"Officials from 20 states and Washington, D.C., had signed on to a lawsuit filed in late August challenging the requirement. The federal conditions placed on the funds threatened to cut money to a state or subgrantee if it refused to honor civil immigration enforcement requests, denied U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers access to facilities or failed to provide advance notice of release dates of people possibly wanted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement because of their immigration status."
"Several Democratic state attorneys general say the Trump administration has backed away from requiring states to agree to cooperate with the president's immigration agenda in order to access federal money for programs that help victims of crime. In a series of news releases Friday, several of the attorneys general announced that federal Victims of Crime Act money was being released, enabling the states to fund victim assistance grants to nonprofits as well as their state compensation programs that provide direct aid to victims of violent crime."
"Faced with our lawsuit, the Trump Administration has abandoned its cruel attempt to impose illegal conditions on nearly $1.4 billion in funding that supports victims and survivors of crime as they navigate their trauma and work to get back"
Several Democratic state attorneys general reported that the Trump administration retreated from conditioning federal Victims of Crime Act funding on cooperation with immigration enforcement. Federal Victims of Crime Act money began being released, enabling states to fund victim assistance grants to nonprofits and state compensation programs that provide direct aid to victims of violent crime. Officials from 20 states and Washington, D.C., joined a late-August lawsuit challenging the requirements. The conditions threatened to cut funds if a state refused civil immigration enforcement requests, denied ICE access to facilities, or failed to provide advance notice of release dates. New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said the Department of Justice would remove those conditions, while the Office of Justice Programs did not respond because of the federal shutdown.
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