In separate cases, liberal Democrats are attempting to hinder the efforts of ICE officers to do their jobs.
According to Fox News, New Jersey, Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed legislation to limit the use of face coverings for law enforcement, including federal ICE agents, exposing them to doxing and other abuses. Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson signed a similar anti-masking bill.
In Phoenix, the city council approved a plan aimed at restricting the access of ICE to areas like parks, community, and other public places, reports 12News, an NBC affiliated station.
Perhaps the most egregious anti-ICE action comes from George Soros, backed Philadelphia District Attorney Lawrence Krasner. The New York Post reports that he is threatening to arrest and jail agents at airports and claiming that even a pardon from President Donald Trump won't protect them.
This comes after Trump sent ICE agents to 14 airports across the nation to help TSA agents during the partial government shutdown.
George Fishman is senior legal fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, who served for two years in the first Trump administration.
"Under the Constitution, as the Supreme Court has told us, the Supremacy Clause means that when federal law and state law conflict, and the federal law is something that is proper under the U.S. Constitution. The federal law is supreme, and states cannot interfere in the enforcement of federal law," Fishman states.
Fishman says if local or state law enforcement tries to arrest a federal agent and things get out of hand, the president can act decisively.
"If necessary, the president could use the Insurrection Act to call out the U.S. military to deal with this situation, but I would certainly hope it never got to that,” Fishman states. “On the other hand, if Krasner or if anyone else is doing things which are actually interfering in the enforcement of the federal law, that is a federal criminal offense. They could be arrested, prosecuted under federal criminal law."
