Feds Demand Records Related to ICE Cooperation from 23 Counties
In what will be a test of the Tenth Amendment and 8 USC 1373, the Department of Justice is demanding records related to ICE cooperation from 23 counties across the country:
From the Albuquerque Journal:
Bernalillo County was one of 23 jurisdictions across the country that received letters from the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday asking for the county to turn over policies related to immigration enforcement.
The DOJ threatened to withhold future law enforcement-related grants and make the county pay back prior grants if it failed to comply.
The DOJ’s letter to County Commission Chairman Steven Michael Quezada specifically requests:
“All documents reflecting any orders, directives, instructions, or guidance to your law enforcement employees (including, but not limited to, police officers, correctional officers, and contract employees), whether formal or informal, that were distributed, produced, and/or in effect during the relevant timeframe, regarding whether and how these employees may, or may not, communicate with the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, and/or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or their agents, whether directly or indirectly.” Read more….