The Trump administration filed a lawsuit on April 24 alleging that the city of Rochester, New York, had violated the Constitution and federal law through multiple policies barring cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
Filed in federal court, the lawsuit came a month after Rochester Mayor Malik Evans, at a press conference, accused local police of potentially violating city policy by responding to a request from the Department of Homeland Security on March 24. Evans said that immigration enforcement was a federal function and that local police do not assist in federal immigration enforcement.
The city, Evans, and City Council President Miguel Melendez Jr. responded by calling the lawsuit “an exercise in political theater, not legal practice.”…