President Trump will sign an executive order on Monday that will direct his administration to compile a list of sanctuary cities that are in violation of federal immigration laws.
Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will be directed to “provide a list of sanctuary cities in which local officials are not complying with this federal order and are not complying with federal immigration laws,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday, adding that the published list will include “state and local jurisdictions that obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration laws.”
“It’s quite simple – obey the law, respect the law, and don’t obstruct federal immigration officials and law enforcement officials when they are simply trying to remove public safety threats from our nation’s communities,” said Leavitt said, The according to The Hill newspaper.
Another executive order will be signed by Trump on Monday that will “strengthen and unleash America’s law enforcement to pursue criminals and protect innocent citizens,” Leavitt said.
Trump is expected to sign both orders at 5 p.m. Eastern Time.
FBI agents early Friday raided the home of former National Security Advisor John Bolton as part of an investigation into a national security matter, U.S. officials told Just the News.
FBI Director Kash Patel hinted at the action in a cryptic post on his X social media account.
“NO ONE is above the law… FBI agents on mission,” Patel wrote.
Officials said the search of Bolton’s home involved a national security case that began under the Biden administration, but wasn’t aggressively pursued until Patel took over earlier this year. They declined to be more specific.
Bolton was one of several national security advisers for Trump, but was eventually fired and became a critic of the current president and Patel's nomination as FBI Director.
Earlier this year, Trump pulled Bolton's security clearance and Secret Service protection, drawing objections from some GOP senators like Tom Cotton of Arkansas.
After that action, Bolton eerily predicted he might face further action from Patel's FBI.
"I think the central characteristic Trump seems to be looking for in all of the appointees we’ve seen so far is fealty to him," he told the Christian Science Monitor in January. "A lot of people say it’s loyalty. Loyalty is a virtue, it’s a good thing. That’s not what Trump wants. He wants fealty to him. He wants submissiveness. He wants yes-men and yes-women. And Kash Patel has demonstrated, in his service in Trump’s first term, that he’ll simply do whatever Trump wants.
In response to a question in the interview about Patel, he said: "I don’t think he’s qualified," Bolton told the Christian Science Monitor "And if there is a retribution campaign, and there certainly seems to be, he would be a central element of it. I think that’s dangerous."