A Long List of Undesirables; Elected, Blind, and Otherwise
By Andy Caldwell
Do you remember in the 1977 film “Star Wars” when Obi-Wan Kenobi described the infamous saloon as a “wretched hive of scum and villainy?”
Is that not an apt description of the former convicts arrested at the Glass House pot farms in Carpinteria and Camarillo by Homeland Security to the dismay of local politicians and the media? If you missed the list of undesirables, they included people arrested for and/or convicted of rape, kidnaping, narcotics trafficking, battery, child endangerment, felony firearm possession, indecent exposure, assault with a deadly weapon and burglary. Then, there were the unaccompanied minors that may have been trafficked.
The question our politicians and media pundits are avoiding at all costs? Aren’t these the type of people you would expect to find at an illegal pot-growing operation rather than one of the largest permitted operations in the state that also runs several of our local dispensaries?
The most preposterous and dangerous rhetoric I may have ever heard in a county supervisors’ hearing occurred while County Supervisors Laura Capps, Roy Lee, and Joan Hartmann were completely and unequivocally condemning Homeland Security for is investigations and actions the day of the enforcement action. These supervisors would neither admit that Homeland Security is a bona fide federal law enforcement agency that has sole jurisdiction over immigration matters, nor were they burdened by the fact that, as the Heritage Foundation reported, a study back in 2011 indicated that California’s brand of egregious sanctuary legislation explains how it’s possible for 250,000 illegal aliens to have a combined total of nearly 1.7 million arrests for three million offenses committed on U.S. soil. And that report is 14 years old.
What’s worse? Capps and Lee badgered Sheriff Bill Brown for not sending deputies to rescue the illegal aliens and protestors from ICE. Watching the hearing gave one the impression that they would like our sheriff’s department to be transformed into some sort of militia unit to defend against the efforts of Homeland Security to arrest the illegal aliens and protect the protestors from the defensive measures employed by ICE. That is, these supervisors, along with Congressman Salud Carbajal, were outraged that the feds showed up in force and with the gear necessary to defend themselves if violence broke out, which it did.
Watch (and share) this very short video that captures Lee and Capps berating and cajoling our sheriff who thankfully stood his ground making them both look like the fools they are.
No More “Catch and Release”
Of course, what many people are upset about, while ignoring the presence of the incorrigibles and the unaccompanied minors, is the “otherwise” law-abiding illegal aliens that were caught up in the sweep as collateral damage, if you will. My take on that is that the last thing the Trump administration is going to engage in is a catch-and-release operation. In other words, I don’t believe that Glass House would have been the subject of a search warrant for simply employing illegal aliens. Unfortunately, however, for the “otherwise” law-abiding illegal aliens employed there, they were in the wrong place at the wrong time for an administration that is committed to enforcing the law as written until such a time as Congress can agree on some form of real immigration reform.
Regarding the cries for “due process” for illegal aliens, either our local leaders and the media are uninformed, or they are lying about the laws in place to deal with this situation. As immigration expert Hans von Spakovsky reports for the Heritage Foundation, “Some critics of the Trump Administration’s enforcement of federal immigration law, including members of the public, the media, and Congress, have made misleading claims about the due process rights that apply in immigration proceedings. Those who claim that non-citizens – referred to in our nation’s immigration laws as aliens – are entitled to the full panoply of constitutional rights enjoyed by American citizens are simply wrong and fail to differentiate between criminal prosecutions and immigration proceedings, which are civil matters.” That is, “due process” in this case simply requires a hearing before a federal immigration judge employed by the Department of Justice as to whether an alien has a legitimate claim and proof to obtain asylum or residency.
That’s it!
Throwing Stones In and At Glass Houses
Concerning immigration proceedings, some 1.4 million illegals have already received their final order to deport. Tom Homan thereby has indicated that “the priorities [for removal] will focus on public safety threats, national security threats, and fugitives,” as well as those who “got due process at great taxpayer expense and the federal judge ordered them removed, but they didn’t leave, and they became a fugitive.”
I find it ironic that these same politicians who had no problem shutting down schools, churches, businesses, parks, beaches, hiking trails, and pretty much anything and everything else they could think of to save us from COVID, won’t lift a finger to save us from the hundreds of thousands of illegal alien criminals in this country who are committing heinous crimes against citizens and immigrants alike nor are they interested in protecting the “otherwise” law-abiding immigrants from the cartels who facilitated their passage across our border with Mexico. Everyone knows that the coyotes raped a significant number of the women who crossed the border and forced many others into employment as drug mules (or worse), but as far as our electeds and our local media is concerned, there is nothing to see here!
In conclusion, perhaps the protestors, our electeds, and local media (especially blind poodles) should refrain from throwing rocks at federal agents who are doing their job and aim instead at the people working in glass houses.
Andy Caldwell, Executive Director, COLAB
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And you better believe Capps, Carbajal (I like to spell his name CarbaTel) and Company are trying to ruin Fiesta so they can blame the ruination of Fiesta on ICE and Trump. Nick Welsh wrote “The two Kellys — City Administrator Kelly McAdoo and Police Chief Kelly Gordon (have concluded) that … ICE agents could find themselves easily overwhelmed in the tsunami of Tsanta Barbara humanity thronging the streets or De la Guerra Plaza. It could be Custer’s Last Stand all over again.” Gee, Nick, I'm so grateful to you for making sure it's a peaceful Fiesta by inciting violence. You know why you call yourself The Angry Poodle? Because you're a spoiled lapdog of the rich Marianne Partridge who didn't have to do a thing to own 18,000 acres and all you get are the crumbs from her table she entertains her A+ Dem friends at.
Another excellent article Andy. We have been watching your war against the idiot monsters that the people of Santa Barbara County and City have elected over the years. We are from Ventura county and are watching our elected officials going down the same sewer hole of woke insanity.
Every person that threw items at our ICE and CBP agents should be arrested and given a minimum prison sentence of 10 years. For the morons who insist that agents not cover their faces, I say that we should DOX every SBCC, SBCBS, State Senator's, and State Legislators home address, work place and where their children and family goes to school.