The BriefFederal prosecutors are directed to investigate state and local officials who impede immigration laws.The memo outlines a shift in priorities, emphasizing aggressive prosecution of immigration violations.

The Trump administration has begun a mass deportation campaign, arresting 538 undocumented immigrants with criminal records.

The Justice Department is directing its federal prosecutors to investigate for potential criminal charges any state or local officials who stand in the way of beefed-up enforcement of immigration laws under the Trump administration.

The two Americans freed in the swap, Ryan Corbett and William McKenty, was brokered before Biden left office on Monday.

A memo asserts that state and local officials are bound to cooperate and could face criminal prosecution or civil penalties if they fail to comply.

President Trump, starting his second term, began a slew of executive actions by rescinding 78 Biden-era executive orders, executive actions, and presidential memoranda.

Donald Trump's administration has reassigned about 20 senior career Justice Department attorneys, two sources familiar with the moves told Reuters, as the new president moves swiftly to shake up an arm of government that has long drawn his ire.

The man who crashed a rented truck into barriers protecting the White House in an attempt to overthrow the U.S. government and replace it with a Nazi dictatorship has been sentenced to eight years in prison.

A box truck is seen crashed into a security barrier at a park across from the White ... by the Justice Department in the government’s sentencing memo, Sai Varshith Kandula is seen with a Nazi Flag once he was ordered down by the United States Park ...

That roped Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsay Graham into the heated back and forth, who impressed on Vought that he did not have attorney-client privilege to evade a line of questioning as some of Trump’s other nominees did. “I am not claiming a privilege, Senator,” Vought said.