The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has sued four states for allegedly refusing to provide confidential license plates for federal agencies that enforce immigration laws.
The DOJ alleges in a May 28 press release that state officials in Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Washington implemented policies that effectively denied the license plates to any federal agency that may enforce immigration law.
The department says that the confidential license plates help prevent criminals from identifying federal agents and targeting them for harassment and attacks.
In the four complaints filed in the U.S. District Courts of each state, the DOJ says that local law enforcement agencies, as well as other federal agencies, do not have to follow the same process….