Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bowe, who has traveled to Chicago to oversee one of the Trump administration’s first immigration enforcement operations, said on Sunday that an agent from the Department of Justice would be among the immigration enforcement agents. to address a “national emergency”.
The Trump administration has vowed to ramp up deportation efforts, and various law enforcement agencies within the Justice Department — the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Listed by US Marshals. Helping these efforts in Chicago and elsewhere.
Mr. Bowe said in a written statement that he had deployed agents from the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security into lock phase “to address the national emergency arising from four years of failed immigration policy.” The Department of Justice, he added, was “working to secure the border, stop this attack and make America safe again.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement that federal agencies in Chicago have stepped up “to enforce U.S. immigration law and protect public safety and national security by keeping potentially dangerous criminal aliens out of our communities.” Target operations are “initiated.”
Mr Bowe urged local officials to help with the effort, warning there could be consequences for those who don’t.
“We will support everyone at the federal, state and local levels who join this important mission to take back our communities,” he said. “We will use all available tools to remove obstructions and other illegal obstacles to our efforts to protect the homeland.”
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that his state is working with federal authorities on undocumented immigrants convicted of crimes or pending deportation. will cooperate in deportation with the orders of But he emphasized that state law enforcement agencies will not participate in targeted state raids or profile people who may be undocumented.
Mr. Pritzker also said there was no new legal basis for the memo Mr. Bowe issued last week indicating that the department could investigate and prosecute officials in any jurisdiction that crackdown on deportations. I refuse to help. “They’re just putting it out there because they want to threaten everybody,” he said.
Immigration enforcement is a day-to-day feature of the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees agencies including ICE. But the Trump administration has vowed to devote more Justice Department officials to the effort because it requires more aggressive action.
Mr. Bowe, who was part of Mr. Trump’s defense team in his Manhattan criminal trial, is now overseeing much of the day-to-day activity of the department as the Senate moves toward a confirmation vote on Pam Bondi, Mr. Trump’s lawyer. is underway The general is expected to vote on his nomination this week.
Hamid Alizez And Minho Kim Contributed to reporting.
