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Topline:<\/b><\/p>\n The Department of Justice is suing Los Angeles over its sanctuary city policies, according to court documents filed today.\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n What is L.A. accused of? <\/b>In the lawsuit, the department accuses the city of \u201cdeliberately obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration law,\u201d U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said in a statement. The department blames the ordinance for why it deployed the National Guard and U.S. Marines.<\/p>\n What federal officials say<\/b>: \u201cJurisdictions like Los Angeles that flout federal law by prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens are undermining law enforcement at every level \u2014 it ends under President Trump,\u201d Attorney General Pamela Bondi said.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what the city\u2019s policy is:<\/b> The city\u2019s policy prohibits federal agents from using city resources \u2014 staff and property \u2014 for immigration enforcement, and does not allow the city to cooperate with such efforts. L.A. has been a sanctuary city since 2019.<\/p>\n What are city officials saying?<\/b> Bass did not immediately respond to LAist\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keep up with LAist. If you’re enjoying this article, you’ll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,9611,24099,2961,224,5337,24098],"class_list":{"0":"post-27834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-department-of-justice","11":"tag-immigration-enforcement","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-sanctuary-city"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114773840586537936","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}