EXCLUSIVE: The SHIELD Act — Safeguarding Homeland Immigration Enforcement from Local Detention — would bar local police from arresting federal agents, a response to recent Democratic claims that state and local officials should be able to intervene.Efforts from the left to stymie President Donald Trump’s "mass deportation" endeavor have often been tied up in court, such as when Obama-appointed Judge William Orrick threw cold water on a prior effort to strip sanctuary cities of federal funding.On Friday, House Budget Committee chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, will introduce the SHIELD Act, wh...
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