Brainiac,
You need to educate yourself. If you lie or misrepresent facts and people are harmed it's a crime. In this case referrals have already been made to the justice department for criminal investigation.
Please list the federal statute/s that makes lying which causes someone to get hurt a crime.
If you're going to pretend to be a lawyer, at least have enough pride to know what statutes you're talking about.
Then explain who was hurt by the lies. The illegals? Nope. They got taken care of. The residents of the recipient cities? Nope. They asked for this by declaring themselves "sanctuaries" for illegals.
#Braniac
Hint:
Not all falsehoods are lies. The misrepresentation must be knowingly and willfully offered. If they believe something is true, it's not a lie.
If engaged in a transaction in which you knowingly lie, you MIGHT be guilty of fraud. Since you don't know exactly what was told to the illegal aliens being given free transport to sanctuary cities, you can't accuse anyone of fraud.
If they knowingly lied to a LE officer or other government official, depending on the situation, it MIGHT be considered perjury or "lying to a government agent." Since the agents involved were part of the process, I don't think any of them were lied to.
There's no crime for generally lying regardless of the consequences -- only specific instances such as fraud, deceptive statements or lying to government officials. All of that requires a knowledge the facts are false and were done to convince someone to do something they would not otherwise do.
I think we all know the illegals were happy to be getting as far away from the Mexican border as possible.