Next time you encounter your favorite City Council member, ask him or her:

“May I have your public approval for periodically running a red light whenever I am late for an appointment.”

After ironing out the wrinkles on his horrified face, he will scold you for asking an absurd question.

Yes, Councilman, you will say, I agree with your judgment.

But surely carelessly running a red light is less offensive to society than grossly flaunting the law by sneaking into earth’s richest land as an illegal alien.

Mayor Jim Clarke, Vice Mayor Jeff Cooper, and fellow Council members Thomas Small, Meghan Sahli-Wells and Goren Eriksson essentially are being forced to endorse the once-bizarre notion of sanctuary cities when they are polled at the March 27 meeting.

How would you like to exchange positions with any of them?

Whose publicly stated position most closely mirrors yours?

Nearly everyone understands shielding friends about to be cornered by the law – even if they deliberately put themselves in this untenable position?

One-to-one relationship with an illegal alien is vastly different from a Council member publicly advocating the hiding thousands of illegal aliens from officers of the law.

The cooked-up formulation of “undocumented immigrant” is as deceitful as a raft of other phony liberal posturing:

• Denigrating coal and oil as “fossil fuels”
• Substituting “women’s health” for abortions
• Hurriedly replacing global warming with “climate change” when heavily warned warming fell on its steadily lengthening nose.

One of today’s stranger developments – quite unrelated to President Trump – is that sanctuary cities keep appearing even though polling consistently shows most Americans oppose them.

Meanwhile, City Council members have a month to ponder how they will publicly endorse lawbreaking by thousands of foreigners – illegal aliens — who tiptoed over the border.