How Does Federal Control of Washington, DC, Affect National Sovereignty?

The liberty principle for this Freedom Friday concerns sanctuary cities and national sovereignty. According to border czar Tom Homan, Washington, D.C. will not operate as a sanctuary city during the time that its police are under federal control. It is a time when the police officers will work together with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. Virginia Allen reported the following concerning Washington, D.C. and federal control. 

“I think D.C. under federal control is not going to be a sanctuary city,” Homan said on Fox News Wednesday. “We’re working with the police hand-in-hand, and when we encounter criminal illegal aliens, they’ll be turned over to ICE.”

“I’m not saying every illegal alien in D.C. is a criminal, but many are,” Homan continued. “so these are the people we’re going to focus on. [The] illegal alien criminal safety threat in D.C. is not going to be protected. There’s no sanctuary for these people in the city of D.C.”

Homan made his remarks after President Donald Trump announced the federalization of Washington’s police force and promised to send the National Guard into the city to support the city’s police force in addressing violent crime there. Since Washington, D.C., restricts law enforcement from working with federal immigration agents, federal control of the city will change the dynamics of crime control.

Attorney General Pam Bondi stated last week that “Sanctuary policies impede law enforcement and put American citizens at risk by design.” As such, sovereign cities damage the nation’s ability to maintain sovereignty by protecting foreign nationals from police. Bondi pledged to bring “litigation against sanctuary jurisdictions and work closely with the Department of Homeland Security to eradicate these harmful policies around the country.” Allen’s article continued as follows.

Under current law, the president is only permitted to federalize Washington’s police for 30 days, but Trump expressed interest during a press conference Wednesday in seeing this time limit changed.

“We’re going to need a crime bill that we’re going to be putting in, and it’s going to pertain initially to D.C.,” Trump said. [The word initially tells me that there is a desire to go into other cities.]

“It’s almost going to use it as a very positive example, and we’re going to be asking for extensions on that, long-term extensions, because you can’t have 30 days,” he continued. “Thirty days is, by the time you do it – we’re going to have this in good shape.”

 

Why Does National Sovereignty Depend on Strong Leadership?

The liberty principle for this Freedom Friday is the importance of strong leadership in obtaining and retaining strong national sovereignty. President Donald Trump campaigned on closing the national borders and deporting illegal aliens. Once he was inaugurated as President of the United States, he began signing executive orders to follow through on his campaign promises.

Even though Trump plainly told Americans what he would do as President, many people were surprised when he followed through on his promises.

When Trump and his administration began deporting criminal illegal aliens, many people were pleased. However, there are also millions of people who are displeased and who protested, and the protests turned into riots. The rioters hoped that their rioting, demonstrations, and attacks on ICE agents would persuade Trump to stop deporting illegal aliens – just as temper-tantrums-throwing toddlers hope that their unruly behavior will convince their parents to give them what they want. However, things are not working as the Leftists desired, according to Joseph MacKinnon at The Blaze. 

The president announced Sunday evening in a post on Truth Social that he was ordering ICE officers to lean into their mass deportation campaign.

“Every day, the Brave Men and Women of ICE are subjected to violence, harassment, and even threats from Radical Democrat Politicians, but nothing will stop us from executing our mission, and fulfilling our Mandate to the American People,” wrote Trump. “ICE Officers are herewith ordered, by notice of this TRUTH, to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.”

Trump indicated that success will depend upon an expansion of detention and deportation efforts in America’s largest cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, which he noted were not only temporarily home to millions of illegal aliens but “the core of the Democrat Power Center, where they use Illegal Aliens to expand their Voter Base, cheat in Elections, and grow the Welfare State, robbing good paying Jobs and Benefits from Hardworking American Citizens.”

“The American People want our Cities, Schools, and Communities to be SAFE and FREE from Illegal Alien Crime, Conflict, and Chaos,” continued Trump. “That’s why I have directed my entire Administration to put every resource possible behind this effort, and reverse the tide of Mass Destruction Migration that has turned once Idyllic Towns into scenes of Third World Dystopia. Our Federal Government will continue to be focused on the REMIGRATION of Aliens to the places form where they came, and preventing the admission of ANYONE who undermines the domestic tranquility of the United States.”