Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to start another civil war.
The left has decided that immigration law is illegitimate and that anyone who wants to should be able to move here and anyone illegally here should be protected. Judicial activists have backed this position. And California and New York are ordering local law enforcement not to cooperate with Federal authorities, New York via an executive order from Mario Cuomo's son and California, via a legislative Dem supermajority that is probably a year away from trying to finance light rail and socialized medicine by eliminating the middle class entirely.
It's all the more ironic in light of the Arpaio pardon. Sheriff Arpaio is being pardoned for following immigration law. Meanwhile two of the biggest states in the country are announcing that they won't.
And so now we have local sheriffs in New York and California announcing that they will defy illegal state orders and follow Federal law. And they're certain to get the Arpaio treatment.
This is a cold civil war. And it's only going to get worse as various tiers of authority battle between the law and lessness.