Bonta Threatens to Sue Trump for Deporting Illegal Aliens—Bonta Could be Arrested for Violation of Federal Laws
Democrat AG Rob Bonta WANTS to get arrested. He is running for Governor, he needs to stand out from the Progressive/Socialist/Crazies also in the race. So, he knows Federal laws make it a crime to protect illegal aliens. He is going to use California law to over ride Federal law. Obviously either a political move or he is not a real attorney.
“On Friday, state Attorney General Rob Bonta held a briefing in San Francisco to outline guidance for police departments about how California’s sanctuary laws prohibit the use of state and city resources to assist with deportations. “If Trump breaks the law we will see him in court,” Bonta said.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democrats in the state Legislature had hoped to build a legal firewall ahead of time, with a bill allocating $50 million in additional funding for the state Department of Justice as well as legal aid to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation and detention. But the fires ravaging Los Angeles delayed that plan until sometime next week.”
No water to fight fires. No forest management to stop fires. No trained National Guard to fight fires—but Bonta and Newsom want to spend $50 million to defend law breakers from other countries here illegally. Democrats are the lawless Party.
California braces for deportations
By DUSTIN GARDINER, BLAKE JONES and NICOLE NORMAN, Politico, 1/20/25 https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2025/01/20/california-braces-for-deportations-00199230
But today fervent speculation will meet reality when Donald Trump takes the oath of office at 9 a.m. PST.
Among the potential outcomes state leaders are bracing for: mass deportations, from major cities to farm fields in the Central Valley. Strings attached to federal disaster-relief funding for the Los Angeles wildfires. Huge tariffs on imports from two of California’s biggest trade partners, Mexico and Canada. The list could go on and on.
The most immediate worry for many Democrats is protecting undocumented migrants amid Trump’s threats of mass deportations on Day One. As our D.C. colleagues reported over the weekend, Trump is today expected to sign executive orders — which have already been drafted — declaring an emergency at the southern border and ordering the start of deportations.
Trump’s emergency declaration is expected to unlock federal resources to help his administration deport immigrants and remove several key legal protections for asylum seekers.
“We will fight for those seeking asylum, because this thing here, it is entrenched on the Statue of Liberty: Bring your tired, bring your weak,” new Democratic Rep. Lateefah Simon said in Oakland over the weekend, during her community swearing-in ceremony.
On Friday, state Attorney General Rob Bonta held a briefing in San Francisco to outline guidance for police departments about how California’s sanctuary laws prohibit the use of state and city resources to assist with deportations. “If Trump breaks the law we will see him in court,” Bonta said.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democrats in the state Legislature had hoped to build a legal firewall ahead of time, with a bill allocating $50 million in additional funding for the state Department of Justice as well as legal aid to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation and detention. But the fires ravaging Los Angeles delayed that plan until sometime next week.
“I am disappointed that, of course, we did not vote on it today, because I think that that would have prepared the groundwork and resources for immigrants and immigrant resources earlier,” Democratic Assemblymember Alex Lee, chair of the Progressive Caucus, told Playbook on Friday.
The anti-Trump rhetoric coming out of California’s statehouse is notably more muted than it was eight years ago. But several Democrats in Sacramento told Playbook that they won’t hold their tongues if mass deportations materialize.
State Sen. Scott Wiener, chair of the powerful Budget Committee, has argued that the state must approve its Trump-proofing legal fund sooner than later to resist actions that could worsen the disaster in Los Angeles, including attempts to block disaster funding. He argues that arresting thousands of immigrants — a vital labor force — would undermine efforts to rebuild a city that lost more than 12,000 structures to the flames.
Democrats in major cities, from San Francisco to LA, said they were prepared to defend sanctuary laws in court, including local ordinances that prevent police and other law enforcement from working with ICE agents in most cases.
San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder announced she had introduced a resolution to reaffirm the famously-liberal city’s status as a sanctuary for migrants — a symbolic poke in the eye to Trump. Mayor Daniel Lurie has been more hesitant to criticize the president-elect; his office said he supports sanctuary laws, though it is his policy “not to comment or act on” non-binding resolutions.
Newsom, meanwhile, has navigated a difficult balancing act of preparing the state’s defenses while also making overtures to Trump — and his ego. For example, Newsom invited the incoming president to tour the damage in LA and has even ordered flags to be flown at full-staff during Trump’s inauguration, despite the recent death of former President Jimmy Carter.
Trump said yesterday that he plans to travel to LA on Friday. The two were cordial in person when Trump visited the site of California fires in 2020, though Trump publicly doubted if climate change had exacerbated the fires.
But things turned sour when he returned to Washington, and threatened to withhold disaster aid.
