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It would be more fun for the Trump admin to simply ignore the federally unconstitutional laws, watch Virginia Democrats go Full Moonbat, but, States keep losing when they pass these laws

DOJ challenges Virginia laws restricting officer face coverings, ICE agreements

The Trump administration’s Justice Department is challenging several state laws passed by Virginia Democrats targeting the work of federal immigration enforcement officers.

The complaint, filed in the Eastern District of Virginia’s Richmond Division, challenges state laws that seek to ban federal law enforcement officers from wearing masks and restrict 287(g) agreements between federal immigration enforcement and state and local law enforcement agencies.

The Justice Department argues the face mask ban illegally attempts to regulate the federal government and threatens federal officers with prosecution for concealing their identities.

“Law enforcement officers risk their lives every day to keep Americans safe, and they do not deserve to be doxed or harassed simply for carrying out their duties,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a release. “Virginia’s anti-law enforcement policies regulate the federal government and are designed to create risk for our agents. These laws cannot stand.”

If Democrat voters weren’t so violent there would be no need for masks.

The Commonwealth of Virginia, Attorney General Jay Jones and Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano were named as defendants in the lawsuit. Jones said his office is reviewing the lawsuit.

“We remain steadfast in our mission to protect Virginians right to safe communities and transparent enforcement of the law,” he said in a statement to ARLnow.

Illegal aliens aren’t Virginians. They are Mexicans, Hondurans, Venezuelans, Pakistanis, Chinese, etc and so on.

In court filings, the federal government said the legislation to restrict federal immigration agreements is “unconstitutional.”

“Virginia seeks to override Congress’s enactments that provide that ICE may enter into agreements with States and localities in which ICE trains local officers in immigration enforcement matters and provides them with the authority to conduct such matters under the color of Federal law,” the Justice Department said in the complaint.

Virginia’s laws should be deemed null and void within a few weeks.