{"id":698158,"date":"2026-04-01T21:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/698158\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T21:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:55:14","slug":"republican-legislator-looks-to-put-phoenix-policy-regarding-ice-under-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/698158\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican legislator looks to put Phoenix policy regarding ICE under scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 Contending the move is illegal, a Republican lawmaker wants Attorney General Kris Mayes to investigate \u2014 and presumably bring legal action \u2014 against cities that refuse to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement to operate on their property.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Quang Nguyen acknowledges the U.S. Constitution prohibits the \u201ccommandeering\u201d of state resources. And that, said the Prescott Valley Republican, bars the federal government from compelling states \u201cto enact or administer a federal regulatory program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Nguyen points out there also is a state law that bars cities from adopting policies that \u201climit or restrict the enforcement of federal immigration laws to less than the full extent permitted by federal law.\u201d That, he said in a letter to Mayes, preempts the ability of cities to ban ICE from using municipal property, even as a staging area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 Contending the move is illegal, a Republican lawmaker wants Attorney General Kris Mayes to investigate \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":698159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-698158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116331684016681611","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698158","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=698158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}