The Justice Department is reviewing the “outrageous” warning from Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf to the community of a large-scale operation by federal immigration services, the White House said Thursday.

“I think it’s outrageous that a mayor is bypassing the federal authorities with such a step and is definitely putting them in danger. And that’s currently under review by the Justice Department and I have nothing to add, ”said press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders in her afternoon briefing at the White House.

Schaaf said it issued the warning Saturday night after receiving confidential information that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Service, known as ICE, was planning arrests across the Bay Area. Her spokesman, Justin Berton, said Thursday that she was unaware of the review mentioned by Huckabee Sanders.

More than 150 people were arrested in the raid, but the incumbent ICE director Thomas Homan blamed Schaaf for escaping hundreds of other agents. He compared the mayor’s warning to “a gang lookout yelling ‘police'”.

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Legal experts said it was unlikely that Schaaf could be charged with obstruction of justice. Her press release from the weekend is vague and proving corrupt intent is difficult.

“It cannot be corrupt intent to simply want someone to be prosecuted,” said Professor Robert Weisberg of Stanford Law School. “This is only fought between the Feds and the locals, but I don’t think obstacles will come into play. How would that differ from someone saying, ‘The San Francisco Police Department is spending more resources on patrolling Neighborhood X for drugs’? “

None of the warnings would directly affect an investigation and therefore not count as a disability, Weisberg said.

Kimberly Veklerov is the author of the San Francisco Chronicle. Email: kveklerov @

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