DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Trump administration is now criminally investigating sanctuary jurisdictions and will take legal action against any city or state that is in violation of federal laws.
The Department of Justice has established a Sanctuary Cities Enforcement Working Group that is tasked with identifying state and local laws or policies that are “inconsistent” with federal immigration initiatives and, when necessary, challenging those laws in court, according to a Tuesday DOJ memo obtained by Bloomberg. The directive marks a dramatic escalation in the fight between the Trump administration and Democrat-led sanctuary cities opposed to immigration enforcement.
“The Supremacy Clause and other authorities require state and local actors to comply with the Executive Branch’s immigration enforcement initiatives,” according to a section of the internal…
