{"id":703,"date":"2026-05-28T13:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=703"},"modified":"2026-05-28T13:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:08:25","slug":"doj-sues-four-democrat-led-states-that-block-ice-from-registering-undercover-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"DOJ sues four Democrat-led states that block ICE from registering undercover vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The Department of Justice announced lawsuits Thursday against four Democrat-led states that have policies blocking ICE from obtaining registrations for vehicles used in undercover work.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=701\">Space Force urged to deploy troops on moon to prevent China from gaining edge in space<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maine, Washington, Oregon and Massachusetts restrict access to confidential license plates. The Justice Department says their policies are unconstitutional and dangerous to federal agents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy denying undercover license plates to [Department of Homeland Security] components, including ICE, while issuing them to their own state agencies, these governors are pursuing discriminatory and obstructionist policies against federal law enforcement,\u201d acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said.<\/p>\n<p>Undercover plates are standard in law enforcement work, allowing agents and officers to blend in with regular traffic and conduct operations with less visibility. The Justice Department said they also can prevent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from being tracked and harassed.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon\u2019s policy refuses license plates for all federal law enforcement, while Maine\u2019s grants license plates only after the federal agency proves it won\u2019t use the vehicles for immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Washington will issue to some federal agencies but not Homeland Security. And Massachusetts specifically targets ICE, offering civilian undercover registrations only if the agency proves the vehicles will be used for criminal investigations and not civil immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>States have generally defended their policies as a necessary check on being roped into assisting the federal government in immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMassachusetts is not going to allow state resources to be used to help ICE operate in secret while they are violating people\u2019s rights and making us all less safe,\u201d Jacqueline Manning, a spokeswoman for Gov. Maura Healey, said earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Manning said \u201clegitimate criminal law enforcement work\u201d can still get a confidential plate.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=699\">Taylor Swift concert plot suspect apologizes in Austrian court ahead of verdict<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Her comments came in response to DOJ letters sent to the four states asking them to revoke their policies.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuits are the latest in a string of legal cases the Trump administration has brought challenging sanctuary policies.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the Justice Department has been mostly unsuccessful. Federal judges have blocked attempts to withhold money from sanctuaries.<\/p>\n<p>And lawsuits aimed at overturning laws, such as New York\u2019s limit on arrests at state courthouses, have been rebuffed by judges.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department has seen success in challenging anti-masking and forced identification laws. California had both \u2014 and both have been blocked by federal courts that ruled they trampled on federal power.<\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s anti-masking law, in particular, was blocked because courts found it discriminated by singling out the federal government. The state had no similar law for its own personnel.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department suggested that same logic could apply to the license plate restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=697\">\u2018Culture of fear\u2019 helped influence D.C. police leaders to fudge crime numbers, internal report says<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice announced lawsuits Thursday against four Democrat-led states that have policies blocking ICE from obtaining registrations for vehicles used in undercover work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[402,565],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-department-of-justice","tag-ice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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