In addition to the funding threats, the administration is now opening up new fronts in the battle against the cities, filing lawsuits and issuing subpoenas in what Attorney General William Barr called part of a "signific ...
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Court Sides With Trump in ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Grant Fight
The Byrne Program was named for New York City Police Officer Edward Byrne, who at age 22 was shot to death while guarding the home of a Guyanese immigrant cooperating with authorities investigating drug trafficking. ...
Should the U.S. send migrants to ‘sanctuary cities’?
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Trump’s latest un-American scheme
President Trump has thumbed his nose at Lady Liberty with his bizarre notion of shipping undocumented migrants to sanctuary cities that he erroneously says advocate open American borders. ...
ICE is tracking immigrants with the help of California sanctuary cities, court records show
Civil rights groups in California want police and sheriff’s departments to stop sending license plate scanner information to a national private database, saying new public documents show federal immigration agents are us ...
‘Sanctuary’ Cities Are Getting Their Grants Despite Threats
A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled Feb. 15 that the Justice Department exceeded its authority and ordered a permanent, nationwide injunction against requiring police departments to cooperate with immigration authoritie ...
Even in Philadelphia, One of the Most Determined Sanctuary Cities, Refuge Is Elusive
Sanctuary cities, Sessions said, reject the law, reward criminals and put US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in peril. Then he smiled and began attacking Jim Kenney, Philadelphia’s Democratic mayor. ...
9th Circuit rules White House can’t withhold money from ‘sanctuary cities’
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that federal funding could be withheld only with congressional authorization. The appeals court also noted that the U.S. District Court went too far by blocking the policy natio ...
‘Sanctuary Cities’ Are Working In The Trump Era, But At A Surprising Cost
One recent early morning, as the sun rose, a young mother knocked at the Sacred Heart Parish rectory door. ...
The Trump administration’s arrogant crusade against ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions
Nowhere did Congress impose such conditions on the public-safety funds it approved to help local law enforcement. Nowhere is it written that localities are obligated to hand over undocumented immigrants upon completion o ...
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