{"id":74122,"date":"2026-05-28T14:56:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/trumps-doj-sues-four-states-for-denying-ice-agents-undercover-license-plates\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T14:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:56:25","slug":"trumps-doj-sues-four-states-for-denying-ice-agents-undercover-license-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/trumps-doj-sues-four-states-for-denying-ice-agents-undercover-license-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s DoJ sues four states for denying ICE agents undercover license plates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon and Washington state sued as ICE seeks plates in Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration is suing to challenge the refusal of four US states to issue confidential license plates to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement\">ICE<\/a>) agents, saying the states have long provided them to other law enforcement agencies conducting undercover operations.<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday said it had filed lawsuits against Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon and Washington state after states led by Democratic governors refused to rescind their policies. ICE is seeking access to such plates to carry out arrests as part of Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/usimmigration\">immigration crackdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/28\/trump-doj-lawsuit-ice-undercover-license-plates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon and Washington state sued as ICE seeks plates in Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown The Trump administration is suing to challenge the refusal of four US states to issue confidential license plates to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, saying the states have long provided them to other law enforcement agencies conducting undercover &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s DoJ sues four states for denying ICE agents undercover license plates\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/trumps-doj-sues-four-states-for-denying-ice-agents-undercover-license-plates\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s DoJ sues four states for denying ICE agents undercover license plates\">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-74122","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\/74122","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=74122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}