The Ghost of Law-loss Past points you to the Welcoming City
The LMPD Consent Decree Series, Post 5 - A downward spiral to lawlessness
Did you know that Louisville Metro police are not allowed to discover nor to reveal if a resident is an illegal alien? This is because Louisville is a compassionate city and a welcoming city.
A screenshot from the FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform) website refers to LOUISVILLE, KY (Metro Louisville), and references:
A Louisville Metro Council Ordinance
A Louisville Metro Police Department Policy, and
A 2020 Kentucky Anti-sanctuary Bill.
The LMPD Policy was implemented on September 22, 2017, announced by Mayor Greg Fischer. A video on X (Twitter) early that morning announced the new policy.
About a month later, the Metro Council ordinance was passed. The Courier-Journal reported:
Democrats said the mayor's change needed to be codified into law to avoid the policy being reversed and to broaden it beyond Louisville police.
U.S. Immigration Law is found in Title 8 (551 pages) in the U.S. Code of Law (54 Titles), a compilation of most public laws currently in force.
Suffice to say, State and local law enforcement officials are required to assist federal agents in apprehending illegal and criminal aliens, and Metro Ordinance 39.002 significantly hampers that.
To remove that roadblock, Senator Danny Carroll sponsored a bill, SB1, in January 2020,
“to prohibit law enforcement agencies, officials, employees, public officials (others) from enacting, adopting or otherwise enforcing any sanctuary policy relating to immigration, and to require them to support the enforcement of federal immigration law; and provide that any immigration sanctuary policy adopted prior to or after the effective date of the Act in violation of Section 1 of the Act is invalid, void, and unenforceable…”
The bill passed the Senate, but died in the House Judiciary Committee.
Then, in 2021, the Kentucky Legislature, in response to the Breonna Taylor false narrative, went ever further in preventing efficient investigation of criminals by banning ‘no-knock warrants,’ with some exceptions. No-knock warrants are essential to some arrests for the surprise element.
Let’s be rational
The rationale for losing the law was stated by Ordinance Sponsor, Brandon Coan:
…the ordinance should not be seen as a signal that Louisville harbors criminals… it allows for all residents to feel comfortable when calling emergency services if they are the victim of or a witness to a crime without fear of deportation.
On ICE’s website we learn: “…some jurisdictions elect to minimally cooperate with ERO’s law enforcement efforts while other jurisdictions have ceased to cooperate altogether.“ EROs (Enforcement and Removal Operations) are only for “noncitizens who threaten the safety of our nation’s communities and the integrity of U.S. immigration laws.”
How laws go from clear to gray
In Title 8’s extravagant 551 pages there is plenty of room to mangle, tangle and finagle laws and rules so that they are finally illogical and contradictory. Likewise, in much less space, the Metro Council Ordinance confuses us by stating:
(B)(1)(d) Nothing in this section prohibits public safety officials from adequately identifying criminal suspects or assessing the risk of flight of criminal suspects.
And:
(B)(1)(a) Public safety officials may not undertake any law enforcement action, such as entering into Section 287(g) agreements with U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement ("ICE"), for the purpose of detecting the presence of undocumented persons, persons out of status, or persons unlawfully residing in the United States (collectively "undocumented"), or to verify immigration status, including but not limited to questioning any person or persons about their immigration status.
How can LMPD officers fulfill their oath to protect us when they are not permitted to ‘detect the presence of undocumented persons’ nor cooperate with ICE unless authorized by a supervisor? And why would they, when ‘violators… may be subject to disciplinary action, such as oral reprimands, written reprimands, suspension without pay, and/or discharge, under the appropriate union contract, civil service commission rules, or department work rules’ ?
How can our schools, neighborhoods and LMPD officers be safe from illegal aliens—those who are criminals? WDRB recently reported on a fifth grader whose cell phone was stolen by a classmate— a 17-year old male from Senegal.
Sources told WDRB the suspect is from Senegal and his family's immigration papers claim he's 10 years old. But sources say his family also produced documents that say he's 17.
Carolyn Callahan, Chief Communications Officer with JCPS, said last week she didn't have any information regarding the case. But this week, she said the district follows documentation provided by the family to determine enrollment.
Also recently, the LMPD held a media conference to share bodycam video of the recent shooting of Officer Haley. It is lauded as proof of the new transparency of the LMPD. But will we ever know if the criminals who shot Officer Haley are illegal immigrants? At about 33” a reporter asks a damning question. Check it out.
Whatever happened to legal immigration?
The Ghost of Law-loss Past would point to our current border crisis as the greatest evidence of what results when laws are lost.
Nevertheless, conservatives will be mocked as Scrooges. Don’t you care about the huddled masses at the Southern border?
To which we reply, YOU, leftists, are the ones without compassion. You are cruel. Please watch and hear this description of how the the Biden administration border policy facilitates human trafficking of children and even babies. There are many such exposes on the web.
The illegals crossing over the U.S. borders who arrive here are camouflaged by the insurgence of our Welcoming City. The Federal Consent Decree will make things much worse.
AN ASIDE
A spinoff of the Metro Ordinance is that personal identity is no longer related to citizenship:
(B)(1)(e) Presentation of a photo identity document issued by the person's nation of origin, such as a driver's license, passport, or consulate-issued document, or of a photo identity document issued by any Kentucky county, should be accepted as adequate evidence to establish identity and should not subject the person to an inquiry into the person's immigration status.
This also affects election security.
The internet says:
the purpose of a sanctuary city is to gather potential votes so those in power can maintain their position. People who have little look to the government to support them and the government will do that in exchange for votes.
An initiative at the recent WorldFest in downtown Louisville was to register voters.