The Department of Justice is considering whether or not to pursue obstruction of justice charges for Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf after she warned illegal immigrants of an upcoming ICE raid.
Schaaf, a Democrat – to nobody’s surprise – said earlier this year that she was willing to go to jail in order to protect her city’s sanctuary city policies.
“We’re very clear that our values are to protect all of our residents regardless of where we come from,” she said. “We want to protect families, not tear them apart.”
Over the weekend, Schaaf issued a warning to illegals on Twitter, tipping them off to a pending raid in her city.
— Libby Schaaf (@LibbySchaaf) February 25, 2018
A defiant Schaaf said she does “not regret sharing this information,” despite acting ICE Director Thomas Homan acknowledging that her tip led to over 800 criminal illegal immigrants avoiding arrest.
“What she did is no better than a gang lookout yelling ‘police’ when a police cruiser comes in the neighborhood, except she did it to a whole community,” Homan claimed.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson likened Schaaf’s actions to “telling bank robbers the cops are on the way.”
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John Yoo, who served in the Bush Justice Department, said “state officers cannot obstruct federal law,” adding that “we had a civil war over this.”
John Yoo on Oakland mayor warning of ICE raid: “The Constitution and the Supreme Court are quite clear, immigration law is the sole preserve of the federal government.” #Tucker https://t.co/62cmgG5duT pic.twitter.com/dawcRl6oLd
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 1, 2018
The Department of Justice is now looking into whether or not they can charge Schaaf with obstruction of justice for her reckless behavior.
Homan, told “Fox & Friends” that the DOJ is “reviewing” whether Schaaf broke any laws by warning her constituents of the raid.
The agency’s acting director, Thomas Homan, told “Fox & Friends” Wed morning that the DOJ is “reviewing” whether Schaaf broke any laws by telling her constituents ICE would be raiding the area in order to arrest people violating federal immigration laws.
— Mary💋🇺🇸 (@AmericanHotLips) February 28, 2018
In an interview with Neil Cavuto in January, Homan said, “We’ve got to take [sanctuary cities] to court, and we’ve got to start charging some of these politicians with crimes.”
In addition, he urged the Department of Justice to “file charges against the sanctuary cities” and “hold back their funding.”
It seems like a no-brainer. Schaaf is now responsible for over 800 criminal illegals roaming the streets in the Bay Area, many of whom had violent backgrounds.
She is now an accessory to their crimes, both past, and future.
Arrest this mayor or let her be – Share your thoughts below!
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Another friggin libturd Democrap! She should be fired or forced to resign. It’s idiots like this that cause the deaths of people like Kate Steinle. So disgusted with sanctuary cities & illegal immigrants being more important to these liberals than natural American citizens! Screw them all!
first thing they need to do is fire the person who leaked the information about the upcoming raid then they need to arrest the mayor for aiding and harboring fugitives from the law!
What a bleeding heart; hope she has repercussion from one of those that is using Oakland as a sanctuary city. She should be made to pay all the support of them and not use the taxpayers money of those who is against it. Needs to put her money where her mouth is. Because of this Calif. residents are already being over taxed for it. Hope they do something about it; I would if I was still living there. Those fruitcake politicians there have ruined my state.
Now this is truly sickening. Not only should she be arrested and charged, but thrown right out of the mayor’s office, and elect someone else.
ARREST HER, FIND HER AND GIVE HERE 5 YEARS IN JAIL. MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF HERE FOR THE OTHER MAYORS, GOVERNERS, ETC. IF I DROVE A GET AWAY CARE IN A BANK ROBBERY, YOU WOULD SURE ARREST ME. SAME SHOULD APPLY TO HER.
ICE and the Border Patrol Need to operate in complete secrecy when it comes to surveillance and raids to keep advanced information away from people like Libby Schaaf . If there is anything in place that requires state officials to know what the Federal agents are doing,it needs to be rescinded immediately. What Schaaf did was no better than a lookout watching for the ‘Po-Po’ during a robbery or an illegal street race. The bleeding hearts that want to forget the original act of illegal immigration because the illegals are ‘good, honest, tax-paying people’ should also stop looking for 80 year old war criminals because they are living ‘good, honest, tax-paying’ lives in Argentina et al.
Arrest her, prosecute her, put her in prison. The Democrats have become outlaws. Deal with them as outlaws.
I don’t like being censored by political insider, you are violating my right to free speech !
Yes Harvey, I don’t like it either. They just decide willy nilly what they’re going to allow but give no guidelines or don’t send you a response when you write to ask why they deleted your post.
Arrest the Oakland Mayor, charge her with aiding, abetting criminal activity and obstruction of Federal Justice. She ought to look like a nice old hag after 40 years in the Federal Pen!
Put her in cuffs, throw her in jail…
She broke the law, so, she should go to jail!!!
Anthony Manzo
Put her in jail with the illegals she is shielding. Trump. has to get tough with these pinheads who keep flaunting the law, or the USA is doomed.
If she is not arrested it will PROVE to We the People that politicians are above the law. We will then need to organize and take action ourselves. When your elected officials turn on the people it the Peoples responsibility to take action.
That’s a good thought Patricia, but unfortunately most people are like sheeple & won’t do a darn thing. Write letters to your Congressmen & Trump & demand they take action. It’s easy to email them, I do it all the time.
Democrats certainly do love and protect their bandito’s (not the motorcycle).
Just let California secede, send them all the refugees and illegals and call it a day!