Posted on 08/19/2025 1:42:12 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The lawsuit argues these conditions overstep authority and interfere with policies ensuring victims can report crimes without fear of deportation.
A coalition of attorneys general from 20 states and Washington, D.C., is asking a federal judge to stop the U.S. Department of Justice from withholding federal funds earmarked for crime victims if states don't cooperate with the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts.
The lawsuit filed Monday in Rhode Island federal court seeks to block the Justice Department from enforcing conditions that would cut funding to a state or subgrantee if it refuses to honor civil immigration enforcement requests, denies U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers access to facilities or fails to provide advance notice of release dates of individuals possibly wanted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement because of their immigration status.
The lawsuit asks that the conditions be thrown out, arguing that the administration and the agency are overstepping their constitutional and administrative authority.
The lawsuit also argues that the requirements are not permitted or outlined in the Victims of Crime Act, known as VOCA, and would interfere with policies created to ensure victims and witnesses report crimes without fear of deportation.
"These people did not ask for this status as a crime victim. They don't breakdown neatly across partisan lines, but they share one common trait, which is that they've suffered an unimaginable trauma," New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said during a video news conference Monday, calling the administration's threat to withhold funds "the most heinous act" he's seen in politics.
The federal conditions were placed on VOCA funding, which provides more than a billion dollars annually to states for victims compensation programs and grants that fund victims assistance organizations. VOCA funding comes entirely from fines and penalties in federal court cases, not from tax dollars.
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If illegals don’t like whatever crime they think they have to deal with here and won’t report it out of some fear, then leave. Problem solved.
Would have a lot better chance if they stopped giving funds for that program unless the state proved that none of the recipients of those funds were here illegally.
So, the usual suspects. At least the battle lines are clear.
overstep authority
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So NOW they have a objection to that kind of thing ?
It’s THEIR FORTE !!
American citizens are victims of criminal foreigners violating U.S. immigration laws.
If foreign trespassers are afraid of being crime victims in the USA, they need to GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR COUNTRY !
They don’t need to be shielded to report crimes. They need to be BOOTED OUT OF THE USA !
That is exactly why they should be repatriated. Clearly they ain't safe here.
RE: So, the usual suspects. At least the battle lines are clear.
“The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast.”
More from my tagline.
Some judge will issue an injunction that will then be overturned once again. Count on it.
Personally, I want illegals to feel that they are unwelcome in any way and it is just hell on earth till they leave.
These funds, meant to help victims recover, have become a scam.
Illegal 1 stages a fake crime with Illegal 2 as the alleged victim. Illegal 2 gets protected status as a crime victim and splits the money with Illegal 1.
It’s become a racket.
Like the illegals that reverse into cars claiming they were rear-ended. Now they are a “victim,” get protected status, and sue for their “damages.”
I’ve seen similar scams against HOAs. Someone claims they were injured months before on the common area. Sometimes the carrier pays out just to make them go away.
There was a family milling around the gate of the community pool looking for someone to let them in. I confronted them, asked for their pool card, asked them what subdivision of the community they lived in, and they couldn’t answer/didn’t have a swipe card. I threw them out.
Some moron will call me a Karen, but my assessments don’t need to go up over a fraudulent insurance claim because some trespassers snuck into my community’s pool. No pay, no play.
Simple end run around that. Upon losing the case, agree to resuming payments, but insist that it must be claimed in person at the local ICE office, and your ID must be presented. Any illegal will still be paid... and immediately deported, with the claim money. There, problem solved.
The issue is trying to link things unrelated to this specific program - like providing ICE general access to various facilities, and providing ICE with the names of people about to be released - to continue receipt of those victim program funds.
Always strings and conditions to federal funds. Libsocs put their conditions on them, its the norm.
Overstepping const authority...?
Who’s in charge of proteft8ng borders and the flow,of people in and out of this country.
How is fedgov setting requirements for their funds to be used, overstepping their authority?
If it were me I’d have cut them off instantly for this and many other “reauirements” they aren’t meeting.
These “victim funds” probably shouldn’t exist in the first place.
I look at a wall as the first of (hopefully) many unwelcome signs.
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