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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No, the ultimate solution requires more drastic and permanent steps.
How do we have an acting assistant attorney general when we don’t even have an attorney general yet?
...that includes ALL of the Bill of Rights, including the 1st and 2nd Amendments!
...how did we have an acting president for 4 years?
There really should be a federal law making sanctuary city behavior illegal on a national level.
Not needed. Federal law always Trumps (lol) state/ county/city law.
Cities should secretly be publicly and loudly cheering this move.
There. Fixed it for you.
EXCELLENT. Start with the big mouthed, fatass governors and Soros AGs.
J-6’ers left them ALOT of OPEN JAIL CELLS.
This might deserve some attention:
“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“
Fierce blowback against basic constitutional law? Good.Let’s see how far that gets them. Ain’t gonna matter what some hand picked constitution hating leftist judge decrees.
It shouldn’t take more than a week or two to line up indictments for a bunch of California Officials.
The legal advocacy groups will be double busy. On one hand they will be trying to sue to stop a directive. On the other hand they will be defendants fighting to stay out of jail.
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MAGA In Action
Federal law prohibits state and local actors from resisting, obstructing, and otherwise failing to comply with lawful immigration-related commands.
“There really should be a federal law making sanctuary city behavior illegal on a national level.”
The big mistake was allowing it at all in the first place. It was NEVER legal.
Long overdue
been looking for a long time for a for a concise way to express that vital point )
(The Left loves to blur the lines of the division of gov’t power because the Left wants division of gov’t power or
Checks and Balances of any kind. )
cuz the left IS communism
NOT democracy
The Left loves to blur the lines of the division of gov’t power because the Left doesnt want division of gov’t power or
Checks and Balances of any kind. )
cuz the left IS communism
NOT democracy
FYI, constitutional America is not a democracy (centralized gov’t power based on majority population centers). America is a Republic (decentralized power and representative gov’t).
America needs to recover her Free Constitutional Republic.
But those cities are run by democrats, so they have to keep the lie going…..
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