The move amounts to a sweeping reversal of "sanctuary" policies in the nation's capital, allowing the Metropolitan Police Department, for the time being, to fully cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man charged with a felony for hurling a sandwich at a federal law-enforcement official in the nation’s capital has been fired from his job at the Justice Department, Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a social media post Thursday.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday she was ramping up pressure on 32 “sanctuary jurisdictions,” urging them to comply with federal immigration enforcement efforts. “I just sent Sanctuary

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

Attorney General Pam Bondi has named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration as Washington’s “emergency police commissioner,” saying she is granting him the powers of the police chief amid President Donald Trump’s takeover.

As the Trump administration sought to commander D.C. police to enforce immigration law, some fear the moves will make the city “less safe, not more safe.”

The Justice Department sent letters to sanctuary jurisdictions demanding cooperation with immigration enforcement or face legal action in court.

President Donald Trump announced earlier this week the decision to federalize Washington, D.C., as he cited crime and violence.

In a day of policy whiplash, D.C.’s police chief approves limited assistance in federal immigration enforcement, but Trump’s attorney general says a harder line is needed.

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