The Trump administration is doubling its efforts to combat sanctuary jurisdictions, and like his executive orders, Trump is flooding the zone against the tactics used by those rogue jurisdictions and the cartels to keep the cash cow of illegal immigration afloat. First comes the funding: Newly-confirmed Attorney General Pam Bondi announced as one of her first acts that the Department of Justice is enacting a ban on federal funding to sanctuary jurisdictions. This includes San Diego County, where its Board of Supervisors voted to become a "Super Sanctuary" county, despite pleas from its citizens to control the illegal invasion and the subsequent crime and destruction that comes along with it.

In one of her first official actions as U.S. Attorney General, Pam Bondi has ordered a ban on federal funding from the Department of Justice to sanctuary cities and counties, including San Diego County. The directive, issued just hours after Bondi's swearing-in, targets jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

San Diego County, which voted in December to become a "sanctuary county," is among the areas potentially affected by this new policy. The county's current stance is to uphold federal law while not using local resources to assist in federal immigration enforcement.

Terra Lawson-Remer, acting chair of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, said that the county's policy would not change in response to Bondi's directive. 

"We are not going to be participating in any type of effort around mass deportations," Lawson-Remer told CBS 8. "I'm very clear that it is a terrible waste of public resources in addition to it being frankly unconscionable."

The Attorney General's order also calls for DOJ officials to investigate instances of sanctuary jurisdictions allegedly obstructing law enforcement and "directing they be prosecuted, when necessary."

UC San Diego Political Science Professor Thad Kousser highlighted the potential impact of this directive, saying, "What this means if sanctuary cities are denied funds if we don't have judges step in and have a temporary restraining order, that could block more than a billion dollars across the country in funds that have nothing to do with immigration."

The citizens of San Diego are fully on board with Bondi and Border Czar Tom Homan's actions, whether Lawson-Remer and her fellow travelers are or are not. Citizens want to see the federal government deal with the illegal influx, which, now that the border is more secure, has refocused from the land to the waters. San Diegans are getting their wish, as President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth have mobilized the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. military to patrol the beaches.

🚨The military has arrived in California at Carlsbad State Beach to guard the coast from smuggler boats. They are now conducting ocean surveillance, especially at South Ponto—a known hotspot. While there, the military also took down all the DEI literature from government walls. pic.twitter.com/sGJhM65sJk

— Amy Reichert (@amyforsandiego) February 7, 2025

Under orders from President Donald Trump, the U.S. military is coordinating with federal partners to remove illegal foreign nationals and the U.S. Coast Guard expanded operations nationwide, The Center Square reported.

Trump deployed 1,500 troops to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection sectors of San Diego and El Paso, including 1,000 Army soldiers and 500 Marines. Among them are those providing airlift support to facilitate the deportation of more than 5,000 people who were detained after already being processed for removal, The Center Square reported.

To support this effort, the Coast Guard surged assets and personnel from Air Stations Elizabeth City, Kodiak, Sacramento, San Diego, and Hawaii to California and Texas.

The Coast Guard’s current role is “to assist with the national transport of aliens to designated locations in Texas and California, where the Department of Defense will transport the aliens internationally,” it says.

This is a huge deal. For years, this has been a staging area for the cartels. They send a boatload of illegal aliens to San Diego beaches like Carlsbad and Oceanside; they crash the boats, then scatter onto land and enter the interior.

The Coast Guard was on the case soon after the January 20 inauguration, apprehending 16 illegal immigrants who were attempting to invade.

The Coast Guard intercepted a boat with 16 illegal aliens on board about 15 miles off the coast of Mission Bay in California on Sunday morning.

The Coast Guard said in a press release that at about 12 a.m., cutter Active notified Joint Harbor Operations Center of a 25-foot panga-style vessel with about 15-20 people on board, about a mile south of their position.

A panga boat is a narrow, high-bowed type of vessel often used by drug and human smugglers. The cutter Active and a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations boat crew launched boarding teams to assess the situation.

During the investigation, the Coast Guard boarding team discovered 16 immigrants aboard the panga.

 As the Center Square reported, this particular unit of the Coast Guard is also working on repatriating illegals back to larger detention facilities or back to their home countries.

Led by the Eleventh Coast Guard District in California, crews are coordinating multiple flight units to support deportation efforts. This includes transporting those already processed for removal to designated locations in Texas and California to picked up by military flights and transported to their country of origin.

Coast Guard crew in the 11th District based out of San Diego also continue to interdict foreign nationals attempting to illegally enter the U.S. from Mexico via the Pacific Ocean.

And those home countries are not just Mexico or South American countries. 

The problem is On Jan. 29, Coast Guard crew interdicted a panga with 14 Mexican nationals 20 miles off the coast of Point Loma. The day before, they interdicted 21 foreign nationals from Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador in roughly the same area.

A few days before that, they interdicted 26 foreign nationals from multiple countries, including Mexico, China and Vietnam, roughly one mile off shore from Oceanside Harbor.

A few days before that, they interdicted 15 foreign nationals on a 25-foot panga-style vessel roughly 25 miles off Point Loma. The vessel collided with a Coast Guard cutter after drifting erratically. Those on board who were apprehended were from China, Uzbekistan, Mexico, Ecuador, Vietnam and El Salvador.

Everyone interdicted at sea was turned over to Border Patrol to be processed for removal.

@KristiNoem please come to San Diego. We have an abundance of criminal illegals here. We have boats doing amphibious landings with dozens of military aged men scattering on the beaches in Carlsbad and others. It literally looks like an invasion

— AgentSmith 🇺🇸 (@Tristansmith727) January 28, 2025

The two prongs of choke points on the ground and in the water serve the purpose of cutting off the spigot that illegals flow through. In turn, the choke point of funding means that the cartels and American actors who benefit from the trafficking won't be getting a payday.