The administration of President Donald Trump, clearly expecting pushback to immigration enforcement from Democrat-run states and cities, has issued a new memo meant to ensure their compliance.
Emil Bove, acting deputy attorney general at the Justice Department, wrote in a memo to staffers Tuesday that the supremacy clause of the Constitution requires “state and local actors to comply with the Executive Branch’s immigration enforcement initiatives,” according to a copy of the memo obtained by The Washington Post.
“Federal law prohibits state and local actors from resisting, obstructing, and otherwise failing to comply with lawful immigration-related commands,” Bove wrote.
The new orders to Justice Department staffers mean that state and local officials who resist the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement could be charged with crimes and possibly
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