The Department of Justice is pressuring California sheriffs to turn over information on noncitizen inmates, warning it will use subpoenas if necessary to obtain the records as part of President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement priorities, The Hill reported.

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday sent letters to multiple California county sheriffs, requesting a list “of all inmates in their county jails who are not citizens of the United States, their crimes of arrest or conviction, and their scheduled release dates.”

Bondi gave sheriffs 30 days to comply.

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