WASHINGTON — The Justice Department filed a sweeping lawsuit Thursday against New York City and Mayor Eric Adams over Gotham’s sanctuary city laws — days after an off-duty US Customs and Border Protection officer was shot in the face during a botched robbery.
The 37-page filing in Brooklyn federal court argued that the city’s decades-old policies limiting the NYPD’s and other law enforcement agency’s cooperation with federal immigration enforcement are unconstitutional.
“The United States has well-established, preeminent, and preemptive authority to regulate immigration,” federal attorneys wrote. “New York City has long been at the vanguard of interfering with enforcing this country’s immigration laws.”
“Just this week, New York City’s sanctuary policies have reaped tragic consequences.”…