XPost: misc.immigration.usa, alt.los-angeles, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   XPost: sac.politics, talk.politics.guns   
   From: yourdime@outlook.com   
      
   Time to give 'the resistance' what they want   
      
   The Democrats’ “resistance” to the incoming Trump administration and   
   Republican-led Congress is quickly taking shape.   
      
   The usual left-wing media smear machine is in full gear, taking aim at   
   several of Mr. Trump’s nominees.   
      
   But the most interesting action is in California, where Democratic Gov.   
   Gavin Newsom, the state’s would-be savior, is acting as if a foreign power   
   will soon occupy America.   
      
   A couple of weeks ago, he called a special session to ask the Democratic-   
   dominated Legislature for $25 million to create a fund for lawsuits   
   against Mr. Trump’s initiatives. Mr. Newsom has also met with other top   
   Democrats to discuss ways to sabotage the Trump agenda any way they can.   
      
   For instance, the photogenic governor has made it clear that he will   
   continue California’s refusal to work with federal officials on stemming   
   illegal immigration.   
      
   The Golden State is one of hundreds of “sanctuary” jurisdictions that defy   
   federal law and will not cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs   
   Enforcement.   
      
   Since February 2021, drawn by the Biden-Harris administration’s open   
   border and welfare incentives, more than 10 million immigrants have   
   entered the United States illegally. Each year, hundreds of them, betrayed   
   by smugglers, die near the border. A shocking number of women and children   
   are raped.   
      
   The whole thing is a human rights disaster on many levels, but   
   progressives who see the immigrants as a potential future voting bloc   
   don’t seem to care.   
      
   Advertisement   
   Democratic mayors in cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia   
   have pledged to keep their sanctuary status, come what may.   
      
   Let’s take them at their word. All illegal immigrants, beginning with the   
   over 600,000 confirmed criminals that the Biden-Harris administration   
   deliberately allowed to come into the United States, should be shipped to   
   sanctuary states and cities.   
      
   Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis paved the way for   
   this in 2022 by busing and flying illegals into Democratic cities   
   including New York and Chicago. This woke up a lot of people — even   
   liberals — to the insanity of open borders.   
      
   New York now has an estimated 250,000 illegals, some of whom are being   
   housed at great expense in hotels. In March, the city began handing out   
   prepaid debit cards.   
      
   Mayor Eric Adams, who had defended the handouts, says he has had it. He   
   met with incoming border czar Tom Homan on Thursday to discuss how to work   
   together on the problem.   
      
   Advertisement   
   Mr. Trump can do the same thing that Mr. Abbott and Mr. DeSantis did on a   
   national scale, using federal resources instead of state funds.   
      
   How much would you bet that residents of these states and cities would   
   soon adopt the approach taken by Martha’s Vineyard? In September 2022, the   
   Democrats’ wealthy Massachusetts island, home to the Obamas and Oprah   
   Winfrey, quickly evicted a crowd of 49 illegal aliens that Mr. DeSantis   
   had flown in.   
      
   But this was only after residents got photo-ops showing them hugging the   
   newcomers to demonstrate diversity and inclusivity before kicking them   
   out.   
      
   It was a teachable moment for the nation about progressive hypocrisy, and   
   it helped build momentum for the Republican sweep on Nov. 5.   
      
   Advertisement   
   Another way the Trump administration could bring a dose of reality to   
   Democrats is to halt federal subsidies for wind and solar power and   
   electric vehicles, and to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s   
   emissions rules.   
      
   California has led the way in attacking reliable fossil fuel energy and is   
   experiencing brownouts. The average price of a gallon of gasoline in   
   California as of Dec. 12 was $4.30, with some stations charging as much as   
   $5.65, according to AAA. The national average is about $3.   
      
   Despite trillions of cubic feet of natural gas in the ground, California   
   imports nearly 90% of its natural gas. Likewise, the state, which has oil   
   reserves estimated at 30 billion barrels, once produced 60% of the oil it   
   used. But environmentalists have driven this figure down to 23%.   
      
   Instead, the state depends on imports from “such paragons of human rights   
   and environmental stewardship as Ecuador, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Iraq,”   
   Edward Ring of the California Policy Center wrote recently in The Wall   
   Street Journal.   
      
   Advertisement   
   Mr. Ring also noted that Mr. Newsom is pushing a California Air Resources   
   Board plan to install 2,500 wind turbines, “each about 1,000 feet tall   
   from the waterline to the tip of the blade, to points 20 miles offshore.   
   There, they will be connected to the sea floor with cables nearly a mile   
   long.”   
      
   The electricity will be shipped to shore via high-voltage underwater   
   cables. What could go wrong? This makes about as much sense as Mr.   
   Newsom’s other pet project, the billions-over-cost “bullet train” from Los   
   Angeles to San Francisco.   
      
   Next, they’ll be building a subway using the San Andreas Fault as a site   
   map.   
      
   While all this is happening, California has not backed off its dictate to   
   force trucking companies to buy incredibly expensive and impractical   
   electric 18-wheel rigs. This is sheer madness.   
      
   Advertisement   
   The answer to Mr. Newsom’s and other Democrats’ policies of “resistance”   
   is to force them to live with their bad choices.   
      
   That means securing the border while letting “sanctuary” jurisdictions   
   have the millions of illegal aliens that their party enabled — with no   
   federal funding assistance.   
      
   Los Angeles County has about 1 million illegal immigrants among its nearly   
   10 million people. It’s only fair to give them more of what they say they   
   want.   
      
   • Robert Knight is a columnist for The Washington Times. His website is   
   roberthknight.com.   
      
   https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/15/let-sanctuary-cities-   
   keep-millions-illegal-aliens-/   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)