Good News

The AP reports via the The Los Angeles Times that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested two illegal immigrants in a California courthouse. By doing so they intentionally violated state law.

U.S. immigration agents have arrested two people at a Northern California courthouse, including a man detained in a hallway on his way to a hearing, flouting a new state law requiring a judicial warrant to make immigration arrests inside such facilities.

ICE said in a statement that California’s law doesn’t supersede federal law and “will not govern the conduct of federal officers acting pursuant to duly enacted laws passed by Congress that provide the authority to make administrative arrests of removable aliens inside the United States.”

“Our officers will not have their hands tied by sanctuary rules when enforcing immigration laws to remove criminal aliens from our communities.

States cannot make laws which override Federal law; it is a basic tenet of our Constitution. The CA Legislature needed this wrist slap.