DOJ to Investigate State, Local Officials Who Block Immigration Enforcement
“…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 the laws.”
The Department of Justice told federal prosecutors to investigate state and local officials who obstruct immigration enforcement, according to a memo sent out by Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove.
“Federal law prohibits state and local actors from resisting, obstructing, and otherwise failing to comply with lawful immigration-related commands and requests, pursuant to, for example, the President’s extensive Article II authority with respect to foreign affairs and national security, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the Alien Enemies Act,” Bove wrote.
President Donald Trump signed executive orders designating cartels as federal terrorist organizations and ordered a crackdown on illegal immigration.
“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 reminded federal prosecutors. “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 the laws.”
Bove mentioned how the DOJ needs to step up its actions as directed by Trump in Executive Order “Protecting the American People Against Invasion.”
“Consistent with the core principle of pursuing the most serious, readily provable offense, U.S. Attorney’s Offices and other components shall pursue charges relating to criminal immigration-related violations presented by federal, state, or local law enforcement or the Intelligence Community,” stressed Bove.”
Bove directed each office to coordinate with the appropriate federal courts to tell them “of this interim policy and develop processes for handling the increased number of prosecutions that will result.”
Bove encouraged prosecutors to “charge and persue the most serious, readily provable offenses.”
“The most serious offenses are those punishable by death, where applicable, and offenses with the most significant mandatory minimum sentence and the most substantial recommendation under the Sentencing Guidelines,” he wrote.
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Long overdue.
Can we send these people to the same cells as J6 victims as a symbolic gesture?
Has anyone done anything to determine how much jail space will be required for crooked Dems?
First we have to clear those cells of political prisoners who have been pardoned, but the jails refuse to release.
Send in the federal marshals and arrest anyone who refuses to release these captives.
There are no prisoners whom “the jails refuse to release”. That is simply not happening.
As I understand it the President’s pardon only covered those who have been convicted; he did not pardon those awaiting trial, but merely ordered DOJ to drop the charges against them. That’s not automatic; it requires the prosecutor going to court, informing the judge that the case will not be proceeded with, and getting the judge to issue an order releasing them from custody. So it didn’t happen instantly, but is guaranteed to happen. But until the jail gets the court order, it can’t release the prisoner just because the warden saw something on TV.
If you simply arrest those obstructing legal fed actions for aiding and abetting, it should have a salutary effect.
I am so looking forward to these traitors being frog marched to Court to face their indictments. I am also looking forward to them being denied bail and being held in jail.
The local judges are usually complicit, so you’d have to take it to a federal court. And going into a bldg full of armed law enforcement to arrest armed individuals is….. problematic.
Use money first, every city and state gets fed money, shut off the money spigot if a blue city/county/state decides they can get along without fed law, they can get along without fed money.
Also ban them from fed law enforcement networks, no fingerprint/dna/arrest history access for you………
But those people have to go home sometime. Nothing like a 4 am awakening at their homes.
Start with funding. Then, if it can be proven that any individuals’ “sanctuary” action led to an illegal alien committing a crime for which the alien is convicted, then the individuals who took the “sanctuary” action can be prosecuted for the same crime under the Immigration and Nationality and the Alien Enemies Acts. They are complicit co-conspirators and subject to the same penalties and punishments for the original crime. A few trial of that type, plus a cut in funding, will shut down the sanctuary movement quickly.
Expand that investigation to all NGO and ‘charities’ that receive any federal funds.
1) What deportations? Haven’t heard anything on the news about criminal illegals leaving the country
2) Maybe these sanctuary types should familiarize themselves with
8 USC s1342 (B)(iv),..it’s a Federal death penalty offense if your bringing in or harboring an illegal alien results in death
No “sanctuary types” are bringing in or harboring anyone. They are exercising a constitutional right that has been a fundamental part of our legal system for 200 years, and threatening them for it is worse than anything those who support illegal aliens have done.
Oh, really? A bit over the top, even for you. Contrarianism gets obnoxious and counterproductive beyond a certain point, so be advised that your remnants of credibility are not inexhaustible, so don’t waste them!
Yes, really. Undermining a fundamental constitutional right is worse than simply entering a country illegally, or helping someone who does.
Remember that the entire structure of immigration law is on very shaky constitutional grounds. Nothing in the constitution authorizes Congress to regulate immigration at all, so a thoroughgoing originalist should be against it. The power was created by a supreme court that was far from originalist.
It is time individuals were held accountable for their actions.
Some of those being investigated should be arrested for aiding, abetting, harbouring criminal illegal aliens (or what ever shit The Man can get to stick).
I don’t understand deporting felons because many of them are already multiple crossers of our southern border. If they kill someone are they going to be just deported? Deportation is not what it once was so we need to crank up the gas chamber or injections to stop the recidivism.
Maybe drop them off in the wrong country with their offense tattooed to their forehead… oops we accidentally dropped them off on the Iran/Iraq border.
This is real “hope and change.” Not narcissist-incompetent-dunce, Obama’s, and, dotard/crime boss/puppet, Biden’s, incompetence, subversion and brazenly lawless facilitation/enabling/coddling of illegal aliens, their invasions and their predations.
Gavin Newsom is having a bad month.
This is simply not true. It is illegal for state and local officials to obstruct federal officers carrying out their lawful duties, but it is their absolute constitutional right to refuse to comply with “commands” (which the feds have no right to make) and requests. States have the absolute constitutional right to prohibit by law any state or local official giving federal officers any aid, including by disclosing information without a warrant.
If Bove proposes violating that constitutional right, he’s a bigger criminal than any of the illegal aliens he wants to deport.
In the 40 years that sanctuary cities and states have existed, not a single officer of such a city or state has been caught obstructing federal law enforcement, or aiding or abetting an illegal alien to evade capture.
If it were happening there would have been prosecutions, and we would know about it. The Massachusetts judge who did that was immediately prosecuted, and it was headline news everywhere. So if an official of a sanctuary city were caught doing the same they too would be prosecuted and we would know about it. The fact that nobody can cite such a case means it simply hasn’t happened and isn’t happening.
You keep saying that. It’s not true.
Judge charged with helping defendant escape ICE custody through back door of courthouse
You’re trimming your claim to move the goalposts. A judge did it. No one cares that she wasn’t “an official of a sanctuary city” because it doesn’t make a difference. She was a government actor.
Henry, it makes every difference in the world. We are discussing sanctuary cities and states, and what they do or don’t do. You are alleging that officials in those cities and states commit crimes by obstructing ICE and harboring aliens, and therefore they ought to be prosecuted for it. But this is just not true. They are not doing that at all. The fact that in 40 years NOT ONE CASE has been discovered proves it.
The fact that SOMEONE ELSE committed such a crime is irrelevant, but the fact that her case got so much publicity proves that had sanctuary city/state officials been doing the same their cases would have got publicity too.
It’s like accusing someone of murder, just because murders do happen. Yes, they happen, but the person you’re accusing hasn’t done one.
Investigate? Arrest the bastards and prosecute them. Enough already!
Arrest and prosecute them for what? If you don’t investigate you can’t possibly discover any crimes committed, and so you can’t arrest anyone.
Yeah, thought so. Your responses here are usually thoughtful and often illuminate certain aspects of issues in a creative way, but this obstruction topic seems to have struck a nerve, and therefore your arguments are veering into hyperbole. Take a deep breath and consider the logic. Reversing the argument sometimes helps with that, as you demonstrate quite effectively at times!
Really?! Tell me how you can arrest and prosecute someone if you don’t investigate them first. What do you arrest and prosecute them for? Even if they have committed some crime, you don’t know about it.