Jeff Sessions Wants to Recruit Local Cops for Border Patrol: New at Reason

Thanks to the massive legal pushback, perhaps-soon-to-be-ex Attorney General Jeff Sessions was forced to water down his executive order threatening to defund sanctuary cities. But that does not mean that the Justice Department has given up on its efforts to rope in local cops for immigration enforcement purposes. In fact, the Bipartisan Policy Institute’s Theresa Brown reveals that beyond deputizing locals for “interior enforcement,” the administration is trying to get them to assist in border patrol functions, which have to date been an uncontroverted federal responsibility. This in an unprecedented move that may pose the “biggest challenge to federalist principles since the Civil Rights Era,” she writes.

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