Jim McDonnell and I would like to bow deeply and thank the uncharacteristically sensible Los Angeles Times for caring, by thunder, about the future of Mr. McDonnell’s soul and his professional life.

Having long ago sold theirs, the Times reserves ample space daily to fret over the souls of the wretches who have not sold out.

Top story in yesterday’s edition was what will happen to the quivering career of the Los Angeles County sheriff.

Confoundingly, Mr. McDonnell has joined a perceived minor coterie of Los Angeles officials opposing the “sanctuary state” bill believed to have been composed by Br’er Rabbit, Bugs Bunny or an Easter Bunny with rabies.

Once upon a time long ago, boys and girls, back in the forgotten 1980s and 1990s, it was deemed appropriate to arrest illegal aliens who sneak into our country without papers or good sense and pitch them back over the fence of their origination.

A cockeyed generation later, it is popularly deemed icky, as grownups say, nay, even distasteful, to apprehend illegal aliens and pitch them back over the fence. My golly, Mommy, who cares if they crawled like snakes into our country. Being sanctuary is being hip, baby. Get modern. You don’t want to bust up (criminal) families, do you?

That is quite a line of poison syrup loopy, sneaky liberals have seduced America with.

The naïve Times reporters argue with readers that since Sheriff McDonnell’s parents came here – uh, legally – a generation ago from Ireland, how in the crooked Obama world can he be opposed to Latin illegal aliens.

They are both immigrants, aren’t they?

No fool like his interlocutors, Mr. McDonnell believes that the sanctuary state bill – forbidding federal immigration agents from arresting illegal aliens being released from jail – will backfire.

If ICE guys can’t follow traditional rules, the sheriff says, they will have to go into communities and nail them.

Not only will they arrest “the individuals they are seeking but the people with them or other people in the area who are undocumented.”

Despite liberals’ strongest efforts, law and order, and a sheriff named McDonnell, still prevail in Donald Trump’s ever-improving America.