The Trump administration instructed federal prosecutors to investigate and potentially prosecute local officials who don’t cooperate with deportation efforts. In response, the local officials in question made clear they’ll follow the law — but that’s it.
“You’re not going to see any elected officials that want to support criminals,” Chicago alderman Gilbert Villegas told NOTUS on Wednesday. “But you’re not going to intimidate me by threatening me with arrest.”
A new memo from acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, first reported by The Washington Post and independently obtained by NOTUS, instructs U.S. attorneys’ offices across the country to investigate and possibly charge local officials who have been “resisting, obstructing, and otherwise failing to comply with lawful immigration-related commands.”