{"id":163465,"date":"2025-09-01T05:24:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=163465"},"modified":"2025-09-01T05:24:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:24:39","slug":"trumps-unapologetic-defense-of-the-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=163465","title":{"rendered":"‘Trump\u2019s Unapologetic Defense of the Rule of Law’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heather Mac Donald writes<\/a>: California\u2019s cradle-to-grave welfare subsidies for illegal aliens and its widespread sanctuary policies have made the state a magnet for border-crossing migrants. That longstanding encouragement of immigration lawlessness has bred a sense of entitlement. The illegal-alien riots serve as an object lesson in Broken Windows theory: tolerate lawlessness in one sphere of activity, and you will cultivate it in another.<\/p>\n

California\u2019s Democratic officials and sanctuary activists take it as a given that ICE has no right to make immigration arrests at or around workplaces\u2014which is where the Friday enforcement actions took place. This no-workplace enforcement principle, made up out of thin air, is just a site-specific variant of a broader rule that the open-borders lobby has willed into existence: the government may not create anxiety in illegal aliens.<\/p>\n

For decades, the mainstream media has denounced any hint of enforcement in the interior of the country because the mere possibility of being picked up by ICE, however remote, was making the illegal-alien \u201ccommunity\u201d \u201cfearful.\u201d Apparently, there is not just an entitlement not to be deported once you cross the border illegally but also an entitlement to be free from any concern that you might be deported. Since, therefore, ICE\u2019s enforcement efforts were illegitimate\u2014notwithstanding that agents acted pursuant to judicial warrants\u2014radical resistance to those efforts was necessary.<\/p>\n

California is also ground zero for the toleration of crime and disorder. Vagrants rule the streets in many parts of Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, and other cities. Three of the country\u2019s most influential pro-decriminalization, anti-incarceration district attorneys\u2014Chesa Boudin in San Francisco, George Gasc\u00f3n in Los Angeles, and Pamela Price in Oakland\u2014presided in California until recent electoral defeats. Southern California is the home of street takeovers\u2014whereby large groups commandeer major intersections to race cars, often followed by looting of nearby convenience stores. The use of SUVs to ram into luxury stores and bodegas alike in order to clear out the merchandise seemed to originate in California after the George Floyd race riots, as did follow-home robberies, whereby thieves spot Rolex and other fine jewelry-wearers at restaurants and follow them home to assault them.<\/p>\n

So when Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass says, as she did on MSNBC on Tuesday morning, \u201cI\u2019m going to do everything I can to keep Angelenos safe, no matter how they came here,\u201d when California governor Gavin Newsom says in a fundraising appeal on Tuesday morning: \u201cKeeping Californians safe has always been our number one priority,\u201d many Californians will chortle bitterly. Of course, to be fair to Bass, her solicitude was directed to the city\u2019s large illegal-alien population, not to its law-abiding citizens, in the same way that Bass and her fellow government officials direct their primary concern to the state\u2019s homeless population and criminals, not to taxpaying, hardworking residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heather Mac Donald writes: California\u2019s cradle-to-grave welfare subsidies for illegal aliens and its widespread sanctuary policies have made the state a magnet for border-crossing migrants. That longstanding encouragement of immigration lawlessness has bred a sense of entitlement. The illegal-alien riots … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163466,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163465\/revisions\/163466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}