The Trump administration has employed a new legal tactic that essentially bypasses so-called “sanctuary city” policies that forbid local police departments from assisting federal immigration enforcement.

Police agencies in sanctuary jurisdictions are barred from honoring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers for illegal migrants arrested by local authorities. However, as journalist Marc Thiessen pointed out during a Tuesday segment on Fox News, the Trump administration is now charging migrants who have illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border more than once with felonies, which local jurisdictions cannot ignore.

“Two elections now, Donald Trump has beaten the Democrats, powered by illegal immigration, and they still can’t seem to get it right,” Thiessen, a Washington Post columnist and former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, told anchor Shannon Bream. “You have people literally burning cars, throwing rocks at ICE agents, and the Democrats are siding with the protesters over the administration trying to restore law and order.”