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He can if he can get the support of the states involved. But getting California alone, to cooperate and not find ways to either use questionable states rights as give their people the order to ignore the law or presidential executive order, or congressional law, (doubt this one), or turn their head the other way with innovative ways to lie to the citizens, is going to be close to impossible.

California already ignores the enforcement of federal laws and is claiming Sanctuary cities. The concept of a sanctuary city does not mean it is a place where federal law is unenforced by the feds. Rather, it is a place where local authorities have elected not to spend their tax dollars helping the feds to enforce federal law. The term “sanctuary city” is not a legal term but a political one. The Trump administration has used the term to characterize the governments of towns and cities that have created safe havens for those who have overstayed their visas by refusing to tell the feds who these folks are and where they can be found.

To me this creates an act of accessory after the fact by the officials that will not tell federal officials where these lawbreakers are. But it appears the feds are not going to make an example of one to let the liars know they can get into deep $hit this way.

So the only way I see to fight back on this is to prosecute by forcing an oath on people being questioned and cutting off federal funds for the states’ lack of support of the law.

Last Year, the Trump Department of Justice told the mayor of Chicago that it would cease funding grants to the Chicago Police Department that had been approved in the Obama administration because Chicago city officials were not cooperating with federal immigration officials.

The DOJ contended that Chicago officials were contributing to lawlessness by refusing to inform the feds of the whereabouts of undocumented foreign-born people, thereby creating what the feds derisively call a “sanctuary city,” and Chicago officials have argued that their police officers and clerical folks are not obligated to work for the feds. Working for the feds as a Chicago official, and being asked as a private citizen for information concerning a lawbreaker, are two different things.

rwood