U.S. Department of Justice sues New York City over sanctuary city laws
The Ministry of Justice has filed a complaint against New York, contesting its laws on the city of the sanctuary.
He comes less than a week after a leave A customs and border patrol agent was shot in Manhattan by an undocumented immigrant. On Thursday, the Doj charged two suspects, alleging that they are nationals of the Dominican Republic in the United States illegally. Police sources told CBS News New York that NYPD thought that suspects are associates of the Trinitarios gang.
The interior security secretary Kristi Noem and the border tsar Tom Homan were furious After filming, with Homan promising to “flood the area” with immigration agents Go after undocumented immigrants, especially those who have history of violence.
“Sanctuous cities are sanctuaries for criminals, a difficult stop,” said Homan.
Laws on the City of the Sanctuary
Homan expressed his irritation with sanctuary citiesIn particular New York, at the White House on Thursday, a few hours before the Ministry of Justice continues the mayor Eric Adams, the president of the municipal council Adrienne Adams, the police commissioner Jessica Tisch and others for having made more difficult for immigration agents to arrest undocumented immigrants who commit crimes.
“The disputed provisions of the New York law reflect the intentional efforts of the city to hinder the application of the United States of the Federal Immigration Act, by (among many others) hampering the consultation and communication between federal and local officials of the application of laws that are necessary in the United States to enforce the law and ensure the security of the Americans”, the continuation of the prosecution.
“New York has released thousands of criminals on the streets to commit violent crimes against law -respecting citizens due to policies in the sanctuary city,” said Prosecutor General Pam Bondi. “If New York does not defend the security of its citizens, we will.”
New York Immigration Coalition qualified the frivolous trial.
“Sanctuary policies simply say to all New Yorkers, whatever your immigration status, that if you are the victim of a crime or attend a crime, do not hesitate to go to the police,” said Murad Awawdeh, president and chief executive officer. “The localities as well as the States have the right to create policies and laws which ensure their security constituencies, and this is what our sanctuary policies do.”
Federal officials have been particularly upset that The municipal council went to court to stop An executive decree issued by the Adams administration to allow us immigration and customs agents to work on Rikers IslandWhere they could identify undocumented immigrants who can be illegally in the country and have committed crimes.
“We are going to flood the areas”
“I made a statement the other day on New York. We are going to flood the areas. Sanctuous cities will get exactly what they don’t want, no more agents in communities and more work work.” Says Homan.
The town hall responded with the following declaration:
“The work of a mayor is to protect the security of each person in his city – and that is exactly what mayor Adams worked every day for almost four years. Keeping the safety of New Yorkers also means ensuring that they feel safe, and the mayor Adams was clear: no one should be afraid to hide from 911, to send their children to school, or to go to the hospital, and no New Yorker should be forced to hide them in Subjects.
The action of the doj was applauded not only by the representative of Staten Island, Nicole Malliotakis, but by the Caucus of common sense of the municipal council.
The Trump Administration continues to put pressure on the laws on the city of the sanctuary
One of the first directives of Bondi after taking oath as a prosecutor general focused on the jurisdictions of the sanctuary. It issued an end -of -funding order to everything that “illegally interferes with federal law operations” and has encouraged the ministry to pursue implementing measures against sanctuary cities or states that do not comply with the federal government’s immigration efforts.
The Trump administration has again targeted sanctuary cities After the protests against the policy of “accelerated removals” of the ICE and the governor of New York Kathy Hochul testified before the Congress on the policies of the State sanctuary.
