Senator Casey Crabtree: No Sanctuary in South Dakota
MADISON–Growing up in Arlington, South Dakota, we kept our keys in our pickups and the doors to our house were always open. Parents let their kids ride their bikes around town until the 6 o’clock whistle told us it was time to come home. We felt safe and secure. We trusted that everyone in our community looked out for one another and they had your back if tough times arrived. The same can’t be said today throughout the United States. Folks deserve to feel safe and secure, but that is hard to do after millions of criminals entered the United States illegally under the Biden Administration.
The recent chaos in the streets of Los Angeles and their liberal leaders, particularly Gavin Newsom and LA’s Mayor, doubling-down on protecting violent criminals once again highlighted the stark differences between California and South Dakota–criminals over citizens, chaos over order, and political theater over meaningful discussions. I’m grateful to call South Dakota home because we value law enforcement and public safety. I’m proud to be counted among our leaders here in South Dakota to side with our citizens and not the criminal illegal immigrants.
On July 1, South Dakota’s Sanctuary City Ban will take effect to enshrine our status as a state that will not harbor violent criminals who are in our country illegally. I was proud to be the prime sponsor of Senate Bill 7 this past year and turn this policy idea into law. SB 7 was so important to ensuring safer communities in South Dakota that it was the first bill that Gov. Rhoden signed into law as the new governor. It passed the legislature with overwhelming support and only Democrat opposition.
The policy in SB 7 helps support President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Noem’s agenda to protect our homeland. South Dakota voters helped elect a leader to secure the southern border including an end to the flow of meth and fentanyl that is tearing South Dakota families apart, and the president is fulfilling that promise. President Trump needs the support of states and cities to remove criminals who pose a danger to their communities, and SB 7 was the answer for South Dakota. Local law enforcement have been supportive of the President’s efforts so far this year. There were eight ICE arrests a few weeks ago, and 26 criminals arrested for other crimes have seen ICE detention holds at the Minnehaha and Pennington county jails.
This new law is straightforward: it blocks counties, cities, the state or state agencies from enforcing sanctuary policies and protects police officers who refuse to follow a sanctuary policy that is illegally adopted by South Dakota local governments. Since SB 7 was signed into law, five other states have followed suit with a sanctuary city ban.
My message for criminals in South Dakota illegally is simple–don’t wait for July 1, leave the United States now. You will not find sanctuary in South Dakota if you are a criminal here illegally, and thanks to President Trump, Secretary Noem and this new law, our communities will be strong, safe and secure.
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And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why the Hon. Casey Crabtree deserves a perfunctory golf-clap.
A solution looking for a problem. Pandering to the lowest common denominator in the run up to the HoR primary.
Let us remember that Trump is also a criminal. A convicted one as well, after receiving all the Due Process allowed under the law. Yet Casey would and does embrace him.
Name the violent crime he’s been convicted of.
in a case involving advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, a jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing her in 1996, awarding her $5 million in damages.
as I recall, that was not a criminal case, it was a civil one. Carroll couldn’t even remember the date it supposedly happened, it was late 1995 or early 1996. Was it before or after Christmas? Was the department store decorated for the holidays or not? seems like these are details a victim would remember.
It never made any sense at all. Anyone who has ever been in one of those high-end department stores knows the surveillance in the dressing rooms is intense. There is no way an assault could have occurred without witnesses. She won a defamation suit against him because he pointed out she’s not his type.
Will the public be notified when ICE raids the many dairies up and down I 29 as well as Smithfield?
Why would they need to be notified?
Who’s going to do all the work?
The severely obese MAGA clowns scooting string Walmart bc they can’t walk on their own?
‘I welcome illegal immigrants because they’ll do the work cheaper than I would otherwise have to pay an American for’ is not the burn you think it is.
It may not be a burn, but it’s the reality nonetheless.
It may not be a burn, but it’s the reality nonetheless.
While the libturd welfare whore screams at the cashier because EBT can’t be used to buy crap for her tribe of seven kids from 6 men at the ripe age of 28…may not be politically correct but true none the less.
That’s a terrible way to talk about your girlfriend.
My girlfriend? Try your mother.
Oh wait, you probably already did.
Sounds like someone running for federal office.
Another load of great nothingness. A perfect solution for a non-existent problem. There’s 0 sanctuary cities now and I’m sure it will be a great success when none arise after July 1st. Harrumph harrumph.
Jackley is my first choice for congress.
As life imitates art: New York and Los Angeles will become havens for criminals, eventually necessitating that they be enclosed by walls, razor wire, armed guards, etc, and then a one-eyed inmate named Snake Plissken will effect an escape..
They start as Sanctuary Cities, and turn in to prisons.
The votes by house and senate were unanimous right?