Sanctuary Cities like Rockville Maryland, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York city are now barred from receiving funds from the Department of Justice, because of their protecting of illegal aliens. Cue the leftist Democrat and media outrage.
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The Trump administration will bar cities, counties and states that don’t fully cooperate with federal immigration authorities from receiving federal law enforcement funding from the Justice Department, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday.
The announcement, coming on the heels of a rough week for Mr. Trump’s administration, suggested that the administration was doubling down on a core Trump campaign pledge to curtail illegal immigration. But the statement from Mr. Sessions didn’t appear to move beyond existing policy established by the Obama administration.
Mr. Sessions, addressing reporters in the White House briefing room, said that his agency would require jurisdictions seeking grants to certify they were complying with a section of the U.S. code that demands information sharing with federal immigration officials.
Mr. Sessions spoke at length of the problem of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants but said the policy announcement was merely reiterating an Obama administration stance adopted last year. “This policy is entirely consistent with…guidance issued last summer,” he said.