Trump's Doj Requests California Sheriffs' Data On Criminal Illegal Immigrants In Custody

The Department of Justice connected Thursday issued requests to sheriffs successful aggregate ample California counties—including Los Angeles and San Francisco counties—for lists of each inmates successful their jails who are not citizens of nan United States.

The requests besides see nan illegal immigrant's charges aliases conviction, and their scheduled merchandise dates, according to a news merchandise from nan DOJ's Office of Public Affairs.

"In caller years, nan United States suffered an penetration of forbidden aliens astatine an unprecedented scale," officials wrote successful nan release. "Far excessively galore of those forbidden aliens person gone connected to perpetrate crimes connected American soil, including rapes, murders, and different convulsive crimes. Today’s information requests are designed to assistance national migration authorities successful prioritizing nan removal of forbidden aliens who committed crimes aft illegally entering nan United States."

Although each forbidden migrant by meaning has violated national law, nan DOJ said those who spell connected to perpetrate crimes aft coming into nan state illegally airs a heightened consequence to nan nation’s information and security.

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A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s lawman stands connected nan perimeter of LAPD office successful June during anti-ICE riots. (Peter D'Abrosca for Fox News Digital)

"Removing criminal forbidden aliens is this Administration’s highest priority," Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote successful nan release. "I look guardant to cooperating pinch California’s region sheriffs to execute our shared work of keeping Californians and each Americans safe and secure."

The DOJ said it "hopes" California sheriffs will voluntarily nutrient nan requested information, but if necessary, nan section will "pursue each disposable intends of obtaining nan data, including done subpoenas aliases different compulsory process."

National Guard soldiers artifact protestors during an ICE migration ambush astatine a adjacent cannabis workplace connected July 10, 2025 adjacent Camarillo, California.  (Getty Images/Mario Tama)

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The requests travel weeks aft Border Czar Tom Homan, connected Fox News' "Kudlow," vowed to "double down and triple down" connected sanctuary cities that are obstructing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations. 

"President [Donald] Trump made it clear 2 weeks ago, we are going to double down and triple down nan sanctuary cities," Homan said. "If we can't apprehension that bad feline successful nan jail, past we'll spell to nan organization and we'll find him."

Los Angeles is nan largest and arguably astir strident of America's astir 300 sanctuary cities. (Reuters)

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Multiple lawsuits person been revenge by nan authorities against nan Trump management regarding migration enforcement.

Most recently, nan management revenge a petition pinch nan courts to suspend a impermanent restraining bid that was issued Friday against ICE aft a Biden-appointed judge ruled nan agency apt violated law protections during raids successful Los Angeles.

Fox News Digital's Greg Wehner and Fox News' Matt Finn contributed to this report.