Sanctuary Cities

In Maryland, Trump Order On Sanctuary Cities Draws Praise, Concern

... enforcement officers. The state under Gov. Martin O'Malley and several counties stopped honoring detainers in recent years. Jessica M. Vaughan is director of policy studies for the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies, which opposes illegal immigration. She said the order could put federal funding for police in Baltimore and Montgomery and Prince George's counties in jeopardy. Vaughan said it's less likely the Trump administration would go after the funding of local colleges. Baltimore has long sought immigrants to help offset a slow decline in population. In 2012, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake signed an executive order telling city police not to ask people their immigration status. Pugh said that approach will continue. She said she welcomes immigrants to Baltimore. "We ...

Trump Comes Down Hard On The Bay Area’s Sanctuary Cities

... measures that restrict federal funding on the fact that these jurisdictions are obstructing federal immigration policy. It takes two to create an impasse. These local jurisdictions could very easily avoid these sorts of situations.”. State Assemblywoman and Latino Caucus Vice Chairwoman ​Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, was quick to respond, releasing a statement calling Trump’s actions “embarrassingly un-American.”. ​”​Forcing police to freelance as border agents doesn’t make our communities safer, nor does wasting billions of American tax dollars to further divide our binational community with a border wall,” she said. “This is embarrassingly un-American.”. Spicer, the press secretary, said that “federal agencies are going to unapologetically enforce the law, no ifs, ands, or buts.” A program to aid Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in targeting undocumented immigrants for removal will be reinstated, Spicer said, and the State Department will withhold visas for nations who refuse to accept deportees being sent back to their home countries. Federal grant money will be stripped from so-called ...

Portland, Beaverton To Remain ‘sanctuary Cities

... US illegally. Councilor Lacey Beaty told KOIN 6 News many residents would live in fear that local law enforcement would target them for deportation and would be less apt to report a crime. “(Beaverton) is the safest city in the Northwest and keeping that designation is incredibly important,” Beaty said. Politicians in New York, Seattle and other “sanctuary cities” that protect immigrants who are in the U. S. illegally declared Wednesday they won’t be intimidated by a move by President Donald Trump to cut off millions in federal funding to such communities. Residents were scared, she said, “and not necessarily because they were illegal, but because of their skin color. And how are we going to differentiate between a Latino that is here legally and a Latino who is here illegally?”. Being a sanctuary city comes at a cost. Portland would lose 1.3% of its budget from federal grants. Beaverton would lose $1.6 million, but Beaty said it’s less than 1% of the Beaverton budget. “Some ...

How Trump Can Defund 'sanctuary Cities' Protecting Undocumented Immigrants

... However, the 3 rd U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ruled in 2014 that local police departments are not required to hold undocumented immigrants for ICE. "Justice could spend all of its time and resources going after these cases," Brown said. GRANT MONEY. The two most likely federal agencies that could cut off funding are Justice and Homeland Security. They provide grants for local law enforcement agencies to hire officers; bolster prosecutions, courts and jails; provide drug treatment, prepare for terrorist attacks, and assist crime victims and witnesses. The Trump administration has the power to cut off much of that funding. For example, Justice's State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, or SCAAP, distributed $165 million in 2015 to local agencies that detained undocumented immigrants in its jails. Laurie Robinson, a former assistant attorney general under Presidents Clinton and Obama who headed the Office of Justice Programs, which oversees grants, said the statute implementing SCAAP gives an attorney general broad power to decide who gets money. "They could cut off drug ...

Trump To Announce Actions Targeting Sanctuary Cities, Top Ally Says

... the sanctuary cities announcement during a speech Wednesday to the conservative Heritage Foundation. He called it a “common sense” action that would “drive the left crazy.”. The move would fulfill one of Trump's signature campaign promises: forcing police in such major jurisdictions as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago to work more closely with immigration officials and demand local jails hold people who are in the country illegally, even if they were cleared of criminal charges. Federal funding for those cities and counties could be put at risk by the order, as officials at the departments of Justice and Homeland Security review what types of grants could be withheld. Exactly how much funding would be stripped is unclear, and it could take months for the full impact of the order to be seen. Police chiefs in many towns have said that working closely with federal immigration officials undermines trust with the immigrant community and makes people less likely to report crimes or testify as witnesses. In many sanctuary cities, police do work with ...

What You Need To Know About Trump’s Executive Order

... the portion of the order referencing sanctuary cities. Sec. 9. Sanctuary Jurisdictions. It is the policy of the executive branch to ensure, to the fullest extent of the law, that a State, or a political subdivision of a State, shall comply with 8 U. S. C. 1373. (a) In furtherance of this policy, the Attorney General and the Secretary, in their discretion and to the extent consistent with law, shall ensure that jurisdictions that willfully refuse to comply with 8 U. S. C. 1373 (sanctuary jurisdictions) are not eligible to receive Federal grants, except as deemed necessary for law enforcement purposes by the Attorney General or the Secretary. The Secretary has the authority to designate, in his discretion and to the extent consistent with law, a jurisdiction as a sanctuary jurisdiction. The Attorney General shall take appropriate enforcement action against any entity that violates 8 U. S. C. 1373, or which has in effect a statute, policy, or practice that prevents or hinders the enforcement of Federal law. (b) To ...

What Are Sanctuary Cities, And Can They Be Defunded

... according to experts. The courts have also ruled that funding decisions may not be used to "coerce" states into actions. But something like the JAG program, which supports law enforcement, might be considered germane to the issue. In South Dakota v. Dole , the Supreme Court ruled in 1987 on Congress using highway funds to enforce a national drinking age, upheld past case law that federal grant restrictions may not pass muster "if they are unrelated 'to the federal interest in particular national projects or programs,'" and most also be to promote "general welfare." That ruling specifically applied to Congress, but would certainly be cited in any litigation over Trump's order. And in a more recent case brought by conservatives against President Barack Obama's health care law, the Supreme Court held in 2012 that withholding Medicaid funds from states that did not cooperate was "coercion," and thus unconstitutional. Another case written by a conservative icon, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, is also cited as a possible defense for sanctuary cities. In Printz v. US , a case on gun rights, Scalia wrote, citing case law: "The Federal Government may not compel the ...

Some N.j. Sanctuary Cities Plan To Ignore Trump's Executive Order

... it is important for the Maplewood Township Committee to be very clear about our intentions of upholding constitutional rights and liberties for all," Maplewood Mayor Vic De Luca said in a statement when the ordinance was passed. "We will not participate in dividing people based on citizenship or immigration status nor will we profile or register people because of where they are from or what they believe.". Advocacy agencies like New Jersey Working Families and the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice have pledged support to other towns looking to implement similar policies, and have promised to work toward making New Jersey a "sanctuary state." Even a group of teachers in Newark have gotten into the debate , presenting a petition to the school district Tuesday asking it to conceal information about its immigrant students. East Orange Mayor Lester Taylor Wednesday echoed the comments of his fellow mayors, while admitting ...

What You Should Know About Sanctuary Cities

... cities are carrying the torch first lit by those sacred altars, stating that they will not fully comply with federal laws that target undocumented immigrants. The first of these is thought to be Los Angeles, and dates back to 1979, when the city sought to prevent authorities from detaining people for the sole reason of finding out their immigration status. Now there are sanctuary cities all over the country and not just the usual suspects like Boston; Austin, Texas; Boulder, Colorado; and Madison, Wisconsin, but far-flung towns in Florida, Iowa, and Kansas. If the mandate of the ancient sanctuary cities was to offer asylum to those accused of corporal crimes, these modern versions seek to provide protection for people who have come here, like so many immigrants before them, merely seeking opportunities to work and a better life. Or as now California Senator Kamala Harris put it: “We have to get smart, and understand the vast majority of these undocumented immigrants are following the law, working hard, raising their children, paying taxes—and we have to provide a pathway for them. Sanctuary cities evolved around the idea that we also don’t want to deny ...

Somerville Risks Losing At Least $6 Million As Sanctuary City

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De Blasio Vows To Defy Trump Funding Threat To 'sanctuary Cities

... Controller Scott Stringer. Trump signs order authorizing work on Mexico border wall. The Supreme Court has ruled that the feds can’t coerce localities into doing its bidding by taking away unrelated money. “There is less here than meets the eye,” Hizzoner said of the order, noting the vagueness of its language. The order appears to mandate that sanctuary cities not get grants from the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice, but contains exceptions for money judged necessary for law enforcement or required by law. “It appears to be frankly more gesture than legal force,” said the city’s top lawyer, Corporation Counsel Zachary Carter. But if there is a concrete move to nix grants, the city will go to court within “the next hour” to seek an injunction to stop it, de Blasio said. President Trump signs an executive order to start the Mexico border wall project. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty ...