The Justice Department is linking public safety money to immigration enforcement

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Source: NPR

Updated June 22, 20265:00 AM ET


The Justice Department is offering nearly $1 billion in federal public safety grants for cities and police departments across the country. But the grants, announced this month, come with a catch: Local officials have to be willing to work with federal immigration officers.

The move is part of a larger push from the Trump administration to entice cities and their police forces to work more closely with federal immigration officers, a shift officials at the DOJ and the Department of Homeland Security have been quietly making in the aftermath of the highly visible — and highly unpopular — immigration enforcement surges in cities like Minneapolis and Chicago in recent months.

"They are trying to take dollars that local agencies have been depending on for years and saying, 'Oh, well, if you want these dollars, then you need to help us out with our immigration enforcement work," says Tahir Duckett, executive director of the Center for Innovations in Community Safety at Georgetown Law.

About $700 million of the grant money comes from the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services within the DOJ. These funding opportunities, known as COPS grants, have existed since 1994. Historically, they are one of the largest sources of federal funding for local police. In the last three decades, COPS grants have sent more than $20 billion to cities across the country.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2026/06/18/nx-s1-5854955/the-doj-is-doling-out-local-police-grants-with-a-catch

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1. Clearly a move to

buy off local LEOs to the Republicans tyrannical way of thinking........The have recognized that they need the local LEOs, in lock step, to dominate locales around America, as well as having congress and the supreme court.

Federal Storm Troopers, Gestapo, etc need troops at a local level to execute their wishes......all they have to do is to elevate their racism to achieve the Leadership's wishes...........then direct them towards members of the other political party......

Obviously, the Republicans/Trump have studied Hitler's Nazi Party as a game plan on how it is done......too many obvious similarities to be a coincidence.......

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2. How cute! "entice" ...the Trump administration to entice cities and their police forces...

Entice?????????

an enticement is a legitimate and ethical way of persuading someone to take a desired action. It involves offering something of value to someone as an incentive to do something, without any coercion or dishonesty.

More like bribe or threaten

A bribe is a dishonest or illegal act of offering something in exchange for a desired outcome. It is a form of corruption and can have serious legal consequences.

And this bothsiderism.... are they for real with this:

It is not unusual for federal grant money to be tied to a political agenda. During the Obama administration, for instance, the DOJ gave additional consideration to agencies that said they wanted to build trust in their communities. That was just a few years after the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. During President Joe Biden's years in office, priority was given to cities that used community approaches to violence intervention.