Trump’s DOJ Takes Aim at New York Over Immigration Rules
As part of Donald Trump’s sweeping changes to solve the immigration crisis, he promised not only mass deportations but a crackdown on so-called liberal “sanctuary cities.” Keeping to that promise Trump Department of Justice is taking aim at deep-blue New York state over its immigration policies.
Trump’s newly installed attorney general Pam Bondi is suing New York state, accusing Empire State officials of choosing “to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens.”
Standing in front of federal agents who have been tasked with helping in Trump’s immigration crackdown, Bondi vowed the justice department would take on communities that thwart federal immigration efforts.
“It stops,” Bondi said. “It stops today.”
The lawsuit describes the law as “a frontal assault on the federal immigration laws and the federal authorities that administer them.” It highlights a provision that requires the state’s department of motor vehicles commissioner to inform people who are in the country illegally when a federal immigration agency has requested their information. The justice department is asking the court to strike down the law.
Bondi made the announcement alongside Tammy Nobles, whose 20-year-old daughter was killed in Aberdeen, Maryland, in July 2022 by someone from El Salvador who had entered the country illegally months earlier in Texas.
Bondi says that the Empire State is endangering the public by interfering with federal law enforcement’s ability to track down and arrest violent people subject to deportation.
As to the specific law regarding the DMV, Bondi said, “It’s tipping off an illegal alien, and it’s unconstitutional, and that’s why we filed this lawsuit.”
“If you don’t comply with federal law, we will hold you accountable,” Bondi said. “We did it to Illinois, strike one. Strike two is New York. And if you are a state not complying with federal law, you’re next. Get ready.”
She was referring to a similar suit the Justice Department filed against Illinois last week before Bondi’s confirmation. That case alleges that the state violates federal law by impeding communication between local law enforcement and their federal counterparts.
New York’s Democrat Governor, Kathy Hochul, responded to the lawsuit, calling it “worthless” and “publicity-driven” in a long statement slamming Bondi’s decision to sue New York and a handful of its officials.
New York Attorney General Letitia James also responded to the lawsuit with the following sentence: “Our state laws, including the Green Light law, protect the rights of all New Yorkers and keep our communities safe. I am prepared to defend our laws, just as I always have.”
Bondi is another of Trump’s puppet department heads who he nominated because they will do his bidding and they otherwise don’t have clue as to their new responsibilities and conforming to the Constitution’s laws limiting their authority.
One by one Trump’s unprecedented number of unqualified nominees for Secretary posts pass through the Senate’s process because Trump pressured his party’s senators into acquiescence and his party currently holds a slim majority in that chamber. His off the wall nutty choices to head up and lead the various departments critical to national security goes to the point of Trump’s own grasp of the factors that go into a strong national security net.
Bondi understands less about American law practiced in a liberal democracy than her boss and master Trump knows, much less understands its inner workings.
When an immigrant becomes a naturalized citizen in America each one must pass an exam containing questions on the particulars of U.S. Civics, The U.S. Constitution including all its amendments, articles, and its application in our nations laws, and memorize the Bill of Rights as well as the pledge of allegiance to the USA, and much more.
Few of us who are fortunate enough to have been born in this country of parents also born in this country and have lived here all our lives plus being educated in this country’s schools are able to answer those questions required for citizenship nor know the pledge by heart to recite it without help or with others in a crowd. The fact is, those naturalized folks are better informed about their new home country’s governing principles and laws than the current president, much of the legislature, a great majority of the voting age public, and the readers of PBP..
So, Ms Bondi may take on this country’s DOJ and use her position to weaponize that agency on Trumps behalf with attacks on Trump’s so called adversaries and vocal objectors. and overlook her boss’s want to condemn Biden for Biden’s DO’s actions that had Trump as a subject of interest or an indictment.
Truth be told, not by sources loyal to Trump, the DOJ during Biden’s term was not made subject to Biden’s demands and whims of fancy as Trump has promised to use the DOJ during his term.
The DOJ was set by the founders as the arbitrator of justice without favor to any one party or partisan authority. Its authority to oversee lower courts carrying out justice with fairness and equality without bias.
The history of the DOJ has not proven that agency to have been blameless and perfectly just. Trump’s first term is evidence that the DOJ can be swayed by an executive who oversteps his role and exerts more authority than is warranted, especially in the case of a president. Trump did his utmost to force his will in DOJ decisions.
Trump appointed Bondi to be his agent (asset) in that agency. To that end and for Trump’s pleasure alone, Bondi is on a collision course with constitutional law, the public’s rights, and the acts of Congress
As Trump’s appointees one by one come on the scene in the bright light that is media we the people will see and judge Trump for his plans and lack of insight by choosing his picks.
Time will prove whether Trump nominated the right candidates to fill the most crucial positions for decision making at our nation’s most important place when decisions need to be made.
The nation’s confidence level depends on it citizens perceptions. Stability and proven assurances of security across the board happens to be the measuring stick. Trump’s ratings are subject to varying factors and from whom the data is being drawn. Objectively, his leadership style has shown that he is mercurial and punchy. Like a hesitant boxer in a title fight will jab and fade back avoiding being hit. He is seen dancing around making threatening comments and daring his opponents to thwart him. Meanwhile, his handlers keep propping him up with outside ideas from which his OE jabs are thrown.
Trump may well fulfill the wide array of his campaign promises paper with EO’s formulated by staff writers.
After which his supporters will comment that he is making hood on his promises more than another president has in past campaigns. Trump’s promises were and are untenable and mostly impossible for him to implement. His authority power can not immediately on his first day in office succeed on all the fronts where hr dreams his successes. Ending Putin’s war with Ukraine in 24 hours, stopping inflation on grocery store prices (eggs), massive deportation of 100 million and more immigrants quickly, build his wall, drill baby drill, just to highlight a few.
He has managed to create unprecedented chaos through out government and its vast spread of life giving agencies worldwide. His edicts have direct correlation with an increase in the death rate of infants, young children and the elderly in economically hard hit regions served by aid from our country’s excess food stocks and benevolent funds.
Trump has not one benevolent bone in his body that houses his minute soul. That, however, assumes he possesses one.
You’re pissed off because democrats can’t hide behind their corrupt justice department anymore. Such it up buttercup. There’s a new sheriff in town.
P.S
PBP, what’s with the lowbrow advertising the reader is forced to scroll through while attempting a read of an article. I have yet to notice an ad that appeals to or targets any market I identity with.
Most have questionable value or distinct product identity.
This is a similar move to the one they tried to pull in Ukraine.
It’s crystal clear they pardoned a guilty man, course they didn’t dare try him in court, and then the real crime is it’s conditional and they can renew the indictment any time they want if the guy does not dance like the organ grinder’s monkey. Worse yet, wHOreMAN said it live on FOX with a devious chuckle.
Is this the new “art of the deal?”
And we have our first Saturday Night Massacre under Trump where even conservatives jumped this sinking shit, sorry, ship.
Planes dropping out of the skies. Vets catching bird flu for lack of a waring report held back by Trump. Trying to kill FEMA when states say they can’t do it. Attaching “conditions” for California disaster relief like ending sanctuary, forcing voter id, and rewriting state policies. Inflation up. Unemployment up and soon to take a real hit. GDP growth estimates below 3%. Retail sales down in January, biggest drop in two years. Eggs double in price in many areas as Trump withholds bird flu data.
Here it comes. Trump’s chaotic hidden plan has international investors wary of investing in a scary place as the US in turmoil. A lack of transparency makes America a tough investment right now. Tariffs begin to strangle commerce not just in the US but globally. It’s the perfect storm. You think he’s shrinking government, he is, and you will lose services and benefits. But it does not lower cost, quite the opposite, firing people costs money in separation costs, unemployment insurance costs, and the costs of all those lawsuits coming in. Trump runs up the bill and you pay the tab. And the expense of the mass deportations, I feel appropriated for criminals, but for the non-criminal undocumented, we gain unemployment and cost.
There is a price tag on all this and have we seen any increased revenues from it? Seth says “suck it up buttercup.” I am pretty sure he can have the first half of that soon with these actions.
Frankly, against all of this, who gives a fuck about Addams and New York City.
AC: Joe runs this out of his house I think. Many of Joe’s ads come from sketchy places. But between the dick pills and the nude photos, I think he’s pretty self-serving :>) Course, then again, he’s probably pretty much self-serve anyways. Basically it tells a lot about the audience, the market for these ads, you and I unfortunately included.