10 thoughts on “Reckless Endangerment — Travis County Sheriff’s Office v ICE”

1. I often hear that the more immigrants were deported during the Obama years. If this is true, what was the basis for selecting who would be deported. Surely criminals should have been on that list. So my question is: were detainers used by ICE during the Obama years? Are we just now choosing to ignore laws because of Trump or were these laws ignored then as well?

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     During the Obama admin, they began to cook the books. They would count as “deportees” those who were stopped at the border and pushed back. In the Bush admin, these illegal aliens were not counted as deportees because they hadn’t actually entered the US.

     The Obama administration did this for the reason you have identified — the numbers.

     The Obama admin allowed a great number of criminals to remain in the country by scheduling hearings and then releasing them to return to court when their hearing date came up.

     Guess what? Someone who breaks into the country — thereby breaking the law — NOT show up for a scheduled court appearance. Surprised?

     There is no question that the election of Pres Trump has exacerbated the entire “sanctuary city” lawlessness.

     Sheriff Hernandez’s predecessor, Sheriff Greg Hamilton (former QB at Texas State), honored all ICE detainer requests.

     Why would a sworn peace officer, a member of law enforcement, not honor a detainer request on a criminal? Why?

     This is simply lawless behavior on the part of Sheriff Hernandez and Cty Atty Escamilla. It is lawless.

     BRC
     https://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

   • Have seen that question before……..never have seen an answer, though.

2. Obama set a horrible precedent for selective enforcement of law that encouraged this kind of reckless behavior. Trump should turn the tide back towards a rule of law.

   • > Obama set a horrible precedent

     And apparently a LOT of people liked it, lined up behind it, got used to it, accepted it, and have been depending on it. So, yup, have to turn this stuff around. Maybe it’s like some highway used for commuting where people were all used to driving 80 MPH but now need to get back to the posted 65 or plus 10 for 75. So, have some police out there stopping people, and the word will get out. Or have some police driving the route at 65 to remind people. Now that we have “extreme vetting” to keep the dirt bags out and are rapidly pushing out the dirt bags already here, the word will get out and people will realize that the law is being enforced, won’t seriously object to that, and will calm down. But just for now, could get marches of thousands of people basically claiming that we should have massive violations of our laws long on the books.

     • Yeah, a horrible precedent alright. Bigger than that, is the fact that housing illegals at the expense of American citizens is now a core value of the democrats. One would think that our country is running a surplus or something given their generosity. It’s sad to see a CA style sheriff bringing her game to TX. For her to have even been elected makes me wonder if TX will turn blue next election cycle.

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         Yeah, a horrible precedent alright. Bigger than that, is the fact that housing illegals at the expense of American citizens is now a core value of the democrats.

         Yes, the Dem strategy, apparently all the way back at least to some Ted Kennedy work, has been, to win elections, import dependent voters.

         Recently at

         http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/22/ann-coulter-now-hit-full-crazy/

         Ann Coulter wrote on immigration with in part

         I can’t help but notice that the Third Worlders aren’t moving to liberals’ neighborhoods.

         and this adds to your comment I quoted.

         Also there, Coulter wrote in part

         After nearly 1 million Rwandans were murdered by other Rwandans in 1994, our government asked itself: Why not bring more of this fascinating Rwandan culture to America? Ten thousand of them poured in. So far, nearly 400 have been convicted in the United States of lying on visa applications about their role in the genocide.

         and here she puts more strikingly and better some of what I tried to say in my post in this thread at

         https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/reckless-endangerment-travis-county-sheriffs-office/#comment-3217355899

         Gee “… this fascinating Rwandan culture ….”.

         So, as I did, she mentions “culture”.

         The dominant culture of the US is European — Eastern, Central, and Western — from Scotland, Ireland, England, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Scandinavia, likely the Baltics, Russia with more from the Balkans, and Greece.

         So, right, I grew up in Memphis, and they were still fighting the Civil War. I had a good career going in and near DC in applied math and computing and then went back to Memphis to join FedEx — Memphis was still fighting the Civil War. As I understand it there now, all the housing for the Whites is in organized legal entities designed to keep out the Blacks — so they are still fighting the Civil War.

         Mom was from Columbus, OH, and Dad, a little south of Buffalo, NY, and they wanted nothing to do with that war stuff. Neither did I, and I got out of there ASAP.

         Well, the Civil Rights Movement raised awareness of the plight of the Blacks in the US South and generated sympathy and efforts to correct the situation.

         But apparently since then there has been some deliberately exploitive extrapolation to create a moral norm:

         If any person with black or brown skin suffers, then the people with white skin are to blame. Moreover, the culture of the Whites is too narrow, and all the other cultures should be included.

         Maybe some Democrats understand just why the Whites of the US and Europe are to blame for the suffering of the cultures of Zaire, Uganda, Borneo, etc., but I don’t.

         So, with this moral norm, the Democrats see a way to a majority at the ballot box. A lot of those Democrats just want power for their own traditional selfish reasons and are, with this moral norm, willing to stick it to the rest of White culture and, in particular, US society to achieve their selfish ends. The EU leaders have taken this moral norm hook, line, and sinker.

         After eight years of Obama, there is a lot of entrenched interest in the extrapolations of this moral norm and associated political correctness.

         Since 9/11 and Bush 43, we have been pressured by political correctness to accept that Islam is a “peaceful religion”: Well, in fact, to a large extent, it is not just a religion and not at all peaceful. More accurately, Islam is a closed, medieval, totalitarian culture that is devoted to taking over the rest of the world and killing off all the infidels, that is, everyone else. That is exactly the situation in ISIS, Iran, Afghanistan, and no doubt more.

         But, with the moral norm and political correctness, we are pushed to regard Islam as a peaceful religion and admit Muslims to the US and treat them as peaceful and willing to assimilate until proven otherwise. Well, by now for far too many Muslims even just for our basic safety we are awash in solid proof otherwise.

         And, yes, we are asleep: Far too many Muslims would ASAP deploy a WMD in a major US city. Of course, there was a good presentation on the danger by Newt Gingrich at the last Republican National Convention with an introduction by Callista Gingrich at

         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BV8vGzmsos

         Alas, there Newt repeats that claim that the “vast majority” of Muslims are peaceful. But essentially all the Muslim leadership of Isis, Iran, Afghanistan and more are devoted to “Death to America”.

         With political correctness and the moral norm, we are devoted to a suicide pact with the violent parts of Islam. E.g., we are leaving ourselves nearly wide open to multiple WMD attacks.

         Not nearly new is the idea that US immigration should be based on merit. For the sake of the US and its citizens, we should stay with that idea. And the US has no obligation to ignore that a Muslim is a follower of Islam and, thus, with much higher probability than otherwise, devoted to death to America — no joke, not a joke at all, no exaggeration, not at all.

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     The selective enforcement had more than one negative impact. Not only did it allow a great number of illegal immigrants — low skill, low wage expectation workers, if they worked at all — into the country, but it also diminished the general respect for the rule of law as if one only had to adhere to those laws which were found palatable.

     I am convinced that much of what ails our country today is the result of the debate focused around — “Hey, is this a law we “want” to obey or should be just blow this one off?”

     This shows up in a seemingly unrelated area such as the safeguarding of classified material which is apparently completely voluntary where once upon a time one went to jail solely based o the reality of the situation without regard to one’s motivations.

     BRC
     https://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

3. I have to suspect that 60+% the voters of the city of Austin could get their Sheriff back on track in a fraction of the time interval of a milli-micro-nano-pico second — if and only if they wanted to. Since that time interval is now up, I have to suspect that 60% of the voters are willing to tolerate what the Sheriff is doing.

   Why? Some people like the open borders immigration policy.

   Why? The old explanation was that the Democrats wanted the immigrants here to vote but not work, and the Republicans wanted them here to work but not vote. Then people who want the open borders policy will try to get others to go along for whatever reasons, with whatever techniques, seem to work. E.g., might say that the immigrants are suffering and that they are, actually, good people, could have better lives in the US, and that, thus, the US should let/help them come and stay here — people are free to say such things.

   Yes, I know that the flood of migrants from south of the US border are from open sewer countries. Why the open sewers? Since a lot of those countries are awash in useful and valuable natural resources, there must be some other reason. Another reason? I’m reminded of the story that Napoleon took a look at Spain and decided that it wasn’t worth invading. So, maybe somehow the problem south of the border is something about Spanish culture.

   I confess: I have some familiarity with English, German, French, and Italian culture, e.g., food, music, science, math, engineering, but somehow know next to nothing about Spanish (Balkan, Turkish, Arabian, African, South Asian, Indian, Pakistani, Asian) culture.
   Yes, mostly the Islamic immigrants now flooding into the EU are also from open sewer countries.

   There is an old remark: “You can take the man out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the man.” Applying that remark in this case, if the US imports a lot of people from open sewer countries, then the US will move closer to being an open sewer.

   Yes, yes, I know: Since the Pilgrims, a lot of people have come to the US and done well, e.g., created the one of the best countries in the world. But the countries nearly all those immigrants came from — England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, Poland, Russia — are not open sewers now and apparently comparatively were not open sewers then. In comparison, south of the US border and in the Islamic countries are open sewers now and no doubt comparatively were also open sewers then.

   There’s another argument: Notice that knowing the English language reasonably well involves knowing ballpark 80,000 words. So, how many words learned per day is that by, say, age 20? And may I have the arithmetic, please?

   80,000 / ( 20 * 365 ) = 11

   So, 11 words a day. Lesson: There was a LOT of work to learn the English language.

   There is another point: There is a lot more lessons to (1) learning the values and norms of a family, (2) becoming socialized and socially acceptable in a community, and (3) becoming a good citizen in a country than just those 80,000 words in the English language. E.g., some of the lessons are (A) using force on a female is a very serious transgression; (B) harassing a female is forbidden and quickly becomes very serious if continued; (C) do not attack others with knives, guns, or other weapons; (D) do not steal; (E) do not settle disputes with violence; (F) have high respect for learning, hard work, and accomplishment; (G) the US democracy is important; (H) being a citizen of the US is a great privilege; (J) patriotism is very important. No one from an open sewer country who does not know (1)-(3) for good US families or (A)-(J) for good US citizens can learn these lessons just from an hour of wet feet from the Rio Grande River or landing at JFK Airport. If a lot of those people in open sewer countries were super bright and really good at (1)-(3) and (A)-(J), then their countries would not be open sewers and they would not be coming here.

   Lesson: Bring in a lot of people from open sewer countries, and the US will become closer to the open sewers those people came from.

   The citizens of Austin, San Francisco, NYC, etc. need to be good US citizens, wake up, pay attention, get informed, and stop the open borders nonsense.

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   The Travis County Sheriff, Sally Hernandez (D), is recklessly endangering the safety of citizens by her failure to cooperate with ICE in the detainment of illegal criminals.

   https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/reckless-endangerment-travis-county-sheriffs-office/

   Read this.

   BRC
   https://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

   #sallyhernandez #tcso #davidescamilla #countyattorneytravis #traviscountytexas #ice #detainer

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