{"id":37550,"date":"2025-01-22T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=37550"},"modified":"2025-01-22T19:41:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T01:41:49","slug":"doj-issues-memo-threatening-to-prosecute-officials-who-resist-immigration-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=37550","title":{"rendered":"DOJ issues memo threatening to prosecute officials who resist immigration crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A new Justice Department memo outlines the Trump administration\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/22\/us\/trump-deportation-plan-what-we-know-hnk\"><u>plans to challenge sanctuary city laws<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;by threatening to prosecute state and local officials who resist the federal immigration crackdown, according to a copy of the document obtained by CNN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The memo from acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove also says that federal prosecutors who decline to prosecute those immigration cases will be reported immediately the Justice Department for investigation and potential prosecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The three-page directive shows how the Trump team has spent weeks trying to craft memos that they hope have a better chance of withstanding legal challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFederal law prohibits state and local actors from resisting, obstructing and otherwise failing to comply with lawful immigration-related commands and requests,\u201d the memo reads. \u201cThe U.S. Attorney\u2019s Offices and litigating components of the Department of Justice shall investigate incidents involving any such misconduct for potential prosecution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The memo instructs the department\u2019s civil division to help identify state and local laws and policies that \u201cthreaten to impede\u201d Trump\u2019s immigration initiatives and to challenge those laws in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Bove\u2019s memo calls the changes interim policy guidance while the department awaits the confirmation of Pamela Bondi as attorney general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"mailto:?subject=Justice Department issues memo threatening to prosecute officials who resist immigration crackdown&amp;body=Checkout the latest news from CNN:%0Ahttps:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/trump-president-executive-actions-01-22-25%23cm6801ok200003b6r65u175q0\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/trump-president-executive-actions-01-22-25#cm6801ok200003b6r65u175q0\">cnn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Justice Department memo outlines the Trump administration\u2019s&nbsp;plans to challenge sanctuary city laws&nbsp;by threatening to prosecute state and local officials who resist the federal immigration crackdown, according to a copy of the document obtained by CNN. The memo from acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove also says that federal prosecutors who decline to prosecute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":37551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2029,1214,5762,1558,4479],"class_list":["post-37550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-doj","tag-immigration","tag-memo","tag-officials","tag-prosecution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37552,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37550\/revisions\/37552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}