CALIFORNIA’S RADICAL ATTORNEY GENERAL WILL SUE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO BLOCK CONSTRUCTION OF BORDER WALL

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CALIFORNIA’S RADICAL ATTORNEY GENERAL 
WILL SUE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION 
TO BLOCK BORDER WALL 
BY WARREN MASS
 
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

California’s radical Attorney General Xavier Becerra (shown) traveled
to San Diego on September 20 to announce a lawsuit he will file against
the Trump administration over its plan to begin construction of a wall
along the Mexican border in San Diego and Imperial counties. Becerra
made his announcement at the Border Field State Park in Imperial Beach,
which borders Playas de Tijuana in Mexico.


“No one gets to ignore the laws. Not even the President of the United States,” Becerra said to those attending.

The Times of San Diego reported that the federal government
is seeking to start construction of the border wall in San Diego County.
Last month the Department of Homeland Security announced it has secured
a waiver that will allow it to bypass environmental regulations to
speed up the building process in both San Diego and Imperial counties.

The Calexico waiver, as it was called, marked the seventh time the
government has waived environmental reviews under a 2005 law. That law
exempts the federal government from the National Environmental
Protection Act, which calls for extensive reviews of environmental
impacts, as well as many other laws.

The DHS would waive 37 federal statues as well as regulations related to those statutes, Becerra said during his announcement

That move would violate “numerous state and local laws” in California
and San Diego County, he asserted. “If it happens in our backyard we
demand that it be carried out the right way and follow the rule of law,”
said Becerra as quoted by the Times of San Diego. “If you want
to do business in California — and that includes the President of the
United States — be prepared to follow the law.”

A September 20 report in Politico cited Becerra’s statement
that the lawsuit will argue that the administration’s plan to build the
wall along the border violates federal law and the Constitution by
intruding on state authority. “They’re violating the Tenth Amendment and
infringing on a lot of state laws, not just federal laws, that affect
our state. At the same time, they’re trying to do something that only
Congress can do,” Becerra told journalists in Washington in advance of
an official announcement he plans to make in San Diego. “In California,
that’s not going to fly,” Becerra added.

Becerra said the suit will argue that federal officials are running
afoul of the law by declaring the expansion of the border wall to be an
emergency that justifies waiving environmental studies and usual
contracting procedures.

This is not Becerra’s first lawsuit against the Trump administration.
However, when the attorneys general of 15 states and the District of
Columbia filed suit on September 6 against the administration to block
it from terminating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program
(DACA), California did not join the lawsuit. A spokeswoman cited by NPR
said that although Becerra has worked closely with other state attorneys
general, he will likely choose to take action independently because of
the number of DACA recipients in his state.

The DACA program protected from deportation those brought to this
country illegally as children. They are often referred to as DREAMers — a
reference to the DREAM Act, which was never ratified by Congress but
used as a model for provisions incorporated into DACA by executive order
under the Obama administration.

“We will not permit Donald Trump to destroy the lives of young
immigrants who make California and our country stronger,” Becerra said
in a statement last week. “The court of public opinion has already
spoken: the vast majority of Americans agree Dreamers should be here to
stay; so now it’s time to fight in every way we can — and on multiple
fronts — in the court of law.”

Additionally, California was also the first state to challenge the
administration on its policy of denying funds to “sanctuary cities” that
limit cooperation with enforcement of U.S. immigration laws. The state
of California and city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit against the U.S.
Department of Justice over President Trump’s sanctuary city
restrictions on public safety grants.

If Becerra’s name sounds familiar to some readers, it is because in
addition to doing battle with the Trump administration, he has gone to
war against pro-life activists. On March 28, Becerra filed 15 felony
charges in the state Superior Court in San Francisco against David
Daleiden, the founder of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), and his
associate Sandra Merritt. Becerra alleged that Daleiden and Merritt
invaded the privacy of staff personnel at Planned Parenthood by filming
undercover videos of themselves trying to buy fetal tissue from the
abortion provider.

Becerra’s tendency toward radicalism was noted in an article posted by The New American
last January, when Governor Jerry Brown first nominated him for his
present position. The article’s author, Bob Adelmann, observed after
Brown announced the pick:


Given [Becerra’s] radical background, his
long history of associating with communist and progressive groups, and
his far-left voting record including opposition to rights enshrined in
the Second Amendment, Becerra ought to be a slam-dunk.


Adelmann continued by detailing some of the key points of the Becerra’s past:

First voted into office as a member of
the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992, Becerra has welcomed the
support of far-left groups such as the Democratic Socialists of America,
which formally endorsed his reelection to the House in 1996. He
returned the favor by supporting other far-left groups such as the
Chicano Coalition for Peace and Social Justice, a group that had been
infiltrated by the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). In 2005 he joined
Latinos for Peace, an anti-Iraq War front group of the CPUSA.

Adelmann noted that in September of 2009, when the House voted 345-75
to defund ACORN, Becerra was one of the 75 who voted to continue
funding for the notoriously radical and corrupt community organization.

This is the man who presumes to lecture Trump and the members of his
administration on the 10th Amendment and the law. However, considering
the decisions made recently by federal judges who have heard various
lawsuits against the administration (e.g., U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber of Chicago ruled
September 15 that the Department of Justice cannot withhold federal
dollars in law-enforcement grants to sanctuary cities), one of them is
likely to take the California lawsuit seriously instead of dismissing
it.

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