‘Sloops city’ on the list of sanctuary cities listed by the Sloppiness of Homeland Security

The “sanctuary jurisdiction list” maintained by the Department of Homeland Security is more flawed than the latest “Mission Impossible” movie’s plot.

My hometown of Orange County’s performance tells you everything you need to know about its accuracy.

Just one O. A. Huntington Beach is one of the cities on the list. With an all-Republican council suing California for being a sanctuary state, the “burb” declared itself a “non-sanctuary” community in January and intends to erect a plaque outside the city’s main library that reads “MAGA.”.

Santa Ana, a city that has long been associated with undocumented immigrants, was left off the list. It was designated a sanctuary city back in 2016 and offers its citizens a deportation defense fund.

More ridiculous mistakes: Livingston, which was the first city in the Central Valley to declare itself an immigrant sanctuary in 2017, is not included in the list. However, San Diego County’s Santee is so infamous for its racism that it is still referred to as “Klantee.”.

Even Represa exists. I’ve never heard of it. It turns out to be the post office for Folsom State Prison and California State Prison, Sacramento, two locations that aren’t exactly considered sanctuaries, rather than a city.

An executive order titled “Protecting the American People Against Invasion,” which Donald Trump signed just hours after taking office, among other things, declared that sanctuary jurisdictions should no longer be eligible to receive federal funding.

But the list of jurisdictions that are allegedly subject to the penalty, which was posted on the Homeland Security website on May 29, was so faulty that it was removed in a matter of days. It hasn’t been restored yet. The attempt appeared to have been thrown together by someone who entered the word “sanctuary” and the name of a city into Google, then accepted whatever the AI produced without even bothering to verify it against Wikipedia.

This disaster is already being portrayed by Trump’s detractors as representative of an administration that enjoys shooting itself in the foot and then putting the bloody foot in its mouth. However, it’s worse than that.

The list demonstrates how the Trump administration’s rage over illegal immigration has consumed them. As long as it is made in the name of border walls and deportations, Trump is willing to overlook any error, no matter how minor. I am reminded of Cato the Elder, the politician from the Roman Republic who is renowned for allegedly declaring that “Carthage must be destroyed” at the conclusion of all of his speeches, regardless of the subject, by the president’s obsession with attributing all of this nation’s imagined and actual problems to immigrants.

Politicians’ retaliation against Homeland Security’s big, beautiful boo-boo has been swift and amusing because of this.

While holding a tiny white bust of Donald Trump in the same way a toddler holds onto its blankey, Huntington Beach Mayor Pat Burns appeared on KCAL News and said that Surf City’s inclusion was “pure negligence.”.

The city council of Vista, led by Mayor John Franklin, voted in favor of the Trump administration’s unsuccessful attempt to overturn California’s sanctuary state law in 2018. He stated to ABC 10News San Diego that he believed Vista was included on the list because “another city in the county that bears a similar name to ours … may have, and I haven’t confirmed it yet, adopted a sanctuary policy?”. “.”.

Say the city’s name, dude: Chula Vista, a much more Latino and cooler town nearer the U.S. S. Vista is closer to the Mexican border. It is not a sanctuary city, but it is on the list.

The other extreme of the political spectrum is represented by Rep. The Voice of OC was informed by Lou Correa (D-Santa Ana) that he recently counseled Santa Ana officials to “keep their head low” and not make a big deal out of their sanctuary city status, as if hiding under a desk, a la Scooby Doo, would somehow protect the city from the haphazard hammer of the Trump administration.

Trump’s immigration policy is the best example of the Silicon Valley cliche of “moving fast and breaking things.”. His government has mistakenly deported individuals and reprimanded judges who have ordered their return. Trump administration officials are shrugging their shoulders and sending immigrants to nations with which they have no connection. Immigration officers are attempting to detain individuals in locations that have long been regarded as forbidden, such as places of worship and schools.

However, Trump still finds this insufficient.

Although deportation rates are increasing, they are still far below those of Operation Wetback, the Eisenhower-era program that resulted in the deportation of over a million Mexican nationals, and not even close to the levels observed in some years of the Biden and Obama administrations. Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem, border czar Tom Homan, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who made up Trump’s deportation dream team, have criticized ICE officials for not going further in carrying out Trump’s directives.

All of this is reflected in the sanctuary list. It doesn’t matter if the wreckage involves human lives or the Constitution; what matters is the carelessness. What matters is the cruelty.

My request for an explanation of the shortcomings in Homeland Security’s sanctuary jurisdiction list and the reasons behind its removal was not answered. Rather, a representative sent out a statement via email, stating that “the list is being constantly reviewed and can be changed at any time and will be updated regularly.”. According to the statement, “a number of factors are evaluated in order to determine whether or not to include a place.”. “”.

Except, apparently, for the truth.