NEW YORK — The Trump administration has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to end sanctuary city law policies in New York City, arguing that the laws that protect migrants violates the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Brooklyn Federal Court, cites Sunday’s shooting of an off-duty Customs and Border Patrol officer in Fort Washington Park and the arrest of two migrants in the country illegally and contends that the city has “long been at the vanguard of interfering with enforcing this country’s immigration laws.”

The lawsuit is seeking to end city laws barring city resources and NYPD officers being used for immigration enforcement, and preventing city agencies like the Department of Correction and the police from honoring civil immigration detainers.

“The challenged provisions of New York City law reflect the City’s intentional effort to obstruct the United States’ enforcement of federal immigration law, by (among much else) impeding the consultation and communication between federal and local law enforcement officials that is necessary for the United States to enforce the law and keep Americans safe,” the lawsuit contends.

“New York City’s Sanctuary Provisions have the purpose and effect of making it more difficult for federal immigration officers to carry out their responsibilities in that jurisdiction.”

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