October 04, 2019
Was the Cop who Cooperated with ICE Wrong?
Timothy Birdnow
Tim McNabb makes the following point:
Liberal County quickly reverses "disgusting" Suspension of Cop who turned Illegal over to ICE
I disagree with his reasoning here.
Police take an oath to uphold the law, and Federal law has supremacy in cases like this. This cop was being forced to break his oath by the local authorities.
Does this mean a cop cannot cooperate with an FBI probe of a lynching if local authorities decide he shouldn't? That used to happen in the old South, but the issue has been long settled. You can't do it.
The Constitution grants authority over immigration issues to the Federal government, not state or local governments, and the Obama Administration sued Arizona for enforcing Federal law inside the state. That was wrong, because the state law was a mirror image of the Federal, but it happened nonetheless.
In this instance the local authorities are openly defying the lawful authority here. The cop has a sworn duty to uphold the law.
And if the people forcing him to disobey the law are then forced to renege because of public pressure, so be it. After all, the Left has used such pressure to force our side to toe their line. Remember when Mike Pence was going to sign a bill in Indiana protecting Christians from being forced to perform acts in violation of their consciences (such as baking cakes for gay weddings)? The Left started a blitzkrieg of media and internet fury and Pence backed down. If they can do it, so can we.
Tim McNabb makes the following point:
OK - Time Out...
Beat cops have no business setting policy. If the Boss says to leave ICE out of it, you can resign, or do what you are told.
The people in a jurisdiction set policy through their elected officials, and elected officials are accountable at the ballot box. Not beat cops.
I disagree with his reasoning here.
Police take an oath to uphold the law, and Federal law has supremacy in cases like this. This cop was being forced to break his oath by the local authorities.
Does this mean a cop cannot cooperate with an FBI probe of a lynching if local authorities decide he shouldn't? That used to happen in the old South, but the issue has been long settled. You can't do it.
The Constitution grants authority over immigration issues to the Federal government, not state or local governments, and the Obama Administration sued Arizona for enforcing Federal law inside the state. That was wrong, because the state law was a mirror image of the Federal, but it happened nonetheless.
In this instance the local authorities are openly defying the lawful authority here. The cop has a sworn duty to uphold the law.
And if the people forcing him to disobey the law are then forced to renege because of public pressure, so be it. After all, the Left has used such pressure to force our side to toe their line. Remember when Mike Pence was going to sign a bill in Indiana protecting Christians from being forced to perform acts in violation of their consciences (such as baking cakes for gay weddings)? The Left started a blitzkrieg of media and internet fury and Pence backed down. If they can do it, so can we.
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