How Does Federal Control of Washington, DC, Affect National Sovereignty?

The liberty principle for this Freedom Friday concerns sanctuary cities and national sovereignty. According to border czar Tom Homan, Washington, D.C. will not operate as a sanctuary city during the time that its police are under federal control. It is a time when the police officers will work together with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. Virginia Allen reported the following concerning Washington, D.C. and federal control. 

“I think D.C. under federal control is not going to be a sanctuary city,” Homan said on Fox News Wednesday. “We’re working with the police hand-in-hand, and when we encounter criminal illegal aliens, they’ll be turned over to ICE.”

“I’m not saying every illegal alien in D.C. is a criminal, but many are,” Homan continued. “so these are the people we’re going to focus on. [The] illegal alien criminal safety threat in D.C. is not going to be protected. There’s no sanctuary for these people in the city of D.C.”

Homan made his remarks after President Donald Trump announced the federalization of Washington’s police force and promised to send the National Guard into the city to support the city’s police force in addressing violent crime there. Since Washington, D.C., restricts law enforcement from working with federal immigration agents, federal control of the city will change the dynamics of crime control.

Attorney General Pam Bondi stated last week that “Sanctuary policies impede law enforcement and put American citizens at risk by design.” As such, sovereign cities damage the nation’s ability to maintain sovereignty by protecting foreign nationals from police. Bondi pledged to bring “litigation against sanctuary jurisdictions and work closely with the Department of Homeland Security to eradicate these harmful policies around the country.” Allen’s article continued as follows.

Under current law, the president is only permitted to federalize Washington’s police for 30 days, but Trump expressed interest during a press conference Wednesday in seeing this time limit changed.

“We’re going to need a crime bill that we’re going to be putting in, and it’s going to pertain initially to D.C.,” Trump said. [The word initially tells me that there is a desire to go into other cities.]

“It’s almost going to use it as a very positive example, and we’re going to be asking for extensions on that, long-term extensions, because you can’t have 30 days,” he continued. “Thirty days is, by the time you do it – we’re going to have this in good shape.”