The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass, and the Los Angeles City Council, accusing the city of enacting policies that interfere with federal immigration enforcement. The suit targets Los Angeles’s “sanctuary city” laws, which the DOJ says were adopted shortly after President Trump’s reelection and are illegal under federal law.
According to the compliant, Los Angeles’s refusal to cooperate with federal immigration authorities contributed to recent outbreaks of lawlessness, rioting, looting, and vandalism so severe that federal forces, including the California National Guard and U.S. Marines, were deployed to restore order.
“Sanctuary policies were the driving cause of the violence, chaos, and attacks on law enforcement that Americans recently witnessed in Los Angeles,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said. “Jurisdictions like Los Angeles that flout federal law by prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens are undermining law enforcement at every level – it ends under President Trump.”
U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli of the Central District of California added:
”Today’s lawsuit holds the City of Los Angeles accountable for deliberately obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration law. The United States Constitution’s Supremacy Clause prohibits the City from picking and choosing which federal laws will be enforced and which will not. By assisting removable aliens in evading federal law enforcement, the City’s unlawful and discriminatory ordinance has contributed to a lawless and unsafe environment that this lawsuit will help end.”
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