The Trump administration sued the city of Los Angeles on June 30, alleging that the city’s sanctuary policies prohibited immigration officers from doing their jobs.
In the lawsuit, Attorney General Pam Bondi invoked the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, which establishes that federal laws and treaties are the supreme law of the land.
“Sanctuary policies were the driving cause of the violence, chaos, and attacks on law enforcement that Americans recently witnessed in Los Angeles,” Bondi wrote in a statement posted on social media platform X Monday. “Jurisdictions like Los Angeles that flout federal law by prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens are undermining law enforcement at every level—it ends under President [Donald] Trump.”…