Prosecutor General New Jersey Matthew Platkin conducts a coalition of states led by the democratic position of President Donald Trump’s administration on the conditions related to immigration, which he imposed on funds for victims of crime using violence.
The lawsuit, filed on Monday, argues that Trump’s Department of Justice broke the law when he associated a subsidy for helping victim and compensation with the cooperation of countries with federal immigration enforcement.
Platkin called the policy of Trump’s administration “the most hideous act I saw in politics”, accusing the president of using crime victims as pawns. “We will not allow them to make politics against public security.”
Delaware Kathy Jennings and democratic prosecutors from several other states joined the prosecutor general in New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Prosecutor General, Dave Sunday, a Republican, did not join the lawsuit.
The Department of Justice refused to comment.
The lawsuit is the latest of several, which democratic general prosecutors brought against administration, looking for a restoration of funds without state rule, often with immigration conditions, because Trump threatens actions against the so -called jurisdiction of the sanctuary.
Funds of victim aid are provided by the Federal Government in the form of annual subsidies and are usually administered by state governments. Funds are used for various services, including shelters, funerals, processing rape sets and susceptibility lines to crime victims.
Doj Trump tried to require cooperation from American immigration and enforcement of customs law and sharing information about recipients with the Internal Security Department in order to receive federal money from subsidies.
According to the claim, annual financing from the New Jersey program has rangeed from 30 million to $ 94 million in the last 10 years. Jennings said Delaware received $ 15 million a year under the program.
Democratic general lawyers claimed that these funds were necessary tools for law enforcement agencies and key to aid victims of a brutal crime in restoring their lives.
It is not clear how many victims that they utilize these funds are undocumented. In Delaware, Jennings said that law enforcement agencies do not ask, because the law establishing funds does not require that beneficiaries be lawyers.
“You are a victim, regardless of your status,” she said.
The conditions, according to the lawsuit, force you to sacrifice the basic programs or ignore their best judgment on law enforcement agencies in order to provide information on the legal status of witnesses and victims of federal authorities.
General lawyers ask the federal judge on Rhode Island to state that the conditions violate the victims of the Crime Act and prevent the Department of Justice from enforcing them when you apply for subsidies this year.
