Trump Admin Sues NYC Over Sanctuary City Policies

The New York Times reports:

The Justice Department on Thursday sued Mayor Eric Adams, claiming that New York City’s immigration policies are hindering the Trump administration’s enforcement of the law, in an escalation of efforts to crack down on the country’s largest sanctuary city.

In a 37-page lawsuit filed in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, the Trump administration said the city’s policies had violated the supremacy clause of the Constitution, which it said gives the administration “well-established, pre-eminent and pre-emptive authority to regulate immigration.”

“New York City has long been at the vanguard of interfering with enforcing this country’s immigration laws,” the administration said in its suit. “Its history as a sanctuary city dates back to 1989, and its efforts to thwart federal immigration enforcement have only intensified since.”

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BREAKING: New York City’s sanctuary city policies are unconstitutional and make it harder for federal immigration officers to do their jobs, the US Justice Department says in a federal lawsuit filed. https://t.co/ozF0o1cPCw

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