In a strongly worded letter, the country’s chief law enforcement officer gave the governor an Aug. 19 deadline to respond.

Attorney General Pam Bondi issued an order rescinding sanctuary city policies in Washington, D.C. and naming an "emergency police commissioner."

The attorney general’s comments came as she issued a new directive voiding commands issued – as recently as earlier Thursday –  by DC Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith.

The demand is President Trump's latest salvo against Boston in its push to punish local governments it sees as unfriendly to its immigration policies.

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday evening ordered DC’s mayor and police department to accept Terry Cole, the head of the Drug Enforcement Agency, as the district’s “emergency police commissioner” and give him full control of the department during the federal takeover — quickly drawing rebukes from the district’s mayor and attorney general,

The back-and-forth with the Trump administration over what is a so-called sanctuary state has revved up again as Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed in a letter to state officials that Connecticut is violating federal laws on immigration. "This ends now," Attorney General Pamela Bondi wrote this week, threatening the potential for civil fines.