[Hoot Gibson]

I have a suggestion to the Trump administration about how to deal with sanctuary states that are determined to help illegal alien criminals avoid deportation by ICE.

1. Trump should make a primetime announcement that beginning in one week, ICE will suspend operations in the state of California to allow time for the federal courts to decide the legality of state officials aiding and abbetting criminals in the state. The reason given will be the inefficiency of California's continuous interference in federal law enforcement's operations in the state. All funding for federal assistance to state law enforcement agencies will be suspended until further notice. If the state does not want to cooperate with ICE and other federal law enforcement agencies, then federal assistance will be withheld from state and local law enforcement agencies.

2. After one week, if California does not decide to cooperate with ICE and repeal "Trump-proofing" legislation, then Trump would announce that ICE assets will be redeployed to the other 49 states. The federal government will continue patrolling the California border with Mexico, but it will no longer attempt to apprehend criminal illegals in the interior of the state.

The easiest way to demonstrate that liberal immigration policies do not work is to give California what its liberal politicians say they want. Let them continue to promote their state as a sanctuary for illegal aliens and see how that works for them. Help liberal Californian politicians fail.

I predict that this strategy for dealing with California will result in illegal alien criminals migrating en masse to the state to evade ICE. When the citizens of California demand that their state politicians resume cooperation with ICE, then ICE can shift its enforcement focus to California.

I suggest that the above strategy would expedite ICE's deportation efforts in 49 states, herd illegal criminals to California, and accelerate the Golden State's return to the political mainstream.