DC Attorney General sued for blocking police acquisition
Justice correspondent David Spunt joined the ‘US News Room’ to discuss Washington, DC Attorney General President Donald Trump’s efforts to block the federal acquisition of local police. ‘Fox News Sunday’ anchor Shannon Breame is also weighing.
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A large number of arrests by the newly formed Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department will probably be an illegal immigrants, predicting a specialist.
Some of the 45 arrests declared by the Trump administration on Wednesday were 29 illegal immigrants. A day later, 15 of 33 arrests were illegal immigrants, including a suspect from China.
Fox News Digital said, “It would not be surprising to hear that a significant part of the arrest under federal intervention would be criminal aliens.” “Washington, DC, has long been suffering from problems with road gangs, which includes majority of illegal foreigners in the part due to sanctuary policies, but also because the former waves of illegal immigration have given birth to large middle American migrants in the region.”
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Attorney General Pamela Bandi speaks on action for drug cartels and drug trafficking under the operation of the Justice Department during a DOJ and DEA joint announcement, which is a back a back America initiative at DEA Headquarters in Arlington, VA on July 15, 2025. (Craig Hudson for Washington Post through Getty Image)
“Gangs like MS-13 and 18th Street prefer to set up shops in these areas, so they can recruit, exclude the population, and scare. Any city that tolerates illegal immigration is going to have a problem with criminal aliens, which know that they will be reflected in immigration enforcement.”
This week, Attorney General Palm Bondi left the sanctuary policies from the department as a part of a move that would override the city laws on the matter.
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Earlier today, DC Police Chief Pamela Smith issued an order allowing some cooperation with the federal immigration officers, but stopped below allowing cooperation for the sole purpose of immigration enforcement.
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With US President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (L) and Attorney General Palm Bondi (R), Washington on 11 August 2025, Washington, speaks during a news conference to discuss the crime in DC in Washington, Washington, DC in the Brady Press briefing room at the White House at DC. (Photo by Andrew Cablero-Renolds/AFP through Getty Image)
The short -term Thursday order from Smith allowed the authorities to share information about the individuals who are not in MPD detained during the “traffic stop” and allow them to provide transport to the employees of the federal immigration agency and start the subjects taken into custody, ” NBC 4 Washington,
“This intervention by Trump is an opportunity for ice that for years of obstructing the DC government, and to clean the criminal aliens hunting the city law. Gangs and hunters will no longer move to city parks and public places, the way they are recently in the past, and those who are, will be sent back to the streets.”
Since President Donald Trump announced police acquisition on Monday, many federal agencies, along with National Guards, are patrolling the streets of Washington, DC, and they are visible in prominent places across the capital.
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Residents surrounded the federal and border patrol agents, who plan to escape after an immigrant raid on the Atlantic blav. Bell, in California on 19 June 2025. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times through Getty Image)
“Under President Trump and [Homeland Security] Secretary [Kristi] The US is being protected to protect the ICE law enforcement from dangerous criminals, leadership of NOEM. As the Secretary has announced, ICE and CBP have been deployed to help clean the streets of our country’s capital, “said a department of a spokesman of Homeland Security.
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The spokesman said, “Our message is clear: Criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the United States.”
Elizabeth Protecate of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
