If Tom Steyer wants to help immigrants, he’ll do this

Does California really want to go to war with ICE?

Sane people say no.

Tom Steyer says yes.

The billionaire and wannabe California governor has vowed that if elected, he will treat ICE like the mob, and prosecute federal agents accordingly.

Of course, that’s nuts.

California cannot, in fact, arrest federal agents for enforcing federal law. 

And most of us know that under the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, federal law trumps state law.

All of this makes Steyer’s threats absurd, and he should drop them. 

The billionaire and other candidates for governor should end the tedious political theater –– Trump Derangement Syndrome in Three Acts –– get serious about the long list of issues afflicting California.

Immigration is primarily a federal issue, not a state charge, and pandering to lefty voters on the issue solves nothing.

Many Californians may not like the Trump administration’s crackdown on unfettered illegal immigration, but ICE agents are just doing their jobs. 

They deserve none of the threats and invective dished out by activists, politicians, and other opportunists.

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Besides, any quarrel the state or its officials may have with President Trump’s immigration policy is just that –– a disagreement over policy. 

Suggesting that policy differences are somehow criminal is wrong, misleading, and dangerous. 

Then again, it’s hard to take Steyer seriously on this and many other issues, given his serial hypocrisy.

As The California Post has reported, Steyer’s hedge fund at one time invested nearly $90 million in the private prison company that runs a couple of California detention centers now used by ICE to detain illegal immigrants.

Oops. Now that the billionaire is running (again) for high office, he avers that “it was a mistake to think that that was a place where it was decent to make money.”

It’s convenient that Steyer saw the light after raking in beaucoup millions, and not before.

So here’s an idea for the hypocritical hopeful:

If he really is contrite and concerned about illegal immigrants, he should take the millions he collected from investing in private prisons and put that cash toward serving the very immigrants her purports to defend.

He’s already spent $120 million on ads in his quest for the governor’s office, in what Politico on Thursday called “the most expensive campaign in America.”

This, after he blew $340 million on his dead-end 2020 presidential run.

What’s another $90 million for the illegal-immigrant downtrodden?

It would be better than vowing to commit state taxpayers to a ludicrous war on federal agents, no?