The District Prosecutor in Philadelphia, Larry Krasner, said on Friday that local elected officials and law enforcement agencies cannot be forced to follow the “Nazi things” of Trump’s administration, referring to the planned repression of the president on immigration.
“Local law enforcement agencies can volunteer to do Nazi things,” said Krasner, Democrat. “I am sure that I stand here with all my colleagues, when we speak, no, no. Perhaps there are several local law enforcement agencies that want to set up jackboots and gray uniforms and march behind it, but not us. “
The commentary appeared during a press conference on Friday at the Town Hall in Philadelphia, where representatives of the state and members of the City Council condemned the actions of President Donald Trump regarding immigration, Including the guidelines that were once forbidden to federal agents entering churches, schools and hospitals. Reports about immigration and customs enforcement in the US have resounded in the Philadelphia area since Trump took office, increasing concerns for the immigrant community. At the beginning of this week, ICE agents attacked a car washer in Philadelphia, arresting seven people and causing a protest.
Officials on Friday tried to make society aware of the intention of Philadelphia in the protection of the immigrant community in the city of the Sanctuary.
Krasner, who has long been positioned and conducted a campaign on being a definite opponent of Trump, is expected that the re -election offer for the third term will occur in the coming weeks. At the beginning of this month, the former Judge Philadelphia Patrick Dugan announced his offer to challenge Krasner.
Krasner said that the basis of non-compliance of local officials with federal orders is supported by anti-comandical doctrine, which is based on the tenth correction and says that “the federal government cannot require states or state officials to accept or enforce federal law”, “,” According to Scotusblog.
A note from the full deputy prosecutor General Trump Emil Bove, published on various news sites last week, threatened the consequences for local officials who do not cooperate with Trump’s plans to part with immigration, adding that local officials are legally cooperating with the US Department of Justice based on the constitution supremacy.
In the lightweight of this note, Krasner said that he and his employees would not comply with any immigration orders that break the law.
He expressed a similar sentiment on Friday, also considering that American immigration and customs enforcement “will do what is legally and constitutionally authorized.
“As a law enforcement officer, we would not disturb this,” said Krasner.
But Krasner added that his office would not refrain from racing ice agents in Philadelphia for “criminal things that go beyond their rights.”
“Every ice agent, every proud boy who thinks that hate crimes are frosty, he thinks:” I can escape everything because there is a king in DC? “No, you can’t. This is not how it will work – said Krasner.
“If you are so willing to break the law to harm immigrants … If you are willing to use them as a scapegoat, hurt them, be cruel to them, better do it as part of the law, and if you do not do it, try me. “
