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From NBC News: The Trump administration is directing the Justice Department to drastically boost its efforts on immigration enforcement, making it a top priority, according to a memo sent to staff by acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove on Tuesday night.
The memo issues a series of directives instructing Justice Department officials to prioritize identifying illegal immigrants and prosecuting immigration violations.
It also instructs officials to investigate for potential prosecution any state or local officials who resist the enforcement of federal immigration laws, and it directs the Civil Division to examine possible legal action against states or cities with laws barring officials from cooperating with immigration enforcement officers.
The directives are in keeping with Donald Trump’s campaign promises, and to some extent reflect the traditional change in policy direction when a different party takes control of the government. In 2020, after years of litigation, the Trump administration won the right to withhold funding from sanctuary cities, but was not in office for long after the ruling was issued.
The Trump administration is directing the Justice Department to drastically boost its efforts on immigration enforcement, making it a top priority, according to a memo sent to staff by acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove. https://t.co/c5Npy1rgll
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 22, 2025
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In the memo, Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, Trump’s former defense attorney, outlines “interim decisions and policy changes” pending the confirmation of Trump’s nominee for U.S. Attorney General, Pam Bondi. He said interim changes are necessary as an initial response to Trump’s executive orders regarding “three of the most serious threats facing the American people.”
Those threats, Bove wrote, are cartels and other transnational criminal organizations, such as Tren de Aragua (TdA) and La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), which “are a scourge on society resulting in an unstable and unsafe border and huge flows of illegal immigration in violation of U.S. law.” The memo said the second threat is how “brutal and intolerable violent crime by members of these organizations and illegal aliens is escalating rapidly across the country.” The third threat defined by Bove is how the “fentanyl crisis and opioid epidemic are poisoning our communities and have inflicted an unprecedented toll of addiction, suffering, and death.”
“The Justice Department must, and will, work to eradicate these threats,” Bove wrote. “Indeed, it is the responsibility of the Justice Department to defend the Constitution and, accordingly, to lawfully execute the policies that the American people elected President Trump to implement. The Justice Department’s responsibility, proudly shouldered by each of its employees, includes aggressive enforcement of laws enacted by Congress, as well as vigorous defense of the President’s actions on behalf of the United States against legal challenges. The Department’s personnel must come together in the offices that taxpayers have funded to do this vitally important work.”
The memo Acting AG Emil Bove sent out to DOJ staff overnight reiterating the Trump Administration’s tough stance on immigration enforcement. He warns state and local authorities against failing to comply with “lawful immigration-related commands.” pic.twitter.com/zmSdiuxE2B
— Ava Benny-Morrison (@avabmorrison) January 22, 2025
BREAKING: DOJ to investigate officials who obstruct Trump’s immigration enforcement, memo sayshttps://t.co/4STqPB8pv0 pic.twitter.com/MAlmEhy5MP
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 22, 2025
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