U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi discusses a cause enforcement-related announcement during a property league astatine DEA Headquarters successful Arlington, Virginia, U.S., July 15, 2025.
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The Department of Justice connected Thursday asked California sheriffs for information connected their inmates who are not U.S. citizens — including the crimes they committed and their merchandise dates — successful the latest escalation of President Donald Trump's mass-deportation plans.
The national instrumentality enforcement bureau said it told sheriffs successful Los Angeles, San Francisco and different California counties to crook implicit "lists of each inmates successful their jails who are not citizens of the United States."
If the California sheriffs bash not voluntarily nutrient the requested information, the DOJ said, it "will prosecute each disposable means of obtaining the data, including done subpoenas oregon different compulsory process."
Attorney General Pam Bondi's missive to LA County Sheriff Robert Luna asked for that information wrong 30 days.
Bondi's missive besides appears to notation a 2015 colony agreement that the LA Sheriff's Department struck with the DOJ. That settlement, which was not related to immigration, required the section to supply the U.S. "full and implicit entree to the jails" and immoderate related records.
"This Administration is committed to enforcing national migration laws. Our highest precedence is removing those amerciable aliens who committed crimes aft illegally entering the United States," Bondi wrote.
The requests amusement the Trump medication ratcheting up unit connected large California cities, wherever it has already staged immoderate of its astir assertive and arguable national migration enforcement raids.
Bondi and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum connected Thursday received a briefing astatine Alcatraz, the famed erstwhile situation land successful San Francisco Bay, a elder DOJ authoritative told NBC News.
Trump has said helium wants to reopen the facility, which has not operated arsenic a situation since 1963 and presently stands arsenic a depository operated by the National Park Service.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who often clashes with Trump, swiped astatine Bondi aboriginal Thursday by referencing the ongoing contention implicit the alleged Jeffrey Epstein files, which has engulfed her agency.
"Pam Bondi volition reopen Alcatraz the aforesaid time Trump lets her merchandise the Epstein files," Newsom's property bureau wrote successful an X post. "So ... never."
California's 2017 sanctuary instrumentality bars authorities and section constabulary from arresting radical connected migration grounds and limits their information successful national migration enforcement activities.
The instrumentality besides limits erstwhile sheriff's departments tin supply U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers with an incarcerated noncitizen's release date.
Federal migration authorities' sweeping deportation operations successful California person spurred a backlash successful the signifier of heated protests and lawsuits.
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