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Threats to prosecute sheriffs in Minneapolis and Chicago, cities that have experienced some of the most intense immigration enforcement of the Trump era, are a new salvo in the president’s campaign against state and local officials who refuse to embrace his administration’s crackdown. The warnings have been conveyed in a series of letters that federal agents began hand-delivering in early July -- to Sheriff Dawanna Witt of Hennepin County, Minn., which includes Minneapolis, -- and Sheriff Tom Dart of Cook County, Ill., which includes Chicago. Both are Democrats. The letters assert that failing to hand over inmates being sought by immigration agents could lead each elected official to be charged in federal court with witness tampering -- a felony. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/us/ice-minnesota-sheriff-prosecution.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share