Illegal border crossers who need sanctuary from U.S. limits on their conveniently discovered “freedoms” have a home in Rockland, Maine.
Bowing to a free-the-dream crowd happy to invite the worst elements of foreign influence, city councilors have adopted an ordinance forbidding their police department from assisting federal immigration agents unless a judge gives the green light.
The measure was developed with help from the state branch of American Civil Liberties Union, the group formerly headed by Maine’s Secretary of State and liberal gubernatorial candidate Shenna Bellows.
Nicole Kalloch was the lone dissenter in the 4-to-1 council vote that followed pleas for going soft on crime from dozens of area residents.
“You can’t legislate away ICE but you can legislate away common sense,” Kalloch told The Maine Wire. “I was really sick last night. But I had to be there to vote against it.”
Unfortunately gentrified Rockland, where coffee boutiques and art galleries have displaced sardine canneries, no longer has Hells Angels around to help keep the nefarious underfoot.
Councilor Kaitlin Callahan, among the new wave of socialists now setting policy in once-conservative Rockland, made sure the point was made that the town is now a free-for-all sanctuary for lawlessness.
“Let’s send a clear and powerful message again,” Callahan intoned. “We will not be governed by fear.”
A political battle has been raging across Maine over whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will be able to actually do their job – detaining illegal immigrants.
The new ordinance states that no city employee shall stop, arrest or detain a person for immigration enforcement.
“When an ordinance is driven more by activist talking points than by legal guidance or public safety professionals, the community loses,” Kalloch said. “Rockland deserves leadership grounded in reality, not the same failed ideas that have left other cities questioning whether they feel any safer.”
Democrat Sen. Anne Beebe-Center, D-Rockland, was glad to join the Free Willy crowd in council chambers pleading for migrant “justice.”
Beebe-Center, who also opposes July 4 fireworks, said she rarely attends council meetings but just had to ditch the sanctuary of her living room for the sake of throwing some more useless liberal rhetoric onto the anti-Trump bonfire.
Taking the cuffs off law-breaking foreign tourists apparently lights a fuse under the native daughter of the Massachusetts town that was home of the Salem Witch Trials.
