||| FROM WALL STREET JOURNAL |||
The Trump administration on Thursday named counties and cities in more than 30 states, including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle, as sanctuary jurisdictions it could go after for not complying with federal immigration laws.
President Trump has threatened to pull federal funding and pursue lawsuits against places that don’t change their practices.
Sanctuary cities place limits on asking residents about their immigration status and on helping federal officials with immigration enforcement. That makes it harder for the administration to arrest people who are in the U.S. illegally and makes Trump’s push for mass deportations more difficult.
Trump in late April ordered the attorney general and the Department of Homeland Security to identify these cities and states within a month.
Several of the administration’s executive orders have called for withholding funds from sanctuary cities, leading to litigation from cities and states. A federal judge in California in April barred the federal government from withholding funds from cities and counties in the state under the executive orders while the case continues.
New York City is one of the sanctuary jurisdictions the Trump administration says could lose funding. Photo: Ron Adar/SOPA Images/Zuma Press
That judge criticized the failure of the executive orders to define which jurisdictions were sanctuaries.
The DHS list contained counties and cities across New England, and on the West Coast in Washington, California and Oregon, along with jurisdictions in Hawaii and Alaska. Cities and counties in New Mexico, Tennessee, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and Minnesota were also named, as well as Washington, D.C.
“We are exposing these sanctuary politicians who harbor criminal illegal aliens and defy federal law,” said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
Sanctuary cities and counties
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Crucially missing from the excerpted article:
“After the list’s release, more than 50 government leaders from sanctuary jurisdictions, including some involved in the lawsuit that won the preliminary injunction, and the Public Rights Project said they would continue to oppose Trump’s immigration crackdown.
“The administration’s actions and threats defy the Constitution and decades of legal precedent. The courts rejected this playbook in 2017, and the law hasn’t changed,” the coalition said.”