The Trump administration continued the city of New York Thursday about its “sanctuary” laws, continuing an effort of several months to suppress the localities that try to protect undocumented immigrants from federal detention efforts.
“New York City has released thousands of criminals on the streets to commit violent crimes against law -respecting citizens because of the policies of the sanctuary city. If New York does not defend the security of its citizens, we will do it”, ” The Attorney General Pam Bondi said.
Included in Trump’s efforts to considerably reduce the flow of illegal immigration to the United States was a concerted effort of its administration to suppress so-called sanctuary jurisdictions, described as states, cities, counties or municipalities that adopt laws that effectively prevent local officials from cooperating with federal immigration authorities.
The administration allegedly alleged that the policies of the city of the New York sanctuary “hamper the ability of the federal government to enforce federal immigration laws” and “violate the supremacy clause of the Constitution”.
“New York City has long been the avant-garde to interfere with the application of immigration laws in this country.
Trump’s Ministry of Justice, on the other hand, said that city immigration policies had the “goal” and “the effect” to make more difficult for federal immigration agents to pay their responsibilities.
“These provisions intentionally hamper the sharing of the information envisaged and protected by the affirmative by the congress, including the sharing of basic information such as the release dates, the dates of appearance and the status of guard,” said the complaint.
Among the accused appointed in the costume are the mayor of New York, Eric Adams,; The president of the municipal council Adrienne Adams, former candidate for the town hall; And police commissioner Jessica Tisch.
In the trial, deposited in the Oriental District of New York, the administration asks the court to declare that the laws of the city violate the supremacy clause and are therefore invalid. The administration also asked the court to definitively prohibit the departments and the city officials to enforce the policies of the city of the sanctuary.
Mayor Adams had sought to establish a friendly relationship with administration officials, meet Trump’s “border tsar” Tom Homan, before Trump’s inauguration to discuss what he called a common goal to withdraw violent immigrants from the city. Adams went so far as to publicly relieve a bill which would make certain parts of the policies of the city sanctuary go back to better allow cooperation with the federal government, a decision which would ultimately be on the municipal council to adopt.
Despite early awareness, Homan has sharpened his attacks on New York, which he described as “the largest sanctuary city in this country”, after a customs and border protection agent on leave and borders was shot down in the city. Several managers of the Trump administration, including Homan and the Secretary of Internal Security, Kristi Noem, assigned the shooting towards the policies of the city’s sanctuary. City officials owned a person of interest and said the shooting was an attempted theft that did not seem to be linked to the victim’s work.
“Sanctuar cities are now our priority. We are going to flood the area,” said Homan on Monday. “The sanctuary cities have therefore obtained exactly what they do not want: more agents in the community and more agents on the site.”
Adams said he would “examine the trial” in a statement on X which also reiterated his support for the review of local immigration orders.
“We support the essence of local laws set up by the municipal council – but I have also been clear that they go too far when it comes to dealing with these violent criminals in our streets and that we have urged the Council to re -examine them to ensure that we can work effectively with the federal government to make our city safer,” said Adams. “Until now, the council has refused.”
A spokesperson for the municipal council said in a statement that the city’s legal department was examining the trial.
“Pam Bondi may want to distract reality, but the facts are clear: evidence systematically show that cities with laws on the sanctuary are safer than those without them,” said the spokesperson. “When residents feel comfortable to report crime and cooperate with local police, we are all safer, which the Republican mayors and Democrats in New York have recognized. It is the Trump administration which targets people without discernment at the hearings of the civil courts, holding high school students and separating families who make our city and our country less safe.”
The city’s correctional service, the city’s probation service and the police service did not immediately respond to requests for comments.
In the two presidential terms, Trump threatened to retain the federal funds of the jurisdictions of the sanctuary and continue the state or local officials which hinders the application measures to degrees of various success.
In January, Trump signed a executive decree Ordering Noem and Bondi to ensure courts of the sanctuary “do not receive access to federal funds” and consider pursuing criminal or civil sanctions if the localities “interfere with the application of federal law”.
A federal judge in April blocked the effort to retain federal fundsnoting that Trump’s order violated the principles of separation from the powers of the Constitution. The same judge blocked a similar effort from Trump in 2017.
The administration continued New York State this year about its “green light law”, which allows the ministry of motor vehicles to issue driving licenses to undocumented immigrants and limits the sharing of related data with the federal immigration authorities. In addition, the law obliges State officials to inform license holders at the request of their information. The Ministry of Justice seeks to declare illegal and unexpected law.
In addition to New York, the Trump administration has targeted other democratic communities on policies which it alleges to hinder the ability of the federal authorities to apply immigration laws.
Administration continued the state Illinois and the city of Chicago in February, seeking to block the application of a law which prohibits organizations in the application of state laws and local to help the federal government to apply civil immigration in the absence of a criminal mandate.
In June, the administration continued the city of Los Angeles During his immigration laws, arguing that they interfere and discriminate federal agents by dealing with them differently from other law enforcement agents in California by restricting access to individual property and detainees. In The costume, The administration highlighted the laws as being behind recent clashes Between federal immigration officials and demonstrators in Los Angeles last month.