{"id":31259,"date":"2025-01-22T18:12:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T18:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/doj-says-it-will-prosecute-officials-who-resist-trumps-immigration-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T18:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T18:12:04","slug":"doj-says-it-will-prosecute-officials-who-resist-trumps-immigration-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/doj-says-it-will-prosecute-officials-who-resist-trumps-immigration-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"DoJ says it will prosecute officials who resist Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justice department directive comes amid slate of executive orders targeting US immigrants and asylum seekers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/jan\/22\/donald-trump-china-sanctions-tariff-diversity-us-politics-live-latest-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/22\/trump-immigration-orders-chaos-confusion\">Trump\u2019s immigration orders designed to sow chaos \u2013 \u2018he wants you to feel afraid\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US justice department is ordering federal prosecutors to target state and local officials who resist the administration\u2019s planned mass deportation campaign, marking a dramatic escalation in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/usimmigration\">immigration<\/a> crackdown just days after taking office.<\/p>\n<p>The acting deputy attorney general, Emil Bove, directed prosecutors nationwide, in a document obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2025\/01\/22\/justice-immigrantion-memo-sanctuary-cities\/\">the Washington Post<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/justice-department-immigration-enforcement-f0e3fc616da9746796378d1cd6385b1b\">the Associated Press<\/a>, to investigate and potentially bring criminal charges against officials in \u201csanctuary\u201d jurisdictions for \u201charboring\u201d undocumented immigrants or withholding immigration information from federal authorities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/22\/justice-department-trump-immigration\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice department directive comes amid slate of executive orders targeting US immigrants and asylum seekers US politics live \u2013 latest updates Trump\u2019s immigration orders designed to sow chaos \u2013 \u2018he wants you to feel afraid\u2019 The US justice department is ordering federal prosecutors to target state and local officials who resist the administration\u2019s planned mass &#8230; <a title=\"DoJ says it will prosecute officials who resist Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/doj-says-it-will-prosecute-officials-who-resist-trumps-immigration-crackdown\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about DoJ says it will prosecute officials who resist Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}