Worse, the Justice Department has actually been threatening to withhold federal aid (under the National Public Safety Partnership) from Baltimore unless it provides DHS with greater access to information about immigrant detainees. Not only are they barking up the wrong tree, they appear happy to set the tree on fire, chop it down and grind down the stump while they are at it. The murders clearly mean nothing to the Trump administration, and they are even less interested in how a crackdown on undocumented immigrants makes it tougher for police officers to do their jobs. As Commissioner Kevin Davis has pointed out more than once, this focus on immigration status simply means Baltimore's immigrant community, documented or undocumented, is going to be less likely to cooperate with law enforcement.