Clay Waters just demonstrated for us how PBS and reporters like Minnesota-based Fred de Sam Lazaro sound like lobbyists for illegal immigrants. This is so-called "public" broadcasting, which until recently was subsidized by American taxpayers. The same thing is happening at National “Public” Radio. On Thursday’s Morning Edition, they aired a story under the online headline “Blue cities in red states debate over how to respond to efforts to resist ICE.” Democrats want to resist any attempt to deport people, and that’s the only people Austin-based reporter Mose Buchele talked to for this report. NPR host Steve Inskeep introduced it: “In many Republican-led states, police officers are required to cooperate with federal immigration agents. [Horrors!] And that leaves liberal cities in those conservative states debating how to respond when they don't want to spend time on immigration enforcement.” In other words, they don’t want any immigration enforcement. A state law (that the Left hates) prohibits police departments from telling officers they cannot contact federal immigration agents. The reporter explained: MOSE BUCHELE:  In Texas, state police are empowered to arrest suspected unauthorized immigrants. Many counties partner with ICE to get grants and funding. Those agreements will become mandatory for all counties by the end of the year. And [Austin police chief Lisa] Davis said Texas cities cannot prevent local officers from calling ICE if they see fit. LISA DAVIS: There is a rule of law that I have to follow as the chief of police here in the state of Texas. But what we can do... (BOOING) Leftists booing the "rule of law"? It depends on what the meaning of the "rule of law" is, apparently. Davis ends up sounding like the most right-leaning speaker in the piece.  BUCHELE: It was a tense evening. On one side, local officials explaining that breaking state law could lead to cuts to funding or them getting removed from office, on the other side, many in the audience calling for resistance, no matter the cost. Robert Saulter is a criminal defense lawyer who was one of the most vocal that night. ROBERT SAULTER: There is nothing that prevents this police chief, these city council members from refusing to cooperate with the state. BUCHELE: Heated public debates like this have also erupted in San Antonio, Dallas and Houston. Democratic cities in Tennessee, Georgia and Florida are also seeing locals push back against red state laws that mandate ICE-police partnerships. Later, NPR explains that Davis can't tell her officers not to contact ICE, but she can encourage "higher-ups" to release illegal immigrants before ICE arrives. BUCHELE: Officers can still contact ICE. But the new rules will give police higher-ups a say in whether they can hold people until ICE arrives to arrest them. DAVIS: And I can tell you, the priority is not waiting for ICE to respond on a civil detainer. BUCHELE: Officials think it's a way to thread the needle between local priorities [amnesty/sanctuary] and state law. But after the event, immigrant advocate Carmen Zuvieta said it won't help people who fear deportation feel any better about calling the police for help. CARMEN ZUVIETA: (Speaking Spanish). BUCHELE: "To gain confidence, you have to earn it. And nothing they're doing is giving us confidence," she said. For NPR News, I'm Mose Buchele in Austin. That ending is a chef-kiss of anti-ICE bias -- the dissatisfied leftists get to chew out the local cops in Spanish, and no one cringes at the notion that immigration policy is being run by people who don't feel the need to speak English. No one identifies leftists as leftists. They get generically positive descriptions like "immigrant advocate." It turns out Zuvieta is with the "Austin Sanctuary Network" -- and this meeting didn't happen this week! Buchele reported this story for Austin NPR station KUT on February 6.  Nowhere in this entire story on leftists pressuring the blue-city cops is any quote or argument from a Republican, from Gov. Greg Abbott on down. Their principle: Who needs both sides of the public on a "public" radio show?