Posted on 01/22/2025 10:16:13 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Trump administration late Tuesday directed federal prosecutors nationwide to investigate and potentially prosecute state and local officials who don’t cooperate with the president’s plans to carry out the largest mass deportation campaign in U.S. history, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post.
In a memo to Justice Department employees, acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove wrote that the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution and other legal authorities, “require state and local actors to comply with the Executive Branch’s immigration enforcement initiatives.”
“Federal law prohibits state and local actors from resisting, obstructing, and otherwise failing to comply with lawful immigration-related commands,” wrote Bove, a former federal prosecutor who spent recent years in private practice and was one of Donald Trump’s defense lawyers in his criminal cases.
Bove ordered U.S. attorneys’ offices nationwide to “investigate incidents involving any such misconduct for potential prosecution,” including for harboring an immigrant in the United States illegally, failing to share information about a person’s immigration status with the federal government and conspiracy — crimes that carry potential prison terms upon conviction.
Any refusals to prosecute someone for “resistance, obstruction or other noncompliance” with commands or requests from U.S. immigration officers will be sent to the Justice Department as an “urgent” report, the memo says.
Bove’s directive, which responds to executive orders Trump signed on his first day in office Monday, is likely to face fierce blowback from legal advocacy groups and officials in cities and states led by Democrats. Those jurisdictions tussled with Trump over the issue during his first term.
Many lawyers say it is legal for state and local officials to stay out of most immigration enforcement. City officials in Chicago reaffirmed their refusal to cooperate with enforcement last week amid rumors of imminent immigration...
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Ill tell ya what.....
If this isn’t the biggest FAFO demonstration for the left that I have seen in my lifetime, I dont know what is.
It really is something to behold.
There really should be a federal law making sanctuary city behavior illegal on a national level.
Likewise there should be federal laws making fracking and drilling legal in all states.
The democrats are an evil group and we all know they get covered from their evil media allies. Their long-standing behavior is a threat to national security and our economy.
The ultimate solution is to legislate against it.
Lol.
Many actors have illegal aliens as servants—cheap labor.
they will ALL be big and tough..
Until the first one goes loses their ability to practice law, their pension, or is sent to prison
Can Trump please have the Atty General’s Office renamed back to Office of Atty General rather than that odious and misleading “Dept. of Justice” which makes it sound like it is a Judicial Branch function rather than an Executive Branch Prosecutor function? (The Left loves to blur the lines of the division of gov’t power because the Left wants centralized gov’t power.)
Please.
Thank you.
Need to see a mass perp walk of California politicians who obstruct deportations.
Well we voted for a good show, looks like we got it.
Did Trump FIRE ALL 100 US State Attorneys yet?
“potentially prosecute”
Way too many “potentially” in the article for my taste.
Cities should secretly cheering this move. Getting the illegals out of town will help those cities budgets. But the washing machine politicians will not agree!
Come to Tulsa, We need a good laugh.
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A leaked document.
From the article:
“Federal law prohibits state and local actors from resisting, obstructing, and otherwise failing to comply with lawful immigration-related commands, wrote" [the Acting Deputy Attorney General]
It appears all that has been needed is a president willing to honor his oath of office.;
Massacusetts, first.
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