The department published a list of jurisdictions on its website and said that each one will receive a formal notification aimed at local governments that violate some federal criminal law.
The Republican tycoon won the elections in November thanks in part to his promises to combat what he considers an “invasion” of migrants and proposes to expel all those who have entered illegally by the border.
During the administration of the Democrat Joe Biden (2021-2025), the Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported the meeting of more than 10 million undocumented people who entered the United States, thanks to the Democrat’s open border policy, an unprecedented figure.
Measures
As part of this initiative, Republicans want to take measures against the so -called “sanctuary cities”, which usually prohibit officials to inform federal agents about migrants in an irregular situation if they are at risk of being deported.
On April 28, Trump issued a decree in which he announced that “a list of local states and jurisdictions that obstruct the application of federal immigration laws” would be published.
“This is an insurrection without law against the supremacy of the federal law and the obligation of the federal government to defend the territorial sovereignty of the United States,” reads the decree.
This Thursday, the Department of Internal Security (DHS) published the list of more than 500 states, cities and counties, which it accuses of obstructing “deliberately and shamefully the application of federal immigration laws.”
The sanctuary jurisdictions, including cities, counties and states, which are deliberately and shamefully obstructing the application of federal immigration laws, endanger US communities. The sanctuary cities protect dangerous foreign criminals and endanger the forces of the order.
What cities
Cities such as San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas, New York, Santa Fe, Philadelphia, Chicago, Berwyn and New Orleans, among many others.
“These politicians of the ‘sanctuary cities’ are endangering Americans and our forces of the order to protect violent foreign criminals,” said the head of the DHS, Kristi Noem, cited in a statement.
The DHS demands that these jurisdictions “review and modify their policies immediately.”
Those that breach orders are exposed to lose federal financing.
“It is true that the federal government has exclusive jurisdiction on immigration, but nothing forces state or local governments to participate or cooperate” in the application of the Federal Imigration Law “because this” would require a law of the congress, “according to professors Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien, of the University of San Diego, and Loren Collingwood, of the University of New Mexico, on the Conversation.
During his first term, from 2017 to 2021, Trump tried to rescind federal subsidies of the “Sanctuary cities”. The case reached the Supreme Court, but the government of his successor, the Democrat Joe Biden, asked to be dismissed.
“We are exposing these sanctuary politicians who house illegal criminals and challenge the federal law. President Trump and I will always put the security of the first American people. The politicians of Sanctuary are in notice: they comply with the federal law,” warned the Secretary of National Security.
“Every aforementioned jurisdiction will receive a formal notification of its breach and all possible violations of the federal criminal statutes. DHS requires that these jurisdictions review and immediately modify their policies to align with federal immigration laws and renew their obligation to protect US citizens, not the dangerous illegal,” says the DHS statement.
