WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's administration has directed US prosecutors to criminally probe local officials who resist immigration enforcement efforts, intensifying a sweeping crackdown that Trump launched the day he took office.
Migrants deported from the US wave while walking towards a van of the Mexican National Migration Institute , at El Chaparral border crossing, in Tijuana, Mexico Jan 22, 2025.WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's administration has directed US prosecutors to criminally probe local officials who resist immigration enforcement efforts, intensifying a sweeping crackdown that Trump launched the day he took office.
During Trump's first 2017-2021 term in office, many Democratic officials refused to co-operate with his enforcement efforts, and some vowed to defy him again. It has already passed the Senate with Democratic support and now heads to Trump's desk to be signed into law. Trump has separately taken aim at federal diversity programmes, ordering agencies to put officials overseeing diversity, equity and inclusion programmes on leave by Wednesday and to shut down DEI offices by the end of the month.
The poll, which surveyed adults nationwide on Jan 20-21, found 58 per cent of respondents agreed that the US should "dramatically reduce the number of migrants allowed to claim asylum at the border," while 22 per cent disagreed.State and local officials who resist or obstruct immigration enforcement could be charged under federal laws against defrauding the US or harbouring immigrants who are in the US unlawfully, according to the Justice Department memo.
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