Houston Mayor Ends ICE Cooperation After Governor Abbott Shits The Bed In The Mid-Terms
Texas governor Greg Piss Baby" Abbott lost his office during the mid-terms. What a shame. The guy who spent years engaging in attacks on free speech when not trying to turn all of Texas into a thin blue line finally got kicked to the curb by residents who were sick of both his shit and that of his MAGA benefactor, Donald Trump.
Abbott = Trump = ICE. With Abbott leaving office, replaced by Democratic Party candidate Gina Hinojosa, other state officials are now feeling a bit more free to throw off the MAGA shackles and get back to doing what's best for their own constituents.
Houston's mayor is done with ICE's bullshit, now that the governor is no longer capable of throwing his bigoted, anti-constitutional weight around, as the New York Times reports:
Mayor John Whitmire of Houston said he was directing city police officers on Friday to limit their cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement during traffic stops, bucking a policy imposed on Texas's largest city by Gov. Greg Abbott.
Under an executive order from the mayor, Houston police officers will no longer alert ICE agents when they encounter an unauthorized migrant during routine traffic stops or in connection with other low level infractions.
Instead, officers will only alert ICE in cases where a person has been arrested and is being brought to, or has already arrived at, a county jail.
It is to LOL. While I wish more city reps had pushed back against Abbott and his desire to placate Trump during this internal invasion of the United States by masked ICE kidnapping squads, I'm more than happy to revel in the belated blow-off of everything Trumpian following his party's spectacular mid-term implosion.
And why should any law enforcement agency lend ICE a hand? If federal immigration officers want to do evil things on main - ranging from murders to assaults to deliberately running people over - they should do it on their own. There's no reason any US law enforcement agency should agree to be an accomplice, before, during, or after the fact. Let these motherfuckers do their evil shit on their own. Just handle your own stuff and I guarantee the locals will like and respect you more than if you've decided to aid and abet actual evil.
And this move makes even more sense now that Harris County prosecutors are moving forward with criminal charges against ICE agent Mario Morales - the officer who deliberately ran over a fleeing man and then hid behind false statements by ICE and DHS until footage captured by a local business's CCTV camera exposed ICE's lies.
Technically, Governor Abbott still controls Texas until next January. But everyone in Texas can help him find the exit before he's officially no longer a drain on their tax dollars. And that neutralizes Abbott's threat to pull more than $100 million in public safety funding from Houston unless it agreed to be part of the ICE problem.
That threat no longer exists. And now that it doesn't, other cities in Texas should be following in Mayor Whitmire's footsteps. There's nothing stopping them now. Abbott's temporary grasp of the state's purse strings has effectively ended. Now is the time to do what's best for the people they serve.