Thursday, April 20, 2018 12:00 PM PDT
Placer County Republican Central Committee
(PCRCC)
Dennis C. Revell
Chair, PCRCC
(916) 443-3816 (office)
(916) 952-5351 (cell)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Placer County Republican Party Asks Board of Supervisors to “Keep our neighborhoods safe and tell the State that they will direct the Sheriff to comply with federal law”
Republican County Chair cites hypocrisy of proponents of “Sanctuary State” status and requests Supervisors to hold a public hearing on May 8, 2018.
In a fairly detailed and carefully crafted letter sent last week to all members of the Placer County Board of Supervisors, the County Administrator, and County Counsel, the Placer County Republican Party requested that the Board schedule a public hearing on
Tuesday, May 8, 2018 to discuss California’s “Sanctuary State” law and whether the Board would authorize and direct the Placer County Sheriff’s Office to fully and timely comply with federal law regarding the timely sharing of information with federal law enforcement agencies of the “undocumented criminal aliens” in its custody.
(Click here for a copy of the letter and resolution emailed to Placer County by the Placer County GOP.)After the California Legislature and Governor Jerry Brown moved last October to prevent state and local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration officials, Governor Brown and his appointed Attorney General, Xavier Becerra, were met with a swift response from U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who sued them and the state, alleging that three of the state’s laws (including SB 54) overstepped their rights as a state and violated the U.S. Constitution supremacy clause.
In March, the small city of Los Alamitos in Southern California was the first to announce they would put their commitment to federal law over these recent state mandates, drafting an ordinance that would allow them to opt out of the state-level sanctuary law. Since that first bold move, a rapidly growing list of California cities and counties have followed suit with similar ordinances, resolutions and, in some instances, authorizations to file amicus briefs in support of the U.S. DOJ litigation. Among those jurisdictions are; the Cities of Aliso Viejo, Anderson, Barstow, Beaumont, Dana Point, Escondido, Fountain Valley, Hesperia, Huntington Beach, Los Alamitos, Mission Viejo, Newport Beach, Orange, San Juan Capistrano, Westminster, Yorba Linda, and the Counties of Kern, Orange, San Diego, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama.
The letter requesting the public hearing by Placer County Republican Chair Dennis C. Revell, followed on the heels of a slew of Placer County residents appearing before the Board at its March 20, 2018 meeting during Public Comment and requesting that the Board consider adoption of a resolution declaring Placer County a “Non Sanctuary” jurisdiction; and again on Tuesday, April 10, 2018 when Placer County Supervisor Kirk Uhler brought forth an agenda item for the County to take a position on the matter and his attempt to agendize a motion related to “Sanctuary State” failed for lack of a second.
SB 54, which was authored by Senator Kevin deLeón (D-Los Angeles), put restrictions on law enforcement’s ability to communicate concerns with federal law enforcement authorities about certain undocumented offenders in their custody. Among its many restrictions, SB 54 stated that local law enforcement agencies shall not do any of the following:
- Inquire into an individual’s immigration status
- Detain an individual on the basis of a hold request
- Provide information regarding a person’s release date
- Provide personal information about an individual (home or work address, etc)
- Assist immigration authorities, in specific activities allowed under federal immigration law
- Transfer an individual to immigration authorities unless authorized by a judicial warrant
Advocating for his legislation, Senator deLeón stated that SB 54 would “…keep them (local law enforcement agencies) focused on community policing, rather than rounding up hardworking, honest immigrants who in many instances assist police in solving crimes rather than committing them.”
Placer County Republican Party’s letter pointed out the sheer hypocrisy of the Democrats’ legislative effort given their willingness to have the state corrections department provide the federal government with the same information that they are restricting local law enforcement from doing while the individual is in their custody. The State gladly gives the federal government that information long after it releases these individuals onto the streets of your neighborhood in order to secure federal reimbursement from the U.S. Department of Justice under the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (“SCAAP”). Under SCAAP, the Office of Justice Programs (“OJP”) of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) makes payments to eligible “states” and “units of local government” that incur certain types of costs due to the “incarceration” of “undocumented criminal aliens”.
The “FY 2016 Program” made nearly $16.9 million in SCAAP awards to fifty California counties with the State of California receiving an additional $50.6 million. California’s combined total represents roughly 37% of the $189 million that was made available to all states and local governments across the country. “In the first nine years of the SCAAP Program (FY 1997 through FY 2005, inclusive), the State of California received over $1.7 billion from the federal government to cover less than 28% of the State’s cost of incarcerating ‘undocumented criminal aliens’ in this state,” stated Revell.
In order to receive a SCAAP reimbursement from the U.S. DOJ, the State of California and local governments have to certify that the individuals for whom they are seeking reimbursement are in fact, “Undocumented” [ i.e, (1) entered the US without authorization under federal law to do so, (2) entered the state under a federal legal authorization that had expired, or (3) was the subject of a deportation proceeding] and is a “Criminal Alien” (i.e., he/she has been convicted of at least one felony or two misdemeanors). According to Revell, for the fifty California counties that sought reimbursement in 2016, they certified that they had a total “undocumented criminal alien” population of 23,610 inmates who were incarcerated in their counties jails. For the State of California, the state certified that in 2016 it had a total “undocumented criminal alien” population of 18,589 inmates incarcerated in its prison system. “It is reasonable to assume, given other early release legislation passed by the Democrat controlled State Legislature,” commented Revell, “that the vast majority of those 23,610 ‘undocumented criminal alien’ inmates in the county jails were released early back onto the streets in 2016 rather than being deported.”
“Regardless of one’s views of legal or illegal immigration, this is really about our law enforcement agencies being able to effectively fight criminals and coordinate with other agencies that do the same in order to keep our neighborhoods safe!” concluded Revell.
To understand the magnitude of the problem law enforcement is facing in some parts of this state, Revell cited published reports that state:
- In Los Angeles 95% of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total approximately 1,200 – 1,500) target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (approximately 17,000) are for illegal aliens.
- A confidential California Department of Justice study reported in 1995 – 60% of the 20,000-strong 18th Street Gang in Southern California is illegal; but police officers say the proportion is actually much greater. This bloody gang collaborates with the Mexican Mafia, the dominant force in California prisons, on complex drug-distribution schemes, extortion, drive-by assassinations, and commits an assault or robbery every day in LA County. The gang has grown dramatically over the last two decades by recruiting recently arrived youngsters, most of them illegal, from Central America and Mexico. It is now one of the largest transnational gangs in Los Angeles with 20,000 to 30,000 members in 20 states across the U.S. alone.
- Over 90% of alleged MS-13 gang members arrested in recent Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation were illegal aliens. The operation, which ended in November 2016, had ICE arresting or assisting in apprehending 214 alleged MS-13 members across the U.S. Almost all of the gang members apprehended in the U.S. were illegal aliens according to ICE. Of those arrested, 198 were foreign nationals, including 193 illegal aliens. Only 16 were U.S. citizens. The U.S. DOJ’s National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) estimate that 80% of U.S. crime is committed by gangs, including murder, rape, kidnapping, violent assaults, torture, robbery and identity theft.
Placer County residents who want the Board of Supervisors to hold a public hearing on this issue are urged to email the Board at
bos@placer.ca.gov or call the Clerk of the Board’s office at (530) 889-4020.
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