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Trump steps up immigration crackdown, warns city, state officials against interference
Reuters ^ | Jan 22, 2025 | Sarah N. Lynch, Andrew Goudsward and Gabriella Borter

Posted on 01/22/2025 8:58:32 PM PST by fluorescence

President Donald Trump's administration has directed U.S. prosecutors to criminally probe local officials who resist immigration enforcement efforts, intensifying a sweeping crackdown that Trump launched the day he took office.

In a memo seen by Reuters, Trump's acting deputy attorney general, Emil Bove, told Justice Department staff that state and local authorities must cooperate with the immigration crackdown and federal prosecutors "shall investigate incidents involving any such misconduct for potential prosecution."

The Justice Department could also challenge laws that complicate the effort, Bove wrote.

The policy was issued as the new Republican administration prepared to step up policing of illegal immigration in cities with significant migrant populations, setting up potential confrontations with local officials in so-called sanctuary cities such as New York and Chicago that limit cooperation with such efforts.

The new memo underscored how Trump's Justice Department may try to back his immigration agenda by expanding threats of criminal charges beyond immigrants or those who employ them to city and state officials. It is the latest in a series of executive actions Trump has taken to curb illegal immigration, his top priority.

During Trump's first 2017-2021 term in office, many Democratic officials refused to cooperate with his enforcement efforts, and some vowed to defy him again.

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State and local officials who resist or obstruct immigration enforcement could be charged under federal laws against defrauding the U.S. or harboring immigrants who are in the U.S. unlawfully, according to the Justice Department memo.

Prosecutors who opt not to file criminal charges will need to explain their reasoning to superiors, the memo said.

The department this week also reassigned close to 20 career officials, transferring some to a new unit aimed at stopping sanctuary cities from resisting Trump's immigration plans, two sources said.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; andrewgoudsward; deportation; gabriellaborter; harboring; illegalimmigration; illegals; misconduct; obstruction; sabotage; sanctuarycities; sanctuarystates; sarahnlynch; trump

1 posted on 01/22/2025 8:58:32 PM PST by fluorescence
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To: fluorescence
Buy-DUNG brayed for four years:

"No one is above the law".

The "sanctuary city" officials are about to find out.

WINNING!

2 posted on 01/22/2025 9:03:32 PM PST by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: fluorescence

Happy Trumpmas!


3 posted on 01/22/2025 9:03:48 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: fluorescence

For Reuters, this isn’t bad.


4 posted on 01/22/2025 9:10:57 PM PST by Luke21
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To: Luke21

No kidding.

Twilight zonish.


5 posted on 01/22/2025 9:13:40 PM PST by pghoilman (Earth First. We'll drill the rest of the galaxy later.)
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To: fluorescence

it’s a crime to harbor illegal aliens bump!


6 posted on 01/22/2025 9:24:31 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: fluorescence

Ted Turner, the leftist bipolar husband of Hanoi Jane Fonda, had the motto: Lead. Follow. Or Get Out of the Way.

This is the time for Get Out of the Way.


7 posted on 01/22/2025 9:38:20 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Luke21

“In a memo seen by Reuters,”
Someone at DoJ leaked the memo to Reuters?


8 posted on 01/22/2025 9:40:48 PM PST by rxh4n1 ( oncern fo)
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To: fluorescence

I think Trump learned lots of stuff during first term. He appears to be keeping up the pressure giving little time for the “resisters” to formulate any cogent response or any political plot. I hope he keeps it up every day....if he lowers our taxes by collecting tariffs, and increasing manufacturing jobs in u.s...that would be good....He did mention that he would eliminate taxes on SS payments...or at least cut them...that’s gonna be good if he does.
If healthy and there is a republican pres. next term...he needs to be in the cabinet...or even in HR or Senate...


9 posted on 01/22/2025 9:51:01 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder tro find. )
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To: Getready

The big lesson is that keep the base energized. That will be critical for the midterms, because we’re going to need bigger GOP margins in Congress.


10 posted on 01/22/2025 9:52:06 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: fluorescence

What have they been screaming at us for years? No one is above the law?

I think they mean, “No one is above the law but us and our friends.”


11 posted on 01/22/2025 10:44:59 PM PST by Tzimisce ( )
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To: fluorescence

There is order and there is chaos.
The day the border was allowed to be trampled on, and invasion resulted, was when order was overtaken with chaos.
In our history, there are years of records of every person who came to this land.. when they came, where from and where they were going..and more.
Our great nation was built with immigrants. But done with order. The democrats, with wrong intent, turned order into chaos. And now today, to fix the mess, go back to where the chaos began, and do it RIGHT!!
You can’t take the chaos they created, and turn it into success!


12 posted on 01/23/2025 2:54:07 AM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: fluorescence

Score!


13 posted on 01/23/2025 4:01:38 AM PST by NeverTyranny
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To: fluorescence

Has Reuters found the FOUNTAIN OF TRUTH???

They are saying the right things...AND STILL I DON’T TRUST THEM


14 posted on 01/23/2025 4:02:32 AM PST by Maris Crane
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To: Getready

In the words of Obama....” Elections have CONSEQUENCES!”.....


15 posted on 01/23/2025 7:03:09 AM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: fluorescence

“Emil Bove, told Justice Department staff that state and local authorities must cooperate with the immigration crackdown and federal prosecutors “shall investigate incidents involving any such misconduct for potential prosecution.”

Mayor Brandon and Governor Creosote should both be in handcuffs by close of business today.

L


16 posted on 01/23/2025 7:05:31 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: fluorescence
United States Code, Title 8, Chapter 12 clearly defines the long standing laws about immigration enforcement. Plus, the USSC has more than once designated that only the Fedgov has authority regarding immigration laws.

Title 8 USC, Chapter 12

17 posted on 01/23/2025 9:06:52 AM PST by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: fluorescence
AOC has a brain fart


18 posted on 01/23/2025 12:30:13 PM PST by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads & Curmudgeons)
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To: spokeshave
Meanwhile deportations continue apace

PDJT at the controls.....and a minor relative gives the order


19 posted on 01/23/2025 12:34:49 PM PST by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads & Curmudgeons)
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