Conover joins the county attorney in Minneapolis and locally-elected prosecutors in jurisdictions in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Texas plan to compare strategies, coordinate action, and confront federal overreach.
“If you come into our community in Southern Arizona, I don't care what you are wearing or what agency you claim, if you break state law and you cause us harm, I will do everything in my power to bring you into court and to hold you to account," she said during a press conference Wednesday.
She said for decades Southern Arizona has been a welcoming community for people who are lawfully immigrating. But she says now many in the community are living in fear.
“Fear to go to school, fear to go to work, fear to just live,” she said. “And at the same time, I am begging them to remain calm, to be smart, to go out there and protest as a community and do it peacefully, and to use de-escalation, even when we're faced with escalation and high risk on the other side.”
Coalition participants in the Fight Against Federal Overreach project plan to convene in early February to share strategies for pushing back against actions they consider lawless.
Prosecutors said that despite misinformation to the contrary, district attorneys do have the ability to prosecute federal officials.
