News Nation host Chris Cuomo praised Attorney General Pam Bondy on Thursday for how it halted Department of Justice (DOJ) funding for the Sanctuary City.
Shortly after being sworn in as US Attorney General on Wednesday, Bondi was Memo To suspend federal grants managed by the DOJ, they manage to areas that refuse to cooperate with Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE). Cuomo,PBD PodcastsThe fact that Bondi’s orders included a 60-day hiatus in reviews to determine how to proceed was “intelligent.” (Related: Secretary of State Marco Rubio wins a big victory for Daichu ini-china during his first foreign trip)
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“This is… a very intelligent position for her. The way she expressed it shows why she was – of course [former Attorney General nominee] Matt Getz, she’ll be a much easier course of choice — but her position is intelligence,” Cuomo said. “She doesn’t even say that [border czar Tom] Homan is… she is a good lawyer, Pam Bondy. ”
Bondi also called for “enforcement action” against sanctuary jurisdictions that obstruct justice and hinder federal immigration operations, saying that such actions pose a threat to security and national security. Ta.
“She knows why the sanctuary city started. They didn’t start like it is now, so they’ve got staff in the way the ice provides funds and do the work they need to do. The municipality was being blocked because it wasn’t there,” Cuomo added. “So you’re going to get these illegal entrants? And you couldn’t get them because the ice came together and got them, so you really had to hold them for a long time. And these municipalities began to sue, and they had held people so long that they were losing. And that was the birth of it.”
“What it did was open hostility to existing policies. They would lose… states can’t stop federal law from being executed, so federal law said, “We’re “If you’re trying to get it,” then if it’s now, you can’t say no,” he continued. “If that’s the case, you’ll lose your federal funds. You’ll lose in court. And this is easy and Bondi does it the right way. She’s totally It’s not just a blanket. She says, “I see each of them. I see why they’re doing what they’re doing, and then we continue.”
Shortly after President Donald Trump began his second term, the DOJ established a working group to identify, investigate sanctuary cities across the country and pursue legal action where necessary. While local and state officials have been forced to participate in federal immigration issues, the Trump administration has warned that blatant obstruction violates the law and is unacceptable.
DOJ filed a lawsuit against Chicago, Cook County and Illinois on Thursday over a sanctuary policy that restricts cooperation between local officials and ICE. The DOJ argued that a federal judge declared parts of the Sanctuary Act unconstitutional, and that the policy was blocking federal immigration officials.
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