Almost 200 illegal migrants in New York have been charged with federal crimes for entering the US illegally — after the Trump administration found a workaround to bypass sanctuary city laws and force local authorities to help with the president’s mass deportation effort.
The workaround escalates the cases from a civil immigration issue to a federal criminal one, allowing ICE agents to enter jails of sanctuary jurisdictions, including the Empire State, to pick up illegal migrants.
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