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Anti-ICE signs are literal virtue signals — and nothing more

LA Mayor Karen Bass is blowing a quarter-million bucks on anti-ICE “keep out” signs with no legal power.

These signs are just “virtue signaling,” according to critics, and won’t stop federal immigration enforcement.

Mayor Bass faces a tough re-election, using the ICE issue to appeal to “progressive” voters despite city woes.

LA Mayor Karen Bass is wasting a quarter of a milllon dollars on anti-ICE “keep out” signs that have no legal force. Their only effect is to send a political message about her anti-ICE views in an election.

In other words, the signs are just virtue signaling — literally.

Immigration is a federal issue. Democrats forget that, when they declare cities or states to be “sanctuary” jurisdictions.

But it was the Obama administration that confirmed that the federal government has sole control of border and immigration enforcement. Obama’s Department of Justice, under “wingman” Eric Holder, sued Arizona, which had passed a law allowing police to check the immigration status of people they stopped for other suspected violations.

Arizona lost in the Supreme Court in 2012. And the Court has upheld federal power — adding that the president has almost total control of immigration policy.

That doesn’t........

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