"Well, we still don't know exactly what the president wants to cut or exactly which cities and states are going to be the targets. But the president has given a date of February 1. He said the cuts will be significant, and he seems to be focused on places that limit their cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Here's what Trump said about that on - in Detroit on Tuesday."
"This is not, though, the first time the Trump administration has made this kind of threat, going back all the way to the first Trump administration. More recently, President Trump signed an executive order almost a year ago directing the departments of Justice and Homeland Security to make a list of sanctuary cities and withhold money from them. But courts have consistently sided against the administration in almost every case saying that the federal government cannot use funding to coerce state and local governments into changing their policies on immigration."
"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. So we're not making any payment to anybody that supports sanctuary cities."
Unrest in Minnesota followed the killing of Renee Macklin Good by an immigration agent. The administration has threatened to cut funding to sanctuary cities, naming a February 1 deadline but not specifying targets or amounts. The stated focus is on jurisdictions that limit cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The president characterized sanctuary policies as protecting criminals and pledged to withhold payments from supportive jurisdictions. An earlier executive order directed Justice and Homeland Security to list sanctuary cities and withhold funds. Courts have largely ruled that the federal government cannot coerce state and local governments by withholding money to change immigration policies.
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