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Trump’s War on Immigrants Has Become an Attack on Us All [1]
['Matt Ford', 'Greg Sargent', 'Michael Linhorst', 'Jonathan Van Harmelen', 'Matthew Zuras', 'Malcolm Ferguson', 'Edith Olmsted']
Date: 2025-04-25
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has also gone on multiple highly publicized raids with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents, often in the same gear that they wear. In at least one instance, she brought along a right-wing influencer to promote them. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that some ICE officials were “rankled” by her presence at a raid in New York City, one that apprehended fewer immigrants than its planners had hoped. It nonetheless served the goal of making the administration’s tactics as visible as possible.
Carrying out raids in large cities has both practical and propagandistic implications. Mass deportations are more feasible when local authorities cooperate with federal immigration officials. That cooperation has to be voluntary: Federal officials generally cannot conscript or compel state officials to help them enforce federal laws without violating a constitutional rule known as the anti-commandeering doctrine. At the same time, the federal government can welcome voluntary cooperation, as the Trump administration has done with state officials and local sheriffs in sympathetic jurisdictions like Florida.
In sanctuary cities and states, where officials have avoided helping immigration officials for public safety reasons, Trump signed an executive order on Inauguration Day that instructed the attorney general and the secretary of homeland security to “evaluate and undertake any other lawful actions, criminal or civil, that they deem warranted based on any such jurisdiction’s practices that interfere with the enforcement of federal law.” It also directed them to ensure that “so-called ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions” do not receive federal funds “to the maximum extent possible under law.”
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