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SB 563, a ban on sanctuary cities, predictably advanced in a 14-10 roll call last week to Senate Finance, but not without the expected drama in the chamber. You can click here and skip to 4:56:20 for almost a whole hour of debate, but you already know the outcome.
This is from a Substack article by Chris Bray, writing about progressives who are upset that Texas is defending its border. It has my irony meter pegged at 10:
It’s easy to virtue signal highly when the cost is so low; when the rubber hits the road, however, not so much. Take sanctuary cities run by Democrats (or States or towns or whatever) who have LOUDLY proclaimed that illegal aliens are welcome.
Heh! Pinning virtue-signaling to the door with a railroad spike: MAY I REPEAT MYSELF? BUTCH IT UP, MARY: Sanctuary New York City Mayor Declares Emergency Over Migrants Taking Sanctuary In NYC. Your mouth wrote the checks. You should pay them. Lots of Democrat Big City Mayors (and Governors) have proclaimed themselves to be Sanctuary Cities where …
Democrat Mayor Lori “no white reporters” Lightfoot has done at least a few dozen illegal aliens a service. I know; she said she would welcome them to Chigaco after they were bussed there by “a man without any morals, humanity or shame,” but she then stuck them on another bus.
Atwater California, population 28,000 give or take has had enough of the BS coming out of Sacramento. They are done with Gavin Newsome’s shelter-in-place shutdown theater. They have declared themselves a sanctuary city for businesses.
I’ve been railing (wailing?) for a while about how the Left is perverting our language right out from underneath our lips. Like Transgender – a word of the Left. We should be calling it by its actual name ALL the time: gender dysphoria.
Eighteen months ago, the Feds busted up a massive drug ring operating out of Lawrence, Mass. Gov. Sununu and President Trump both named Lawrence which coughed up dozens of indictments cementing the sanctuary city as a drug hub. Well, it’s happened again.
GREAT MOMENTS IN HOLLOW GESTURES: State Senator who authored California’s ‘sanctuary state’ bill sends condolences to family of slain officer. It would have been better if California sent word that he was going to repeal that law that took the life of that policeman by the illegal alien and criminal gang member. (H/T: Instapundit, Chicago reference …
