Fear of a massive immigration crackdown is sweeping through the metro and the nation . . .
Here are a few news items that offer an overview of the situation along with somewhat local reaction:
Vox: Mayors and protesters remain defiant ahead of ICE raids: “You’re going to have to come through us”
Fox News: Armed man shot, killed after launching flares at ICE facility
Fox4: Rally calls on Lawrence to be declared sanctuary city
Hill: Americans do not support Trump's ICE raids
Fox News: Democrats commit political suicide on immigration
NBCNews: Former ICE chief says raids announced for political gain, endangering migrants, agents
Let's not forget that Mayor Sly famously led an immigration rally with a bullhorn at the airport during the outset of the Prez Trump immigration crackdown.
In spirit, the current crop of local politicos also seem to favor immigration leniency.
Mayor-Elect Quinton Lucas promised a KCMO ID card during his "racial justice" campaign -- The form of ID would be issued to every resident who asked for it regardless of immigration status.
It's also worth remembering that KCPD has endorsed and provided funding for the "CAN CENTER" community outreach approach that offers housing and help to many migrants without regard to their immigration status. The strategy hopes to facilitate communication with immigrant communities and prioritizes fighting violent crime over playing border patrol agent -- The strategy has proven largely successful as KCMO Latino/immigrant neighborhoods have achieved far less crime than neighboring immigrant or urban core communities.
And all of this prologue leads us to the only question that matters:
WILL KANSAS CITY COOPERATE WITH THE PREZ TRUMP IMMIGRATION ICE CRACKDOWN OR MOVE CLOSER TO "SANCTUARY CITY" STATUS?!?!
In KCMO, local politicos earn a great deal of cred for thumbing their nose at the Prez and Republican leaders in Jeff City.
However, the lead up to this crackdown has been more subdued given the upcoming power transition at 12th & Oak.
And all of this has inspired tonight's playlist . . .
As always, thanks for reading this week and have a safe and fun Saturday night . . .
Johnson County won't even cooperate. Suburbanites talk a good game about illegal immigration but notice that a lot of them love the cheap labor and profit from it. Agree with the link from the official who says this is a dangerous publicity stunt.
ReplyDeleteWhat ever happened to that wall?
The wall is underway.
DeleteIt's moving forward nicely just like this.
Trump 2020.
8:18 nice one!
ReplyDeleteIf we could just get the dummocraps to let Trump build 650 miles of wall like Barry did, we wouldn’t and shouldn’t have the crisis at the border. Truth. Fact. Sad.
Everyone who is on ICE's list is the subject of a final Removal Order. The "mayors and protesters" who say you're going to have to come through us to execute those orders should have to spend more than a few nights in the pokey for interfering with a valid federal law enforcement operation. Won't happen, but one can hope.
ReplyDeleteFear? It more like anticipation. It's about time the United States either enforced its immigration laws or abolish them. This notion you can choose which laws to obey and which to flagrantly ignore undermines any respect for laws.
ReplyDeleteNot your call, Mayors.
ReplyDeleteSorry.
Our nation should concern itself with "fighting violent crime over playing border patrol agent".
ReplyDeleteInstead of harassing refugees fleeing the cartels, we should be waging war against the cartels. They are the root cause of your violence problem.
This isn't about the "rule of law", this is about a hateful man making political hay of the struggles of innocent women & children. Our President is stoking fear & hatred for his own selfish aims. His hate agenda should be resisted as much as possible.
If ICE knocks on your door, you are not compelled to answer, & they cannot force their way in.
GET A DAMN CLUE, BIG BLABBING bLIEron!!!!!!
DeleteThese "refugees","migrants", "asylum seekers", and "unaccompanied minors" HAVE CRIMININALS AMONGST THEM!!!!!!
CARTELS ARE SENDING THEIR FOOT SOLDIERS AND THOSE CARTELS' VICTIMS TO OUR BORDERS.
THERE ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS--and some are bringing "sex slaves" with them. Kidnapped children and young adults have been discovered in the company of strangers.
THERE ARE DRUG TRAFFICKERS--and plenty have demonstrated terrible violence in the conducting of their narco enterprises in their homelands. Our nation's prisons attest to the prolific state of the illicit drug trades and the associated violence.
THERE ARE FORCED LABOR TRAFFICKERS--they deceive migrants with promises of providing them good jobs and comfortable housing, which doesn't materialize. Various forms of abuse and threats of harm to loved ones is perpetrated on the victims to try to exploit them through paying low wages and making excessive work demands.
THERE ARE IDENTITY THIEVES AND FRAUDSTERS--criminals are stealing directly from targeted persons through identity thefts, and there are yuuuuge thefts frequently happening when the UNREPORTED INCOMES OF ILLEGALS (AND SOME ALREADY LEGALS, OR EVENTUALLY BECOMING LEGALS) ARE NOT TAXED!!!!!!
All these illegals need to wait in line and follow the law like everyone else. No other country lets this kind of crap happen. We can only hope that Americans are tired of giving handouts to people who don't want to follow the law and vote for Republicans in all the election races. Democrats have sold their souls in order to fight Trump, which is hurting Americans in many ways. Paychecks are going to be taxed beyond belief in a few years so the government can take care of all the illegals who don't work or who come over and have a baby on American soil so the baby is taken care of with all of our tax dollars. It's disgusting and it's time to stop it.
ReplyDeleteByron. Fair enough. Now tell me exactly how a war on the cartels would be waged? Personaly i have no problem sending the first marine division across the border and killing all of them. But you would protest that. So exactly how, short of an all out war with Mexico should we do this?
ReplyDeleteBut since nobody said jack shit about ICE raids or deportation centers when Bush and Obama were doing it, dont expect me to take any protestations seriously
If this , as you say, is about protections the women and children refugees, then shouldnt we take over Mexico and straighten it out?
8:17--Johnson Co. doesn't have any illegals.
ReplyDeleteWonder if we get them to take Chuck in a 2 for 1 swap out.
Byron you’re such an anti-law pussy that if the US was going after cartel leaders you would be shaming them and saying that the poor cartel leaders were just trying to earn a living. Like most leftist extremists, even if a fact is black, you’ll say white just to dissent from someone you don’t like personally. I couldn’t stand BHO, but in his eight years in office, I didn’t play tit for tat with everything he said or did that I didn’t agree with, and I sure as hell didn’t stay camped out on an out-of-state blog having keyboard diarrhea.
ReplyDeleteByron you’re such an anti-law pussy that if the US was going after cartel leaders you would be shaming them and saying that the poor cartel leaders were just trying to earn a living. Like most leftist extremists, even if a fact is black, you’ll say white just to dissent from someone you don’t like personally. I couldn’t stand BHO, but in his eight years in office, I didn’t play tit for tat with everything he said or did that I didn’t agree with, and I sure as hell didn’t stay camped out on an out-of-state blog having keyboard diarrhea.
ReplyDeleteMiddle class Americans are being replace with compliant, 3rd world immigrants who will vote for Democrats in order to collect the benefits.
ReplyDeleteFree Health Care etc. etc.
It's insane, but, the Main Stream Media can Gaslight idiots into anything.
Can we tell ICE that Kris Kobach is an illegal alien?
ReplyDeleteDEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADERSHIP DEMANDS:
ReplyDeleteSanctuary status for non-American-citizen illegal immigrants, while simultaneously promoting infanticide for the unborn babies of Americans.
WTF?
They're purposely trying to destroy America.
Abort Democrats in 2020!
10:22--Probably not but they might believe Kkkobach is an alien from another planet.
ReplyDeleteDer fuhrer funkmyass the illegals are part of the violent crime problem you fucking idiot.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, you have no right talking about other people being hateful, you’re the most hateful, worthless cock sucker on the planet earth.
No, it’s mostly the knee grows.
DeleteWILL KANSAS CITY COOPERATE WITH THE PREZ TRUMP IMMIGRATION ICE CRACKDOWN OR MOVE CLOSER TO "SANCTUARY CITY" STATUS?!?!
ReplyDeleteNo KC will not cooperate. They don't have to. Not because of progressive politics, but because there are no ICE crackdowns scheduled here. I guess Trump doesn't think we have a problem or are worth the resources for raids. Not that they would be successful anyway since Dear Leader shared the details of the operations with the public days ago. Sorry MAGA heads.
I like the use of quotes. At least someone realizes that "sanctuary cities" are not a thing. Counties, not cities, are designated on the basis of cooperation with ICE warrants. No county in Missouri has ever been labeled. Only 2 counties near Wichita were identified as sanctuary counties in Kansas. Local sheriffs have strongly denied that KC area counties are operating as sanctuaries. Any attempt to characterize our counties as such is fake news.
^^^ So I guess you're a little pissed that Trump's plan after 3 years is to pre-announce a 9 city raid to round up 2,000 families, many with US born dependents, aka US citizens.
ReplyDeleteA competent president would focus on the violent criminals you described and not give them a head start to hide.
Sorry about your disappointment. Trump's failures can't be easy to accept.
^^^^^+1000
ReplyDeleteDemocrats do not give a fuck about little Jaun and Jaunita, they need to replace the middle class voters they lost in the Rust Belt and are going to do it with Illegals, then support those same illegals, with money taken from the middle class voters they lost.
ReplyDeleteYou are being replaced and the dumb asses who can't effect 2nd grade math and see the truth are myopic, intellectual lemmings who, like Byron are Willfully Impercipient in pursuit of their own destruction by way of orders from the daily Gas-Lighting received from their Democrat Thought Leaders.
Imagining that they have the moral high ground, they are led like sheep to slaughter and only at the last minute, before the sword falls on their exposed necks, do they think, "SHIT!!! Chuck was right!!!!"
THWACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Welcome to the new America.
"They need to replace the middle class voters they lost in the Rust Belt and are going to do it with Illegals."
ReplyDeleteAnd just how are "illegals" going to vote, Chuck? Inquiring minds want to know.
Search: voter fraud, election tampering, vote ballots lost, vote ballots tampered, and vote machines tabulations higher than numbers of actual registered voters.
DeletePaper ballots are making a return. Even the manufacturers of the electronic voting devices advise that paper ballots are a more accurate means for tabulations, and for archiving data. Paper records cannot be easily hacked, altered, or destroyed!
Crazyfornia is finally getting around to purging 1.5 million inactive voters on its rolls. So, dead, jailed, and identity fraudsters are being cleaned out right along with the names of smart people who left the leftist loony bin areas!!!
Mr Funkhouser.
ReplyDeleteIf I have paper saying you have to be gone your door isn't going to stop me in making it happen. It's clear that we are a law enforcement agency, We have police authority. The primary duties of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents, also referred to as ICE Agents, are: Enforcing customs and immigration laws. Protecting federal facilities and commercial airlines. Apprehending, processing, detaining and deporting illegal or criminal aliens.
I am going to help by turning in the people on my street.
ReplyDeleteByron is a post middle aged guy posting from Raytown. He has played you all. Succas!
ReplyDeletebLIEron copies and paste most of his crazy deranged comments from the fake news organization called cnn, bLIEron with his mental disease hasn’t figured out that his so called news outlets have been dragging him down the gutter, pissing on him and laughing at him about it. Poor poor bLIEron and his blind ass can’t see the trees for the forest, there is no hope for him, evar. Sad Sad little man.
ReplyDelete@6:03 "How are illegals going to vote?" In many cities and states (escpecially California) they are given driver licenses or id cards which the Democrats have decided is sufficient id to cast an illegal vote in this nations's elections. And in places like Kansas City the buses run free on election day to get them to the polling sites. That's how it's done stupid.
ReplyDeleteHead ‘em up and move ‘em out, Rawhide!
ReplyDeleteChuck don't your fingers ever get tired?
ReplyDelete10:57 aka Funkyhoosier, does your mouth ever stick a sock in it?!
ReplyDeleteOh, right. You probably don't have room in there with Barry's, Hillary's, and the assorted poor POCs' and LBGTQs' asses getting sucked non-stop!!!
Funny, I searched: voter fraud, election tampering...
ReplyDeleteand the results were stories about KKKobach's epic fail in leading a full Trump commission to find fraud.
Illegals committing voter fraud is fake news. Just more lies from the racist-in-chief.