"President Donald Trump said Tuesday that starting Feb. 1 he will deny federal funding to any states that are home to local governments resisting his administration's immigration policies, expanding on previous threats to cut off resources to the so-called sanctuary cities themselves. Such an action could have far-reaching impacts across the U.S., potentially even in places that aren't particularly friendly to noncitizens."
""Starting Feb. 1, we're not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities, because they do everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American citizens and it breeds fraud and crime and all of the other problems that come," he said. "So we're not making any payment to anybody that supports sanctuary cities.""
"In an executive orders last year, the president directed federal officials to withhold money from sanctuary jurisdictions that seek to shield people in the country illegally from deportation. A California-based federal judge struck it down despite government lawyers saying it was too early to stop the plan when no action had been taken and no specific conditions had been laid out."
President Donald Trump announced that starting Feb. 1 he will deny federal funding to any state that contains local governments resisting federal immigration enforcement, expanding previous threats focused on sanctuary cities. The administration did not specify which funds would be affected, only indicating the cuts would be significant. Courts previously blocked similar efforts, with federal judges striking down executive orders and funding-withholding attempts. There is no strict legal definition of sanctuary policies, which generally describe limited cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Justice Department previously published a list of jurisdictions tied to those policies.
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