A high-ranking Trump Justice Department official Tuesday ordered criminal investigations into state and local actors that obstruct federal immigration orders, according to an internal memo obtained by Bloomberg Law.
The message to all DOJ employees from the new acting deputy attorney general lays out a “newly established Sanctuary Cities Enforcement Working Group.” The project, which involves the Civil Division, will focus on identifying state and local laws that clash with executive branch immigration initiatives and to challenge those policies in court where appropriate, the memo said.
Emil Bove, who has been Trump’s criminal defense lawyer, was installed Jan. 20 as ...