Oakland Mayor Who Saved 800 Illegals From ICE Raids Just Got Swift Justice From Trump
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President Trump has given Attorney General Jeff Sessions the ‘nod’ to look into bringing charges against the mayor of Oakland, Libby Schaaf, for obstructing the job of agents from the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). She’s accused of using social media to send a warning to illegal immigrants about raids that would happen and it allowed about 800 people to evade the agents and not be arrested. Many of the people who avoided the agents were violent offenders who are now back on the streets and pose a potential risk to citizens.
The president had previously insisted on a harsh penalty for Schaaf for her actions. His remarks were aimed directly at Attorney General Sessions, who was one of nearly two dozen opponents of illegal immigration gathered for a public meeting at the White House.
Trump said, “You talk about obstruction of justice. I would recommend that you look at obstruction of justice for the mayor of Oakland,” Trump said, nodding in Sessions’ direction. “To me, that’s obstruction of justice. Perhaps the Department of Justice can look into that.”
Here is President Trump addressing the situation.
Schaaf has since been unapologetic and downright defiant about her decision to warn Bay Area illegal immigrants who have committed a felony about pending arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents back in February. The result, federal officials said at the time, was to reduce the number of arrests of those suspected of being in the country illegally and it put our agents in harm’s way by alerting these criminals of the plan.
Here is more on the situation from Breitbart:
“The Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) will file a lawsuit Monday seeking to force Oakland, California, to produce documents related to its mayor Libby Schaaf’s decision to tip off illegal aliens to a major enforcement action in February, IRLI Executive Director Dale Wilcox revealed for the first time on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Sunday.
We’re “tired of these state and local jurisdictions who are thumbing their nose at our duly enacted immigration laws,” Wilcox told Breitbart News Deputy Political Editor Amanda House.
In February, a San Francisco Bay-wide operation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aimed at criminal illegal aliens netted 232 apprehensions, including 115 with serious criminal records. But, according to ICE Director Thomas Homan, more than 800 others escaped after Libby Schaaf broke the secrecy of the action, explicitly in order to protect illegals from discovery.
In a Fox and Friends interview in the aftermath of the operation, an outraged Homan accused Schaaf of acting like “a gang lookout yelling ‘police.’” Attorney General Jeff Sessions was even more emphatic. “How dare you?” he asked during his announcement of his department’s lawsuits to strike down California’s so-called “sanctuary” policies. “How dare you needlessly endanger the lives of our law enforcement officers to promote a radical open borders agenda?”
Schaaf defended her actions, claiming they did not endanger law enforcement and only told “people what the law is, what their rights are, what their resources are.”
IRLI requested copies of emails and other internal communications between Schaff and her top-level staff related to Schaaf’s public tip-off under the California Public Records Act (CPRA), but according to IRLI’s complaint, the assigned deadline passed without any documents being produced. IRLI is now suing to force Oakland to hand over the documents.
“I think [the documents are] going to expose [Schaaf and her staff] radical open-borders philosophy and how … [Schaaf] has been scheming with the chief of police,” Wilcox told House about what IRLI hopes their lawsuit will uncover. “She has mentioned in news reports about conversations she’s had with her chief of police over tipping off illegal aliens. She’s been quite brazen. She’s actually said she’s willing to go to jail to defend criminal illegal aliens.”
Schaaf’s tip-off provoked a strong reaction but rocketed her into the forefront of politics in California, where she is running for re-election. The gambit attracted the endorsement of rising Resistance star Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), for example