{"id":16393,"date":"2020-03-09T06:19:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T13:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=16393"},"modified":"2020-03-09T06:19:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T13:19:41","slug":"all-the-cops-are-criminals-all-the-sinners-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/03\/09\/all-the-cops-are-criminals-all-the-sinners-saints\/","title":{"rendered":"All The Cops Are Criminals, All The Sinners Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For some time now the value of citizenship, and the pride that goes therewith, has been increasingly diminished, with the push for <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2018\/08\/01\/what-does-citizenship-mean-when-non-citizens-can-outvote-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">non<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/10\/16\/california-and-the-euthanization-of-citizenship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">citizen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/06\/04\/when-citizenship-looses-meaning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voting<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/01\/14\/california-lawyers-citizenship-we-dont-need-no-stinkin-citizenship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">non-citizen lawyers<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/04\/30\/whither-citizenship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">non-citizen juries<\/a>. But eliminating the difference between citizens and non-citizens isn\u2019t the goal; elevating non-citizens above citizens <em>is<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2223\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/us-flag-occupy-walk-on-flag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For example, the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, will <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bostonherald\/status\/1230293326252912640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not arrest illegal immigrants<\/a> who drive without a license, while continuing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2020\/02\/19\/illegal-immigrants-in-cambridge-wont-be-arrested-for-unlicensed-driving\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">punish <em>both<\/em> citizens and legal immigrants<\/a> for doing the same.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Illegal immigrants in Cambridge won\u2019t be arrested for unlicensed driving <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vhm5Wr3YSg\">https:\/\/t.co\/vhm5Wr3YSg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Boston Herald (@bostonherald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bostonherald\/status\/1230293326252912640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In San Fransiso, the new <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Vxnrg#selection-397.0-503.419\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">red-diaper DA<\/a>, Chesa Boudin, is setting up a task force to \u201c<em>prevent illegal aliens from being prosecuted or deported<\/em><em>\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>And the targets of opposition includes <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/o\/Vxnrg\/https:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/articles\/the-progressive-prosecutor-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Fransisco\u2019s own police force<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA newly minted district attorney for a major American city vows to establish an immigration unit. At first blush, that would seem entirely normal for a prosecutor\u2019s office. Immigration laws require enforcement, and prosecutors are in the law-enforcement business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBut no\u2014the new San Francisco DA actually has in mind an immigration defense unit. He wants to assign a staff of prosecutors to protect undocumented aliens\u2014those who are either illegal and thus deportable to begin with, or for whom a criminal conviction could result in loss of lawful status and thus eventual deportation. The unit\u2019s enforcement target would be not the law violators but the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who enforce federal laws, along with any local police and corrections officials who have the temerity to assist ICE in that endeavor. The prosecutors\u2019 mission, in the words of their new boss, would be to \u201cstand up to Trump on immigration\u201d\u2014the president having made signature issues of border security and the stepped-up deportation of aliens who flout the laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All Boudin and others of his ilk ask for is a little <em>sympathy<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"All The Cops Are Criminals, All The Sinners Saints\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"For some time now the value of citizenship, and the pride that goes therewith, has been increasingly diminished, with the push for non-citizen voting, non-citizen lawyers, and non-citizen juries.  But eliminating the difference between citizens and non-citizens isn\u2019t the goal; elevating non-citizens above citizens is.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/us-flag-occupy-walk-on-flag.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For some time now the value of citizenship, and the pride that goes therewith, has been increasingly diminished, with the push for non&#8211;citizen voting, non-citizen lawyers, and non-citizen juries. But eliminating the difference between citizens and non-citizens isn\u2019t the goal; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/03\/09\/all-the-cops-are-criminals-all-the-sinners-saints\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[19,15,62,48],"class_list":["post-16393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-democrats","tag-patriotism","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16394,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16393\/revisions\/16394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}