The Washington Examiner has details:
Border Patrol union warns Democratic sanctuary cities will be ‘dealt with’
National Border Patrol Council President Paul Perez warned Democratic officials against opposing the incoming Trump administration’s planned deportations, as President-elect Donald Trump is hiring “the best legal minds” who would enforce consequences.
Several state officials, including Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), have been working in the wake of the 2024 election to deter the incoming administration’s deportations of illegal immigrants, prompting Trump “border czar” Tom Homan to warn them to “get out of the way.” In response to the officials and sanctuary cities intending to work against the Trump administration, Perez argued they need to recognize that “federal law supersedes state law.”
“Anybody that’s going to get in the way is going to be dealt with, and so they need to take this incoming administration at its word because they are going to have some of the best legal minds working in the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security,” Perez said on Fox News’s America Reports, guest-hosted by Griff Jenkins and Julie Banderas. “So it’s not something that they’re taking lightly. They’re going to do the job.”