The Biden administration has withdrawn a Supreme Court challenge of the previous administration’s cuts to federal public safety funding for sanctuary cities, leaving in place a Ninth Circuit ruling protecting $28 million in Justice Department grants to California cities.
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The Ninth Circuit on Monday scaled back a nationwide injunction that blocks the Trump administration from cutting off grants to sanctuary jurisdictions, finding it should only apply to California.
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A sharply worded ruling by a federal appeals court in Chicago on Thursday said the Trump administration policy of threatening to withhold grant money from so-called sanctuary cities to force them to comply with its more stringent immigration policies violates separation-of-powers provisions enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
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The city of San Antonio claims in a federal lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security that government officials helped the Texas attorney general build his case against the city over a sanctuary ban but stonewalled requests for evidence and testimony.
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A group of Illinois sheriffs sued the state attorney general Monday over a law prohibiting police from arresting anyone based solely on their immigration status, which the sheriffs argue forces them to choose between enforcing state or federal law but not both.
Read moreTouting the indictment of two gang members following a joint investigation by local police and feds, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California on Thursday blasted San Francisco policies that limit cooperation with federal agents.
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In a rebuke to nearly 100 cities and counties, Virginia’s Democratic attorney general said in an advisory opinion Friday that local pro-Second Amendment laws declaring an exemption from statewide gun safety measures are invalid.
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The Ninth Circuit Tuesday denied Los Angeles’ petition for a rehearing of a decision that allowed the Justice Department to withhold law enforcement funding from sanctuary cities that do not comply with its immigration policies.
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Defending two key immigration policies before a Ninth Circuit panel Monday, a Trump administration lawyer struggled to explain why the safety of migrants was not considered in a rule that makes most immigrants arriving at the southern border ineligible for asylum.
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Voters in Tucson, the home of the sanctuary movement that swept the nation in the 1980s, soundly rejected a return to those roots Tuesday.
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Tucson voters will decide Tuesday whether the city that gave birth to the 1980s Sanctuary Movement should offer limited sanctuary for undocumented immigrants.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel sided with a federal judge Thursday, upholding a decision to bar the Justice Department from imposing special conditions on policing grants for cities that refuse to help federal authorities detain and deport undocumented immigrants.
Read moreReversing, a divided Ninth Circuit panel ruled Friday the Justice Department acted lawfully when it withheld federal grants from Los Angeles for refusing to comply with the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
Read moreThe Republican-controlled Florida Legislature approved a broad measure targeting so-called “sanctuary cities” on Thursday, despite the state not having any cities with policies aimed at protecting undocumented immigrants.
Read morePresident Trump is spreading misleading rhetoric about illegal immigration. At a Wisconsin rally, he said he’s launched his plan to transport immigrants in the United States illegally to sanctuary cities in mass numbers — “my sick idea,” he proudly called it. There’s no evidence that’s happening.
Read morePresident Donald Trump suggested Monday that his threat to ship immigrants to so-called sanctuary cities is taking effect, even though it remains unclear whether such a plan is feasible.
Read moreAn idea floated by President Trump to send immigrants from the border to “sanctuary cities” to exact revenge on Democratic foes could end up doing the immigrants a favor by placing them in locations that make it easier to put down roots and stay in the country.
Read moreThe White House considered a plan to release detained immigrants into “sanctuary cities,” three people familiar with the idea confirmed Friday — a plan that critics branded as an effort to use migrants as pawns to go after political opponents.
Read moreSeventh Circuit Judge Ilana Rovner confessed Wednesday that her concern for the separation of powers haunts her dreams during oral arguments in the Trump administration’s second appeal of an injunction blocking its attempt to financially punish so-called sanctuary cities for refusing to enforce federal immigration laws.
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