You perhaps were expecting something else?:
Delaware’s new federal prosecutor has asked a judge to force state labor officials to hand over local businesses’ payroll information to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to court documents.
Court records indicate the office of Delaware’s U.S. Attorney Julianne Murray filed a court petition last week seeking to enforce a subpoena issued by federal immigration authorities upon the Delaware’s Department of Labor. The subpoena demands payroll information for more than a dozen local businesses that federal authorities suspect may employ undocumented people, according to court filings.
Murray, who recently led Delaware’s Republican Party and who Trump once described as “MAGA all the way,” appears to be serving as the local muscle in the federal government’s expanding effort to impose Trump’s agenda on so-called “sanctuary jurisdictions.
Attorneys representing the state’s Department of Labor have been summoned to Delaware District Court Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly’s courtroom on the afternoon of Aug. 6 to give cause as to why the state shouldn’t be forced to produce the documents.
The petition appears to be the first local court battle over President Donald Trump’s unprecedented campaign to round up more than 3,000 undocumented people each day, an effort that is set to accelerate after the president’s recent budget measure passed by Congress and increased ICE detention funding four-fold to $45 billion.
That campaign has already seen masked ICE agents across the country rip people from their workplaces, courts and other public places while fast tracking deportations and detaining individuals in inhumane conditions and without respect for due process. It has sometimes snared people with protected legal status, American citizens, international students engaged in protest, sought to cancel birthright citizenship and is increasingly leveraging personal data collected by both government and non-government entities.
Perhaps Alonna Berry will address this the next time she runs.