Quick Hit: Trump admin. puts Sanctuary cities and sheriffs on notice
Slow motion invasion at southern border and across U.S. coming to an end
The slow-motion invasion of the U.S. southern border under the Biden administration has come to an end with new directives coming out of the Trump administration's Department of Justice (DOJ) are putting sanctuary jurisdictions on notice.
The DOJ has issued directives to its prosecutors to investigate state and local officials for potential obstruction of immigration enforcement under the Trump administration, per an internal memo that was first made public by the Associated Press.
Jurisdictions that have sanctuary policies, as well as law enforcement officials who refuse to cooperate with ICE, that impede federal immigration actions are the main focus of the memo, issued by acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove. The memo is based on numerous executive orders issued by President Trump in his first day in office.
"Declination decisions with respect to resistance, obstruction, or other non-compliance with lawful immigration-related commands and requests from federal authorities shall be disclosed as Urgent Reports pursuant to Justice Manual § 1-13.130," Bove wrote. "Finally, laws and actions that threaten to impede Executive Branch immigration initiatives, including by prohibiting disclosures of information to federal authorities engaged in immigration-enforcement activities, threaten public safety and national security."
Bove also wrote that "The Civil Division shall work with the newly established Sanctuary Cities Enforcement Working Group, within the Office of the Associate Attorney General, to identify state and local laws, policies, and activities that are inconsistent with Executive Branch immigration initiatives and, where appropriate, to take legal action to challenge such laws."
Bove's memo is very similar to actions by Trump's DOJ during his first term.
In 2017, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo limiting funding to police departments who didn't cooperate with ICE. One of the first acts of now former Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland was to rescind the Sessions memo.
In his first days in office Trump issued multiple orders dealing with immigration and the southern border and he also removed internal interference and has ordered the reassignment a slew of "career" DOJ officials to other roles.
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