Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday showed no sign of backing down in his high-profile battle with the sheriff of Travis County over her “sanctuary” policy. He aims to hit recalcitrant officials on multiple fronts.
Abbott said on “The Laura Ingraham Show” that state legislation would hit local law enforcement officials in the pocketbook and even threaten their personal freedom for refusing to comply with federal immigration law.
“It could lead to actual criminal penalties against people like this sheriff for violating their oath of office and, hopefully, put her behind bars — the bars that she has tried to release people from,” he said.
Sheriff Sally Hernandez sparked the confrontation earlier this year by announcing a new policy that limits her department’s cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
“We in law enforcement need the cooperation of our communities of color,” she told “PBS NewsHour” last week. “We need them to be running to us, and not running away from us.”
Abbott responded by cutting off $1.5 million in law enforcement grants to Travis County, which includes the state capital, Austin.
“That was just for starters,” he told LifeZette Editor-in-Chief Laura Ingraham.
A bill already has passed the state Senate that would put “real teeth” in Texas laws prohibiting sanctuary policies, Abbott said. In addition to criminal penalties, the legislation calls for fines that could total $9 million a year and includes a provision holding uncooperative law enforcement officials civilly liable for crimes committed by illegal immigrants they release from custody.
“What she’s done is absolutely reprehensible … She’s actually released back out onto the streets very dangerous criminals that federal ICE agents wanted to have detained,” he said. “This includes countless individuals who are here illegally who’ve been charged with felonies. It includes a person who’s been charged with sexual assault of a woman, a person who’s been charged with sexual assault of a minor.”
Abbott also took a shot at the NFL, which has threatened to withhold the Super Bowl and other major events from Texas if it passes a bill to regulate bathroom use by biological sex.
“The NFL needs to butt out,” he said. “If they want to get involved in politics, they need to run for office. If they don’t do that, they just need to stick to football.”
https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/texas-governor-threatens-jail-sanctuary-sheriff%E2%80%A8/
“It could lead to actual criminal penalties against people like this sheriff for violating their oath of office…”
LIKE YOU VIOLATED YOURS, TRAITOR???
Pot/kettle.
No one goes to jail over this sh#t.
NOT UNTIL WE MAKE THE ARRESTS ANYWAYS………………………………….
Or go straight to the executions.
Not like there’s a question of guilt or anything.
If you have entered the country illegally – then that is a violation of our laws – deport every single illegal and all the Muslim infidel animals – period.
1300 years of Islamic terror and over 600 million dead from their swords. Or the massive Islamic rape of over 2.5 million Hindu’s in 1971 – seems that most people are products of a Marxist/Atheist indoctrination in our public schools where they were never taught real history.
In the end – civil war and revolution and I have no doubt who wins – White European Culture and knowhow – so say the “saints and mystics”
Last I checked, it was the US and its puppet nations sending their military forces to bomb, invade, and occupy Muslim lands. The CIA also has a long and sordid history of working behind the scenes to destroy freedom and democracy in Muslim countries, replacing elected governments with brutal puppet dictatorships. Yet we mock the Muslims as the “religion of peace.” Is the “Christian” United States peaceful?
In contrast, I haven’t seen ANY Muslim military forces attempt to invade Western countries in my lifetime — only the once-in-a-blue-moon terrorist attack in (misguided) retaliation for our murderous rampages in countries where we don’t belong.
The Zionist-controlled “Christian” West has been especially aggressive since the founding of the bastard criminal state of Israel, which is ultimately where the US government gets its marching orders from.
I do agree with you about illegal immigration, but the forced “diversity” that’s being used to dilute and destroy the West has its roots in Jewish intellectual movements such as the Frankfurt School. This issue is less about Muslims per se than about simply trying to water down the white population. This is a key domestic goal of the politically-active Jewish community (along with gun control, pushing the homosexual agenda, and others).
I recommend you read as many of the works of Prof. Kevin MacDonald as possible if you want to know the truth about these matters.
I see you’re STILL falling for the jew lies, propaganda & false flags concerning Muslims. BMF nailed it. Muslim terrorists (MOST of whom are MOSSAD, posing as Muslims) have murdered HOW many Americans since 9/11? A few dozen maybe (Don’t DARE count 9/11… NO MUSLIMS WHATSOEVER WERE INVOLVED IN THAT!)? But you’re o.k. with our so-called ‘government’ MURDERING a few MILLION IRAQIS, right?
WTF, dude?????
I’d support these sheriffs 110% if they’d stand up for the Bill of Rights and REFUSE to enforce unjust, unconstitutional laws that prohibit victimless acts. But they gladly enforce those laws and refuse to enforce immigration laws instead. WTF? How twisted are these people?
Governor Abott replied. ..
Yes…
I shot the sheriff.
But I did not shoot the deputy.