""No more payments will be made by the federal government to states for their corrupt criminal protection centers known as sanctuary cities," he reiterated in a post on social media Wednesday."
""All they do is breed crime and violence.""
""This administration has repeatedly tried to withhold funding or impose illegal funding conditions on our city and many others. We've already taken legal action to protect our federal funding, and we're going to continue to do so.""
President Donald Trump announced a plan to withhold federal funding from cities and states with sanctuary immigration policies beginning Feb. 1. The administration described sanctuary jurisdictions as "corrupt criminal protection centers" that "breed crime and violence." Attorney General Rob Bonta and Bay Area cities promised legal action if federal payments are stopped. San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu cited repeated federal-court rulings that sanctuary policies are lawful and pledged continued litigation to protect funding. The funding threat was framed by Chiu as a potential distraction from recent immigration-enforcement shootings, including the Minneapolis incident involving an ICE agent.
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