Once Essayli and Co. have determined that someone has committed a felony by re-entering the country, the whole game changes:

"As soon as the task force ID's an alien booked into a local jail who has a previous deportation, they seek a federal criminal warrant on them for felony re-entry, signed off on by a federal judge.

"Unlike an administrative ICE warrant or ICE detainer request, these criminal judicial warrants for 8 USC 1326 CANNOT be ignored by sanctuary jurisdictions, and California's sanctuary state law cannot shield aliens from these criminal warrants. Instead of releasing the alien inmates and ignoring ICE detainers, jails must hand the aliens over to the Feds, regardless of sanctuary policy." //

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_
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UPDATE: US Attorney in LA Bill Essayli tells me since our report aired yesterday, he's been contacted by several other US Attorneys in sanctuary jurisdictions around the country, including CA, who are interested in taking part in this operation to "neutralize" sanctuary policies. He has calls & meetings set up to explain how to do it for other jurisdictions.
11:34 AM · May 20, 2025 //

Expect a snowball effect here - for a long time, sanctuary jurisdictions and activists have demanded of ICE "where is your warrant?!". Now, the federal plan is to "flood the system" with criminal judicial warrants which can't be ignored by local jails, and instead of just being deported, the targeted illegal aliens will now go to federal prison first - all due to lack of cooperation from sanctuary jurisdictions.