Two Texas district attorneys notorious for being soft on crime have joined a coalition of “progressive” prosecutors targeting what they call “lawless actions of federal forces in states and cities around the country”—especially the ongoing efforts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to remove criminals in the U.S. illegally.
Democrat DAs José Garza of Austin and John Creuzot of Dallas are among nine George Soros-linked prosecutors nationwide participating in the Project for the Fight Against Federal Overreach, according to a press release from the group.
Participants plan to convene in February to “share strategies and best practices among prosecutors, provide regular public updates on efforts to rein in unlawful federal conduct, and educate the public on what paths are legally available.”
Strategies will likely focus mostly on publicity, as legal options are limited. Federal agents are largely immune from state and local prosecution for actions deemed necessary to their duties, and efforts to prosecute them for other alleged state offenses are usually removed to federal court.
“We should be honest and clear that it is difficult, but we also have to be honest and clear that it is not impossible,” Garza, who has a reputation of being soft on crime while prosecuting police, told KXAN.
“Unfortunately, initiatives like this have become necessary due to actions taken by federal officials across the country—most notably and recently in Minnesota,” according to a press release from Creuzot, another soft-on-crime DA often at odds with local police. His failures to prosecute “low-level” crimes and releases of violent suspects with low or no bail earned him the nickname “Let ‘Em Go” Creuzot in Dallas.
“As local leaders, we are coming together to share resources and ideas to combat violent crime that is the result of federal overreach,” added Creuzot.
Yet federal officials place much of the blame for the two fatalities in Minneapolis on local police failing to restrain violent agitators interfering with ICE operations.
At the direction of Minnesota’s Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Minneapolis Mayor Tim Frey, police have also failed to protect citizens as anti-ICE agitators block traffic, erect barricades, and vandalize local businesses they believe are serving federal agents.
St. Paul Police Federation President Mark Ross also blamed Minnesota politicians for the anti-ICE protest violence.
Ross told the New York Post last week that if local police were allowed to work with the feds, it likely would have prevented the killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
“Had we been allowed just a little bit of coordination… there would be no loss of life at this point,” he said. “Unfortunately, our local politicians would not allow us to do that.”
Other progressive prosecutors promoting anti-federal agent messaging include DAs from Hennepin County (Minneapolis), Minnesota; Pima County, Arizona; four jurisdictions in Virginia; and Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner, who recently called ICE agents “wannabe Nazis” and threatened that the new group would “hunt down” federal agents after President Donald Trump is out of office “like we hunted down Nazis.”
The group is being supported by an anti-Trump club called Defiance.org.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott responded, saying local prosecutors “should be working with, not against, federal law enforcement to enforce the law and keep our communities safe.”
“Cooperation — not obstruction from soft-on-crime district attorneys — is how we uphold the Constitution and ensure justice for all,” Abbott posted to X. “Texas DA’s should be focused on prosecuting crimes in Texas, not joining committees seeking to undermine the rule of law.”
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