One of the most striking things about the current debate about the enforcement of immigration laws taking place in Minnesota and other Blue states is how closely it mirrors the battles between the state and federal government over slavery, and especially over segregation.
Down to the fact that, in many cases, the federal authorities were led by a Republican president forcing a Democratic governor to obey federal law. To be fair, in the case highlighted in the headline—George Wallace mobilizing the National Guard to prevent the integration of schools in his state —it was Democrat John F. Kennedy who federalized the Guard and used federal troops to escort schoolchildren to their new schools.
Many of the arguments made by state officials are mirrored in today’s proclamations by Governor Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison, down to the claim that states have an inviolable right to regulate themselves even when in conflict with federal law. It really is remarkable, once you strip out the rhetoric, how the legal arguments are similar, and the insurrection-y behavior and rhetoric are almost alike.
Federal immigration laws are unenforceable. The FACE Act, once praised by Attorney General Keith Ellison, is now suddenly a violation of the First Amendment.
George Wallace could have said the same thing about integration as Mayor Jacob Frey says about ICE:
I’m pretty certain that integration violated the values of Wallace’s constituents.
he antics of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz have been much in the news of late, but the corporate media has studiously ignored the legal and historical context of his refusal to comply with federal immigration law. Minnesota is just one of 16 Democrat-controlled states that have enacted measures that violate the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause (Article VI, Clause 2), which provides that federal law takes precedence over conflicting laws passed by states. These Democrats are reenacting the nullification crisis that historians regard as a precursor to the Civil War.
These “sanctuary states” include California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. How precisely are they violating the Supremacy Clause? Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 of the Constitution gives Congress plenary authority over immigration. Congress has passed a variety of laws designed to control which immigrants may legally enter and reside in the U.S. Yet when ICE officials try to enforce these laws, these states interfere, falsely claiming their own immigration statutes somehow take precedence.
Immigration policy is unambiguously a matter for the federal government, and it is ridiculous for anybody to suggest that Trump is arbitrarily pursuing a policy that was not decided in multiple national elections, following laws voted for by both Democrats and Republicans, or even that he is pursuing policies that have precedents in administrations led by both parties.
The argument boils down to: we dissent, so we disobey.
State officials aren’t even standing back and just watching the lawlessness. They are actively encouraging it and participating in it.
State Senator Bobby Joe Champion encourages people to use weapons against ICE, and Governor Walz described a “war” between Minnesota and the federal government and invoked the Battle of Gettysburg. Schools are busing kids to protests and handing out whistles to interfere with ICE officers, and the entire Democratic establishment is encouraging felonies to interfere with ICE.
The State Patrol has left federal employees, not even associated with ICE to be stalked by activists, and lawmakers are coordinating efforts to impede ICE operations by announcing to activists where the activity is. Local law enforcement has been instructed to stand down when federal agents are assaulted, and they are even allowing roving bands of activists to stop individuals in the street or even to witness beatings of counterprotesters without interfering.
Sound familiar? It’s the playbook of the KKK.
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ll of this chaos has been brought about solely because state officials are protecting criminals in state custody or releasing offenders onto the streets to avoid having them be arrested by ICE. Tom Homan has made clear that if state officials cooperated by turning over arrestees to the federal government—illegal aliens subject to deportation—the surge into Minneapolis will be over.
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