Washington, DC, a longtime sanctuary jurisdiction, will now cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in several ways just days after President Donald Trump took federal control of the city’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to fight violent crime.
This week, Trump invoked Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to take control of MPD and activated the National Guard to tackle growing violent crime and a rising murder rate in the nation’s capital.
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On Thursday, Border Czar Tom Homan suggested to Fox News that D.C. would no longer impose its sanctuary city policies under federal control — policies that have prevented MPD from turning over criminal illegal aliens to ICE agent