This Country Is an Absolute Disgrace’: Michigan Mayor Explodes Over Border Patrol Handoff After Routine Traffic Stop

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. — A routine traffic stop in Sterling Heights has ignited a sharp rebuke from city leadership and reopened a growing national debate over local police cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

At a Jan. 20 City Council meeting, Michael C. Taylor, mayor of Sterling Heights, delivered an emotional condemnation of how three vehicle passengers were handled after a Jan. 9 traffic stop that resulted in the arrest of a driver on a federal felony warrant.

While Taylor acknowledged the stop itself was lawful, he said what followed crossed a line.

Passengers detained despite no criminal suspicion

According to the mayor, the three passengers were not suspected of any crime but were nonetheless asked to provide identification. Taylor said they were not legally required to do so, yet police described the practice as “proactive policing” meant to help officers identify potential criminals.

Taylor rejected that explanation outright.

“You can catch the bad guys by tricking people into thinking they have to give you their ID,” he said, adding that the practice relies on citizens not knowing their rights.

After identifying themselves, the passengers were held at the scene until U.S. Border Patrol arrived. They were then processed, placed into a van, and taken away.

“Our police officer held them there. Border Patrol came. They were processed. They were put into a van. They were detained. They were driven away,” Taylor told council members.

“Deliberately putting people in harm’s way”

The mayor said the incident forced him to reconsider Sterling Heights’ relationship with federal immigration agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security.

“When our police department hands people over to Border Patrol or ICE or Homeland Security, we are deliberately putting them in harm’s way,” Taylor said.

He accused federal immigration authorities of operating in ways that violate constitutional protections and instill fear in communities, arguing that Sterling Heights should not be aligned with agencies that, in his view, act in opposition to the city’s values.

“I don’t want to be in partnership with federal policing agencies who have been militarized to terrorize peaceful communities throughout this country,” he said.

Questioning all federal law-enforcement partnerships

Taylor went further, calling for an end to federal task-force partnerships that place Sterling Heights officers with agencies such as the FBI and the DEA. Even if such a move meant losing federal forfeiture funding, he said, the city’s priority should be keeping officers focused on local needs.

“I want those officers back in Sterling Heights working here,” he said.

A deeply emotional conclusion

The mayor closed his remarks with a blunt and deeply personal assessment of the moment.

“I’ve never been less proud of this country. I’ve never been less proud to be an American,” Taylor said. “I think that this country is an absolute disgrace. An absolute disgrace. And I’m sick of it.”

City officials have since begun reviewing police policies related to traffic stops, identification requests, and cooperation with federal agencies. Taylor acknowledged that additional changes may be needed to ensure residents feel safe interacting with local law enforcement — regardless of immigration status.

For Sterling Heights, the controversy has become more than a single traffic stop. It has sparked a broader reckoning over constitutional rights, policing practices, and whether local governments should draw firmer boundaries between community policing and federal immigration enforcement.

An Article About Safety For Women Leads To A War Of Words And Bullying By A Sterling Heights Michigan Mayor

Earlier today I wrote an article that confirms that Transgenders May Look Like Women But Are Really Men With Manly Desires.  The article was based on Bruce Jenner still being interested in women even though he was surgically altered to look like a woman from the waist up.  This exposed the dangers of allowing transgenders in to opposite sex restrooms and locker rooms.

Appointed Sterling Heights Mayor Michael Taylor

This raised the ire of current Sterling Heights Mayor Michael Taylor as you will see below from the screen captures.  He even went to far as to try to bully me by posting a picture of myself and my girlfriend who passed from cancer earlier this year.   

Michael Taylor became mayor of Sterling Heights by a fluke.  He was a sitting councilman last year and voted for this ordinance, but former Mayor Richard J. Notte died late last year after a battle with cancer.  Michael Taylor was not elected by the people but was appointed Mayor by the majority vote of the Sterling Heights City Council.

Last summer Sterling Heights, Michigan  passed a non-discrimination ordinance by vote of council and mayor.  The public did not have the opportunity to vote on this issue.  The law said it was to  protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents and visitors from discrimination in housing, public accommodations, and employment and carries a maximum fine of $500 for each violation. 

 There were more than a couple of issues with that ordinance.  The main two issues were it violated one's religious objection to behavior that went against their own beliefs.  

Christians as do Jews believe that God makes no mistakes.  God created man and God created woman.  Why should a business owner who is Christian have to violate his beliefs?  Is that itself discrimination?  

The other main issue is it put into play males and females freely going into each others bathrooms "public accommodations".  If a male decided to dress the part of a woman so he could fulfill his perverted fantasies, what would stop him?  As you will see from the screen shots below the Mayor Michael Taylor, who is an attorney by day, seems to think this is perfectly fine.  He questions whether a transgender had ever attacked a woman in a restroom before as he could not find any proof.  Since Mayor Taylor is an attorney would would have though he would have had better investigative skills.  

But to answer Mayor Taylor's answer, yes instances have occurred and common sense, which Mayor Taylor and much of the Sterling Heights City Council seems to be lacking, dictates it would.  It is human nature.

Here a just a few of many examples:

Jason Pomare

PALMDALE, Calif. (KTLA) — A 33-year-old man was charged Tuesday with allegedly dressing as a woman to secretly videotape women using the restroom at a Macy’s department store.
 Jason Pomare was arrested Saturday after a customer notified store security that a man was in the lady’s room acting suspiciously.
 The woman told security officers that the man was wearing a wig and was dressed as a woman.

 SAN DIEGO — Police Sunday arrested a 30-year-old man who was wearing a pink tutu when he allegedly attacked a woman in a toilet stall at a Big Lots store in Clairemont.
Investigators identified the suspect as Gregory Schwartz, who was arrested around 5:40 p.m. in the area of Clairemont Mesa Boulevard and Diane Avenue, San Diego police Lt. Chuck Kaye said.

About 40 minutes earlier, Kaye said, a woman who had entered a toilet stall in the Big Lots store at 4829 Clairemont Drive was “confronted by a male who had crawled under the stall she occupied.”

Surveillance video showed the man was wearing “a tutu-type thing” he took from the store, Kaye said.  “The suspect grabbed her and attempted to sexually assault her,” he said.

Toronto Canada -- A biological man claiming to be ‘transgender’ so as to gain access to and prey on women at two Toronto shelters was jailed “indefinitely” last week after being declared by a judge a “dangerous offender.”
 Christopher Hambrook, 37, leaned on the ever expanding legal “rights” offered to people who “identify” with the sex opposite their biology. Under the name “Jessica,” he was able to get into the women’s shelters, where he sexually assaulted several women.

One has to question Mayor Michael Taylor's judgement as to why he thinks this is not a concern.  Would he be concerned if a man went into the same restroom or locker room that his wife and children were currently in?  The myopic thinking of Sterling Heights leadership should be a concern for all Sterling Heights residents and those that come to the city to transact business or recreation.  Keep in mind, Freedom Hill is one such major attraction that draws thousands to many events. 

Below are the screen captures taken today of Sterling Mayor Michael Taylor's faulty logic and bullying form the Sterling Heights Politics Facebook Group:

As you see from the picture above Mayor Michael Taylor thought it would be cute to try to bully me by posting a picture of me and my deceased girlfriend, who passed this year from cancer.