Within minutes of Attorney General Pam Bondi being sworn into office Wednesday, she directed the Justice Department to pause all money headed to “sanctuary cities” and non-governmental agencies that fund illegal aliens.
Mayors like Denver’s Mike Johnston are also under a microscope by agency investigators directed to keep an Eagle eye out for those who impede law enforcement officials carrying out federal immigration law.
In the immortal words of Pepper Brooks in Dodgeball: “It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for ’em.”
The Daily Wire has a breakdown of which cities and states officials will be watching:
A map of sanctuary cities compiled by the Center for Immigration Studies reveals that various cities across the country, including Lansing, Michigan, New York, New York, Richmond, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland, and numerous others, refuse to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
Entire states, such as California, Washington, Oregon, Utah, and Colorado have also adopted sanctuary policies to protect illegal aliens from deportations. Counties in conservative states like Tennessee, Idaho, Wyoming, and Nebraska have adopted the policies as well, while some regional jail systems have similarly refused to comply with ICE.
President Trump has succeeded in turning Washington, D.C. on its ear by pulling the bureaucratic structure out by the roots and exposing the rot for the world to see.
While Democrats and their friends in the media are making quick time to defend the rot by shooting the messenger — Elon Musk — Trump is moving at such breakneck speeds that the best they’ve been able to do is engage in whack-a-mole.
Even the usual suspects of Denver protesters were caught off guard and had to resort to homemade signs instead of the professionally printed products usually provided by government sponsored non-profits and NGOs.
So now the Democrats are going to try insurrection.
U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey literally declared war on the U.S. government.
She’s right. We ARE at war.
Did you ever wonder how World War Three would be fought?
You are in the middle of it.
It starts with government fraud being exposed to the entire world: pic.twitter.com/jtownBDsko
— FBI Shrapnel🖕 S + 🔜 (@3nityAlchemy) February 5, 2025
Colorado’s Democrat U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper also released his version of the war speech.
The moment is NOW to use every tool at our disposal to disrupt the chaotic actions of the Trump administration.
If they try to force through another nominee that will harm Colorado, I will oppose them. If we need to hold the Senate floor, vote all night, or disrupt business as… pic.twitter.com/7Rzs0hRuiu
— Senator John Hickenlooper (@SenatorHick) February 5, 2025
So weird that Hick finds it amusing.
Meanwhile, Mayor Johnston seems to be taking the sanctuary city funding axe seriously. He’s agreed to appear before Congress on March 8 and explain how the city is going to, or not, cooperate with federal law enforcement.