In final days of session, legislature advances Landry immigration agenda
SB15 criminalizes the failure of local officials – including sheriffs and other law enforcement officers – to cooperate with federal immigration agencies, with penalties of up to 10 years in prison.
Up to 10 years in prison if you refuse to blindly follow orders? Seems reasonable /s
It also criminalizes acts by everyday Louisiana residents deemed to obstruct or “thwart” federal immigration enforcement efforts. It passed 71-30.
"Thwart" immigration efforts seems like it could be very loosely interpreted to mean anything from intentionally or even unintentionally obstructing or delaying efforts, peacefully protesting or expressing dissent, potentially interpreted to punish immigration lawyers for doing their job.
Also, just pointing out the city of New Orleans was already on that DHS list of jurisdictions in violation of Trump's sanctuary policy
Feels like it would have been less passive aggressive to just @ the city within the actual text of the bill.
“The Orleans Parish Sheriff, who should be trying to get out from under the handcuffs of the consent decree, [is] using that as a shield to avoid the possible implications of refusing to cooperate with ICE,” Morris told committee members.
Also, love this argument (especially as we're watching riots in L.A. and the city of Glendale canceling it's own contract with ICE) bc it essentially seems to be saying take off those old handcuffs, and put on these new much more restrictive handcuffs.
The number of police officers who are going to be willing to take this to court once they have standing can be counted on zero hands.
It's complicated. This pretty clearly targeting our "progressive" sheriff who the governor believes was installed by George Soros (I'm not joking).
The state already sued and took her to court to make her drop the city's sanctuary policy that is a result of a federal consent decree. They lost in court, so they made this new law to try and force her instead.
It's been a wild few months
Then after all that we still had the 10 inmates who escaped after being let out of her overcrowded and underfunded jail by a jail employee. This is also being blamed on "progressive policies" (Even though the reason it was overcrowded was bc the governor established a permanent police force in the city and filled the jails with people who were pulled over for things like window tint level and then arrested on unrelated charges.)
Because they are state police, they have never been bound by city rules, and they can do whatever they want. They have already been working with ICE this whole time. The governor has even released an EO that brought on 5 state agencies to already work with ICE that ranges from the National Guard to the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (I'm not joking)
Still, he couldn't just leave the city law enforcement alone, bc he couldn't stand not having full control.