Doug McIntyre: Being PC is priority, not safety of public

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, L.A. City Council members gotta pander.

It's just what they do, folks. It's their nature. They can't help themselves.

On Tuesday, your Los Angeles City Council voted to support a bill in Sacramento that would let L.A. opt out of the "Secure Communities" program, a federal law that requires local police agencies to send suspects' fingerprints to Immigration and Customs Enforcement so they can be cross-checked with federal deportation orders.

The panderers this time around are Bernard "Bitter Bernie" Parks and Jan "Call me Madame Mayor" Perry.

Parks threw out the first rhetorical Molotov cocktail by proclaiming, "Anti-immigration activists will accuse Los Angeles of being a `Sanctuary City' and harboring criminals." Which is exactly what L.A. has been doing since Special Order 40 became Los Angeles police policy in 1979. However, for the millionth time, Parks slanders opponents of Special Order 40 by claiming we're "anti-immigrant," as if we want to sandblast Emma Lazarus' poem off the base of the Statue of Liberty.

Hey Bernie, they're called ILLEGAL immigrants, not immigrants!

The "anti-immigrant" lie is Parks' way of injecting race into what should be a no-brainer rule of law. If you break into our country, our state, our county,

our city, you are here illegally. Got it?

L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca gets it.

In a May 16 op-ed piece for the Los Angeles Times, Baca explained in language even the council should be able to comprehend that "Secure Communities" works.

Some 20,000 criminal illegal immigrants have been deported from L.A. County thanks to the program Parks, Perry and the rest of the geniuses on Spring Street want to shut down.

According to Sheriff Baca, one 32-year-old man was picked up on a DUI charge. His prints showed he had already been previously deported for illegal entry AFTER having been convicted of killing a child!

But what worries Parks?

"The large issue for me is that this is a home-rule issue." Are we supposed to believe Bernard Parks is suddenly a states' rights guy?

Of course, the whopper lie repeated with metronomic regularity by the hack politicians and Politically Correct Charlie Beck and Assistant Chief Michel Moore is how "Special Order 40 ... has made the city safer since it was established in 1979."

Prove it, Chief Moore.

Gangs and drive-by shootings have killed thousands, including, tragically, Bernard Parks' own granddaughter.

If L.A.'s streets are safer today, it's thanks to 3 strikes laws, the heroic efforts of rank-and-file officers and anti-gang units, and effective programs like "Secure Communities."

Doug McIntyre's column appears every Sunday & Wednesday. Contact him: Columnist@DailyNews.com.

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