Almost a year after deportation flights were banned, the Department of Justice makes good on its threat to sue.
by Lilly Fowler / February 11, 2020 / Crosscut
Brian T. Moran, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington, and William D. Hyslop, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, held a press conference in downtown Seattle on Monday soon after U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced the lawsuit in a speech to the National Sheriffs’ Association in Washington, D.C.
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“When state and local governments try to obstruct rather than assist federal law enforcement, we are not taking those efforts lying down,” Barr said before announcing a series of actions, including the Boeing Field litigation, which was filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. Barr also announced a lawsuit against New Jersey over a law there that forbids state and local law enforcement from sharing information about undocumented immigrants.
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