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Justice Department Targets Local Officials Amid Immigration Enforcement Clash
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has instructed federal prosecutors nationwide to investigate state and local officials who interfere with the enforcement of federal immigration laws under the Trump administration, according to a memo obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.
The memo, authored by Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, directs prosecutors to pursue potential criminal charges in cases where state or local officials are found to have obstructed or impeded federal immigration operations. It also instructs the Justice Department’s civil division to identify state and local laws or policies that could hinder the administration’s immigration agenda and consider legal challenges to those measures.
Prosecutors are ordered to “take all steps necessary to protect the public and secure the American border” by removing individuals in the country illegally and prosecuting immigration-related crimes committed within U.S. jurisdiction, the memo states.
“Federal law prohibits state and local actors from resisting, obstructing, and otherwise failing to comply with lawful immigration-related commands and requests,” the memo says, adding that U.S. attorney’s offices and Justice Department litigators are expected to investigate such conduct for possible prosecution.
The three-page directive marks a sharp shift from enforcement priorities under the previous Democratic administration of President Joe Biden. It places federal prosecutors at the center of a broader effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to aggressively enforce immigration laws and combat border-related crime, including violent offenses, transnational gang activity, and drug trafficking.
Bove wrote that it is the Justice Department’s duty to defend the Constitution and lawfully implement the policies chosen by voters in electing President Trump. He emphasized that department employees are expected to enforce federal laws enacted by Congress and to defend the administration’s actions against legal challenges.
The memo also announces a return to a policy requiring prosecutors to pursue the most serious criminal charges supported by the evidence, limiting discretion to charge lesser offenses. According to the memo, the most serious charges include capital offenses where applicable and crimes carrying the highest mandatory minimum sentences.
Justice Departments routinely adjust enforcement priorities following a change in administration. The charging policy outlined in the memo mirrors directives issued under previous Republican attorneys general, including John Ashcroft and Jeff Sessions. Those policies were reversed under Democratic administrations, which emphasized prosecutorial discretion, including during the tenures of Attorneys General Eric Holder and Merrick Garland.
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Donald Trump's estranged niece, Mary, took California's leftie Governor Gavin Newsom's side in his trolling attacks on the president, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
Mary claims Newsom's wild missives on X mocking Trump are behind his "increasingly frantic behavior," and that the Commander-in-Chief must be "furious" about them.
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Even though Trump, 79, told Socialist New York Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamani that he doesn't care if he calls him a "fascist," Newsom taunting the president as "historically unpopular" was apparently a bridge too far, according to his niece.
“Newsom was absolutely right to call out Donald for being historically unpopular,” Mary cheered on her Monday, November 24, podcast.
Trump's estranged relative added, "He is the most historically unpopular president in modern history. But he is also the most historically inept, corrupt, vicious, cruel, and stupid.”
Mary is he daughter of Trump's late older brother, Fred Trump Jr., who died in 1981 at the age of 42. She was 16 at the time and claimed her uncle "abandoned" her side of the family.
She even seethed at Trump in the title of her 2020 memoir, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.
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Mary went on to scoff about her uncle, "Recently, he was described as demented and evil. Donald is beginning to have some small glimpses into the fact that more Americans are beginning to understand these things about him, which is why he is trying so hard to make sure Republicans retain control of the House in 2026."
Newsom, 58, did his part to help ensure Democrats take the House of Representatives in 2026 by holding a $250million California special election in early November to pass Prop 50. It gerrymandered away six longtime Republican seats and created ones that will now likely be won by Democrats, giving them a staggering 52-4 power advantage in Congress representing the Golden State.
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The state's voters had previously passed a 2010 constitutional amendment directing an independent panel to draw district lines rather than giving the power to politicians.
Newsom crowed in a barrage of pre-election TV ads how Prop 50 needed to pass to "stick it" to Trump and "save Democracy."
