
bass,
yup, agree! He said it, people voted for him - now they start complaining.
They don't deserve any better!
Price for just everything will increase, eggs, vegetable, insulin, health care - all benefitting those oligarchs, billionaires and of course Trump and his clan. No way I feel sorry for MAGAs!!
theFu
If you aren't in the US legally, you should leave on your own, so you can take what's important to you - like your wife and children. Otherwise, I hope Trump removes all "carrots" from the bag of tricks used by illegal immigrants.
No access to any govt services should be allowed. City, state, or federal.
Enact laws that mandate employee validation of right to work. Every time I get a new job, I've had to provide I was allowed to work by showing documentation that proves it. As an employer, I had to check my people using e-verify to ensure they were legally allowed to work in the US. I don't understand why this is controversial.
America isn't anti-immigrant. We just don't want people skipping and jumping ahead of an existing, legal, line. People in the US illegally have skipped the line. That goes against the "fair play" idea we want in America. If someone tries to get in line for a concert before you, you wouldn't stand for it. Why should immigration be any different.
A law that prevents selling or long term renting for people in the US who aren't here legally needs to be passed too. These laws need to hold both the immigrants AND the employer/landlord/seller accountable. Put a few CEOs in jail for 5 yrs for hiring illegal immigrants and fine them 3x the pay for each illegal worker. Make it hurt.
For the illegal immigrants, make them have a lifetime ban on entering the US. Bury an RFID deep inside their tissue so it can't easily be removed, so they can be more easily caught in their next attempt.
Deportation isn't cost effective. No way can the US correctly deport all the illegal immigrants in the next 20 yrs. All the "carrots" need to be removed.
If this all doesn't work, I could be persuaded to allow non-lethal firearm use against illegal border crossings. Make fear be a deterrent for crossing the border away from official crossing locations. And just kill the Coyotes and blow up their vehicles, so they cannot be used.
No more carrots.
bass4funk
Liberals always complain
I agree
I don’t either, agreed and most of them were libs and Anti-Trump Republicans, they were warned, but they can always apply somewhere else.
lincolnman
Indeed - don't resist - there are too many employment vacancies at MAL, Bedminster, and Westchester...
Maids and groundskeepers are hard to find - especially illegal ones you can exploit and pay less....
Blacklabel
People in law enforcement are expected to enforce the law, yes. They don’t get to personally pick and choose.
kurisupisu
Either a country controls its borders or it doesn’t.
There is no halfway measure.
TaiwanIsNotChina
MAGAs: We are ending the lawfare right this very instant!!!
Also MAGAs: You will comply or else you will be indicted!!!
TaiwanIsNotChina
47 doesn't direct local law enforcement. You may wish he does but he doesn't.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Sounds like something that should be evaluated in court. I don't recall MAGA states being particularly compliant under Biden. The difference was Democrats weren't belligerent enough to declare martial law over it.
owzer
Not even remotely the same thing.
iknowall
The US prosecutors and state officials must obey the law.
Not too unique of a concept. Yet, the left will overreact and continue to show why the Democrats lost the presidential election.
Blacklabel
thats not “lawfare”.
Blacklabel
oh?
then what was this? Seems 46 thought local law enforcement had to do what he said under his federal immigration policy.
Yrral
Blacklabel on a court order can force them to comply,your representation of Trump is why he is a felon
bass4funk
At this rate, they're setting themselves to lose the midterms as well.
Ken
When life looks like a Twilight Zone/Black Mirror episode. What will happen first? WW3? Colonizing another country? Or J6 thugs hurting more police officers?
TaiwanIsNotChina
That's infrastructure and nothing else.
TaiwanIsNotChina
The Insurrection Act is already being considered. So how are my MAGA friends feeling about that these days?
bass4funk
Good because the Dems won't prevail in this.