Representative Steve King (R-IA4) lets the Democrats have it with the full, unvarnished, brutal truth:
The Left has been exploiting a loophole in a 1996 law that abolished sanctuary cities, States and more, and, as a result, has blood on its hands in the killing of thirty-two-year-old Kate Steinle in San Francisco last week, Representative Steve King tells Newsmax TV.
Mexican national Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, forty-five, has been charged with Steinle's shooting death. He has seven felony convictions and was deported to Mexico five times. He said he chose San Francisco because of its status as a sanctuary city.
"Sanctuary cities exist because of the left, because of the open border policy," King told Newsmax Prime on Wednesday. "Yes, there is blood on their hands and San Francisco is at fault. All of California is a sanctuary State today, and many States have these jurisdictions like this."
True, every word of it. Indeed, the wonder is that it took this long for such a high-profile slaying to take place. But it was inevitable. You simply cannot erase the southern border, invite all of Latin America to come here, have the Obama Regime distribute them, disease, pestilence, and criminality and all, throughout the country, and not have murder and mayhem perpetrated upon the receiving population. Which Article IV, Section 4 of the United States Constitution specifically requires the federal government to prevent.
Does this mean, as Donald Trump overgeneralized, that every illegal alien is a criminal beyond their flouting of U.S. immigration law? Not at all. But the chaff, as it were, provide immense cover for the diseased, pustulated, criminal wheat, to say nothing of "OTMs" (Other Than Mexicans) such as those of "Middle East Origin". And many innocent Americans, including now Kate Steinle, have paid the ultimate price for the Left's extremist multiculti fetish.
Rush Limbaugh, who is inexplicably much higher on Donald Trump than I will ever be as I discussed two days ago, is right about one thing: Trump has changed, or at least elevated, the illegal immigration debate by being free as a non-serious candidate to say mostly the right things in an excessively blunt way. And his timing turned out to be very good with the Steinle murder coming right on the heels of his "controversial" immigration comments, almost as if to prove his basic, self-obfuscated point.
How much has the immigration pendulum swung amongst the GOP "elites"? Take the face of 2013 "comprehensive immigration reform" himself:
Liberal local officials in San Francisco refused to comply with federal law and turn a convicted felon over, Senator Marco Rubio said Thursday, and he finds that "unacceptable."
"The Department of Homeland Security repeatedly requested the city to turn him over," the Florida Republican told Fox News' America's Newsroom program. "They refused to do so. What is more unacceptable, this person had been deported, and each time found his way back into the country, to San Francisco because he knew it was a city and jurisdiction that would not turn him over to federal authorities."...
[T]he situation shows how the system is "completely out of control," said Rubio, who is seeking the 2016 GOP presidential nomination.
Or, would you believe.....Jeb Bush:
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush says the federal government should deny aid to cities that harbor [alien]s who are in the country illegally.
Speaking to a campaign event in New Hampshire, Bush said Wednesday that his support for allowing people in the country illegally to stay in the U.S. does not suggest leniency toward those who have committed crimes.
Of course it does. The Steinle murder has simply put him on the defensive on the immigration issue and forced him into a rhetorical retreat.
Bush said: "We ought to eliminate sanctuary cities." And he noted ways he would root out [alien]s who have committed crimes. He said cities like San Francisco should not get federal law enforcement money until they change their policies.
I'll guarantee you Jeb doesn't believe a word he's saying. And in the absence of Trump's "controversial" comments and "Dirty" Sanchez's heinous actions, he wouldn't be saying it. But he is, because he knows, as we discussed on Tuesday, that two-thirds of the American public remain stubbornly and adamantly opposed to illegal immigration and any policy that aides, abets, encourages, and facilitates it.
You could call it the Left getting a taste of its bitter "crisis exploitation" medicine.
And while the border erasure crowd is beating an at least temporary retreat, border control proponents are going on the offensive:
The killing of Kathryn Steinle at the hands of a Mexican criminal who had been repeatedly deported has prompted Republicans to call for the repeal of sanctuary laws which limit cooperation between local and federal authorities in pursing immigration cases, according to the Hill.
Critics of sanctuary laws insist that they encourage criminal activity by creating regional areas where illegal [alien]s can find safe haven.
Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton introduced legislation to withhold certain federal grants from sanctuary cities after a similar idea had been approved by the House Judiciary Committee in March, the Hill reported.
Let the Democrats keep burying themselves in their cruel, callous denial of the blood-soaked results of their open borders mania. Indeed, let them explain it chapter and verse to the Steinle family and see what kind of reaction they get. Hell, let them accept illegals like "Dirty" Sanchez into their own gated, cloistered, hoity-toity communities and neighborhoods. Never will NIMBYism spike faster, in inverse proportion to their deserved political fortunes for putting the whims of foreign murderers above the lives of actual American citizens.
You've been given the mother of all wedge issues, Republicans. Don't waste it.
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