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You Don’t Have to Help. You Do Have to Police.

I spent 24 years in Enforcement and Removal Operations. Every officer who has worked in an arrest team knows the moment. The target is in custody, the vehicle is staged, and the perimeter closes. Forty people are on a residential street who did not exist ninety seconds ago. Someone is filming 6 inches off an officer’s face. Someone is behind the vehicle. Someone is screaming at a handcuffed man to run.

One question matters, and it is not a federal question.

It is whether a local patrol unit is coming to keep that street passable. In a lot of American cities, the answer is no, and the officials responsible want you to believe they had no choice. They are counting on you not reading the policy they are hiding behind.

So, let me give them the part they are right about. No state has to help enforce federal immigration law.

The Supreme Court settled that in Printz v. United States. Washington cannot order a state or local cop to do a federal job.

Murphy v. NCAA said it again in 2018. A state can refuse detainers. It can refuse to tell us when somebody is walking out of the county jail. It can order its officers to stay away from a civil immigration arrest entirely. I think those are bad calls. They are also legal, and anybody telling you sanctuary policies are against the law is selling you something.

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Here is what that rule does not cover. It does not get a state out of enforcing its own criminal law on its own streets. And here is the part that gets skipped.

A department that stands there while a crowd swallows a federal operation is not following its sanctuary policy. It is going past it. There is no directive in this country that tells a cop to watch a felony and do nothing.

Because that is what we are talking about. When a crowd blocks a vehicle, that is a state crime. When somebody puts hands on a federal officer, that is state assault, on top of the federal charge under 18 U.S.C. 111. A blocked street is obstruction in all fifty states.

None of that is an immigration offense. None of it requires a local officer to ask one person about their........

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