Following the recent shooting by ICE agents in Houston of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a construction worker who has allegedly resided illegally in the country for nearly 35 years, Mike Fox, a legal fellow in the Cato Institute’s Project on Criminal Justice, has a new op-ed in the Houston Ch ronicle. In it, he discusses how this is further evidence that state and local officials should not comply when federal agents are deployed to cities, writing in part:

“Local authorities retain the sovereign option to safeguard their communities by immediately withholding local law enforcement personnel, intelligence, facilities, and logistical support from federal operations that run afoul of constitutional parameters. Withholding that cooperation is the only way for local officials to stay true to their constitutional oaths.”

To speak with Fox further on the ICE shooting in Houston, contact Christopher Tarvardian.