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The political struggle over immigration between the federal Government and the state of Minnesota has ended with a compromise. The Trump administration backed down by ending the immigration enforcement crackdown in Minnesota. State and local government officials backed down by allowing immigration detentions to occur at jails rather than on the street. Although we’re happy to see that these government officials (largely Democratic) have finally agreed to cooperate in the deportation of criminal immigrants, the upshot is that there will remain a very large number of migrants who crossed Biden’s open border, who will now be allowed to remain in sanctuary cities and states.


However, this political battle is not over, and it won’t be confined to Minnesota. President Trump has not given up on his policy of mass deportation, and ICE will continue to increase arrests in states across the U.S. Therefore, Federal officials are scouting cities and counties across the U.S. for places to hold immigrants as they roll out a massive $45 billion expansion of detention facilities to detain immigrants that crossed our border illegally. While State and local governments can decline to lease detention space to ICE, they generally cannot prohibit businesses and private landowners from using their property for federal immigrant detention centers.


Democrats are pushing back hard. A Democratic led filibuster in the U.S. Senate has led to a partial government shutdown. Democrats are demanding sweeping reforms to the White House’s immigration tactics, including an overhaul of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.” According to various sources, number one on the Democrats’ wish list for ICE is a requirement for “judicial warrants.”


What does that mean? Take a look at Minnesota, where there are 16,840 final orders at large. “Final orders” mean that each alien has already received their full measure of due process. They have been ordered deported from America but have not complied. In the whole United States, there are over 1.5 million illegal immigrants with deportation orders. However, if Judicial warrants are now required, then an entire new due process system would necessarily restart. According to an excellent article in the Power Line blog linked below, processing 1.5 million warrants nationwide would require 750 judge-years. In effect, “the requirement for judicial warrants is a demand to end enforcement of immigration laws and a requirement to open the borders.”


I don’t know how this particular political drama in Congress will end, but President Trump has another way to force the issue. The way I read it, the President is saying to sanctuary cities and states, if you want the illegals to stay, you pay for them; for the federal government will not. This process started within hours of his return to office when he ordered his administration to ensure sanctuary jurisdictions "do not receive access to Federal funds." Weeks later, the president ordered that federal funding shouldn't "facilitate the subsidization or promotion of illegal immigration," and Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Justice Department will not offer grants to sanctuary cities. If the President succeeds in this effort, it will end badly for the sanctuary cities and states, which are already running large budget deficits, and which do not have the resources to replace federal government payments.


Money does talk, and we think taking away federal grants to sanctuary cities and states will probably be more effective than the surge of ICE agents that happened in Minnesota.


For a more detailed look at the Presidents efforts in these regards, we recommend readers pursue the following links.



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