A career leader of the Justice Department office handling civil immigration litigation is resigning after he was told to join the Trump administration’s new sanctuary city task force, according to five people familiar with the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity.
David McConnell, a more than 30-year veteran of the department whose last day is Friday, chose to leave his post as director of the appeals section of the Office of Immigration Litigation, where he oversaw hundreds of attorneys, rather than move to the task force.
The Sanctuary Cities Enforcement Working Group, announced in a memo the day after ...
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