White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt said the order “centricly focuses on protecting American communities from criminal foreigners.”
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on April 28th, instructing the administration to prepare and publish a list of sanctuary cities accused of obstructing federal immigration law enforcement.
The order Trump is due to sign on Monday evening will “publish a list of state and local jurisdictions that will interfere with federal immigration law enforcement” to Homeland Security Secretary Christie Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondy, “will publish a list of state and local jurisdictions that will interfere with enforcement of federal immigration laws,” White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt told reporter Monday.
She said the order “centricly focuses on protecting American communities from criminal foreigners.”
“It’s very simple. Please strengthen the law, respect the law, and not obstruct federal immigration officials or law enforcement officials.
The spokesman was joined by Trump’s border emperor Tom Homan, who previewed the orders during a press conference early Monday morning. The presentation focused on Trump’s immigration actions during the first 100 days of his second term.
The president is expected to sign a second executive order Monday evening, aiming to “strengthen American law enforcement, pursue criminals, and protect innocent citizens.”
The signature ceremony is scheduled for April 28th at 5pm. As of Monday, Trump had signed more than 140 executive orders in his first 100 days since taking office, the White House said.
Lewitt has accused the Biden administration of granting asylum to millions of people who traveled to the southern borders from other countries since early 2021, indicating that Trump’s immigration policy is a response to what she called former President Joe Biden’s “religion of mission.”
But much of the Trump administration’s actions regarding illegal immigration, including deportation flights to El Salvador, have come across lawsuits from outside groups, Democratic state attorney general and plaintiffs.
The Trump administration moved to appeal these decisions.
Recently, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government must “promote” the return of Kilmer Abrego Garcia, an illegal immigrant deported to El Salvador due to “mismanagement” after being granted “withholding tax for removal” in 2019 due to life-threatening conditions in El Salvador’s home country.
The administration says he is a member of Venezuela’s Transnational Gang MS-13 and is now a designated foreign terrorist organization. Administration officials also say that the responsibility for Abrego Garcia’s return is now with the El Salvador government, and the US government will pay $6 million to take DeCoty to the largest security prison, the Centre for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT).
President Salvadoran Naive Buquere said he would not return Abrego Garcia to the United States.
“Of course I’m not going to do that. So the questions are ridiculous,” he told reporters during his visit to the White House on April 14th. When asked if he would release him within El Salvador, he said, “We really don’t like to release terrorists into our country.”
Last week, a federal judge ruled in a previous Trump order that he would direct Bondi and Noem to ensure that the sanctuary jurisdiction would “not receive access to the federal fund.”
Orick’s ruling prevented the Trump administration from enforcing orders against several California jurisdictions. These include the cities of Monterey County and Emeryville, Oakland, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz.
To celebrate the president’s first 100 days prior inauguration, the White House on Monday showed signs of immigrants and customs enforcement agencies arrested and accused crimes.
