Blue States Fighting to Feed, Clothe and House Illegals…and Then There’s Florida

This morning, I dunked on New York State’s excreable governor, Kathy Hochul, as the latest egregious example of blue state lunacy regarding the illegals among us.

But she’s not the only one, and I really don’t know what it’s going to take for the majority of voters to wake up in some of these places, if they ever do, before they lose them completely.

For instance, Maine.

Now, we all know they are a unique bunch of characters up there in the Northwoods, and outside of the few urban centers, they’re pretty level-headed, self-sufficient, and no-nonsense.

For the most part, they’ve been able to co-exist as places like Portland spiral into progressive lunacy because it hasn’t really affected them, but that’s been changing over the past few years. Progressives love nothing more than running every facet of everyone’s life, and the thought that there might be some farmer or lumberman in a remote section of the state, fat and mostly contented with his life as he knew it caused them no end of angst.

So they started piecemeal with climate cult mandates, etc., and have now worked their way up to dictating what local law enforcement can and can’t do.

Local police in Maine have worked w/ ICE, CBP, & HSI to combat Chinese-run drug & sex trafficking. Many illegal massage parlors closed, incl. one w/ a male masseur deported for sexually assaulting a young female client.

Not anymore, say Maine Dems! https://t.co/1nneIrX0nE

— Steve Robinson (@BigSteve207) June 18, 2025

This is unconscionable in a state with a huge illegal Chinese immigrant problem related to illicit marijuana farms.

Maine’s Democrat-controlled legislature easily passed a bill that will cement the state’s status as a sanctuary jurisdiction for illegal alien criminals and restrict state, county, and local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities.

The bill (LD 1971) was introduced by Rep. Deqa Dhalac (D-South Portland), a former Somali refugee who has previously worked for the controversial immigrant services agency, Gateway Community Services.

The bill in question will severely restrict the activities of state and local police when it comes to cooperating with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Both agencies fall under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The bill’s restrictions are insane.

Of course, the daffy rep who wrote the bill says it’s ‘all in the interest of public safety.’

Rep. Deqa Dhalac testifies in support of her anti-ICE bill, which she claims will “promote public safety for everyone.”

The bill prohibits a law enforcement agency from “stopping, investigating, interrogating, arresting or detaining a person for immigration enforcement… pic.twitter.com/GX6PujyJWM

— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) May 20, 2025

Isn’t it always when everyone knows it’s not?

What a hellhole they’re turning that state into.

Meanwhile, in the well-established hellhole that is the creation of oleaginous Governor Gavin Newsom, one more brilliant pro-anti-ICE force idea has erupted from the cesspool that is the illegal advocates’ anti-federal law enforcement braintrust.

Let’s keep our precious illegals safe by forcing the feds to take their masks off during raids!

Again, this cannot be enforced against federal law enforcement, including ICE or Border Patrol, which is pictured here. Supremacy Clause. This is not hard to figure out. It’s not gonna happen. https://t.co/ANPH1Un8Jy

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 18, 2025

It’s as if they’ve already turned the state over to the cartels.

In Santa Ana, where they had a bang-up time in the old town a week ago, the spineless city council had a big #sadz yesterday when their brilliant ‘protect our illegals plan got shot down by that mean new US Attorney Bill Essayli.

See, all the council wanted to do was to force their police department – the same ones who had fireworks shot at them and rocks thrown – to set up a warning system to inform their precious illegal constituents in the city when ICE activity was happening in town.

That’s all.

Santa Ana councilmembers voted to drop work on a proposed policy that would have required the city’s Police Department to publicly post alerts about federal immigration enforcement activity.

A letter from U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli was received June 7, warning city leaders that implementing the policy could endanger officers, disrupt criminal investigations and expose city staff and elected officials to federal prosecution.

Discussing the letter during a closed session on Tuesday, June 17, the council voted 5-2, with councilmembers Benjamin Vazquez and Johnathan Hernandez opposed, to kill the proposal now. Councilmembers had asked city staff previously for more information about how the policy would work and what could be the implications.

“After reviewing the legal analysis and potential criminal liability and consequences to staff and elected officials, the council voted to discontinue further work on the councilmember-generated policy proposal,” City Attorney Sonia Carvalho reported out of the closed session.

The proposal, brought forward in May by Hernandez and Vazquez, would have required ICE courtesy alerts sent to the Police Department to be made public within 48 hours of receiving them. Some on the council, including Mayor Valerie Amezcua, had raised concerns about potential legal and financial risks.

Until Essayli said he’d sue the crap out of every last one of them personally.

After thinking bout it for a day or two, the bold freedom fighters on the council were all…

   

Mah-ROONS

There were two feel-good stories out of California, though. One of the turds flinging rocks at cop cars was arrested and charged after bragging about it onsocial media (speaking of mah-roons). What’s most heartening is that the local yokels are welcome to drop charges like they usually do, because the feds nailed him, too, so it don’t make no nevermind.

WEEE!

A man accused of throwing rocks at California Highway Patrol vehicles on the 101 Freeway and later setting one of them on fire during anti-immigration enforcement protests more than a week ago faces both federal and state charges, authorities announced Tuesday, June 17.

Adam Charles Palermo, 39, allegedly took to Facebook after the June 8 mayhem, posting several photos and videos, according to a poster presented during a press conference held by Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman, U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli and members of the CHP and Los Angeles Police Department.

“Of all the protests I’ve been involved in, which is well over a hundred now, I’m most proud of what I did today,” the post allegedly said.

Hochman said an anonymous tip from Crime Stoppers helped law enforcement identify, locate and arrest Palermo.

At the state level, Palermo was charged with four counts of assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer and single counts of arson and vandalism, Hochman said. He could face up to nine years and eight months in prison if convicted as charged.

At the federal level, Palermo faces one federal charge of attempted arson of a vehicle used in interstate or foreign commerce, Essayli said. He could face between five and 20 years in federal prison.

More, please.

And the feds also filed a statement of interest supporting Huntington Beach’s fight over having to comply with California’s sanctuary law.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday said California’s so-called sanctuary law that puts limits on local law enforcement assisting federal immigration officials is unconstitutional, filing a statement of interest in Huntington Beach’s lawsuit attempting to overturn the state law.

“California’s existing state law is designed to interfere with local jurisdictions that want to carry out immigration enforcement,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a news release. “As this week’s violence in Los Angeles demonstrates, the safe administration of immigration enforcement is both paramount and under threat — laws that undermine immigration enforcement at great risk to agents and citizens must not stand.”

Meanwhile, hard as it is to believe, my hometown made illegal alien news today.

9 previously deported illegal immigrants caught in Northwest Florida for illegal reentry:

Five were caught in Pensacola, Three were caught in Santa Rosa County and one was caught in Fort Walton Beach. https://t.co/QbUoknPEfZ

— WEAR ABC 3 (@weartv) June 18, 2025

Every last one of these criminals had been previously deported and came right straight back here a couple of years later.

…In Pensacola, more than six of these arrests have occurred this year. All were found to be driving without a license, including Perez-Perez, who allegedly re-entered the US illegally after previously being deported not once, not twice, but three times more than a decade ago.

Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons says the law is there for a reason.

“It tells me two things — one is that we live in a great country, people want to come here,” he said. “The second thing it tells me is there’s a process and it would behoove them to utilize that process to legally enter the country so that ultimately they could become a us citizen.”

The penalty for illegally reentering the United States after deportation is a maximum of two years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

I know our sugar sand beaches are well-nigh irresistible, but there are limits to our welcome.

These guys will be wishing they’d stayed gone. 

The rest of us are mighty glad again that we live in Florida.