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If Tom Steyer really wants to help immigrants, he’ll do this

Does California really want to go to war with ICE?

The billionaire and wannabe California governor has vowed that if elected, he will treat ICE like the mob, and prosecute federal agents accordingly.

Of course, that’s nuts.

California cannot, in fact, arrest federal agents for enforcing federal law. 

And most of us know that under the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, federal law trumps state law.

All of this makes Steyer’s threats absurd, and he should drop them. 

The billionaire and other candidates for governor should end the tedious political theater –– Trump Derangement Syndrome in Three Acts –– get serious about the long list of issues afflicting California.

Immigration is primarily a federal issue, not a state charge, and pandering to lefty voters on the issue solves nothing.

Many Californians may not like the Trump administration’s crackdown on unfettered illegal immigration, but ICE agents are just doing their jobs. 

They deserve none of the threats and invective dished out by activists,........

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