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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSessions Targets Four Sanctuary Cities for Punishment
Trump and his vile cabinet are really hurting people this week.
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Oct 12 2017, 1:43 pm ET
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Sessions Targets Four Sanctuary Cities for Punishment
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/sessions-targets-four-sanctuary-cities-punishment-n810131?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
by Dartunorro Clark
The Justice Department has given four major U.S. cities a "last chance" to prove they are not so-called sanctuary cities before losing millions of dollars in critical crime-fighting aid, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Thursday.
Chicago, New Orleans, New York and Philadelphia were all determined to have "laws, policies or practices" that violated a federal statute that requires jurisdictions to comply with federal immigration officials and help to deport suspected undocumented immigrants held in local jails, according to the department.
Sanctuary cities are local governments that limit police cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
[Jeff Sessions says U.S. Immigration System 'is Being Terribly Abused']
Jeff Sessions says U.S. Immigration System 'is Being Terribly Abused' 1:20
Jurisdictions that adopt so-called sanctuary policies also adopt the view that the protection of criminal aliens is more important than the protection of law-abiding citizens and of the rule of law, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement.
Sessions has repeatedly vowed to withhold federal public safety grants from cities that do not cooperate, and his threat Thursday was the latest effort by the Trump administration to hamstring local authorities who refuse to help federal agents detain and deport people living in the country illegally.
President Donald Trump issued an executive order in January aimed at cutting off funding from sanctuary cities. However, the order has been in legal limbo after a judge issued a nationwide injunction in April.
The department sent the letters on Wednesday to the four cities as well as Cook County, Illinois, which includes Chicago and its sprawling suburbs.
Each jurisdiction has until Oct. 27 to demonstrate they do not have policies in place that restrict law enforcement officers and city employees from fully cooperating with federal immigration officers about the immigration status of criminals who may be in the country illegally. ..............
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Sessions Targets Four Sanctuary Cities for Punishment (Original Post)
riversedge
Oct 2017
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SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)1. Attack of the Racist
LisaM
(27,808 posts)2. Note how he chose cities with higher crime rates....
How come San Francisco and Seattle aren't on this list? Not poor enough?
mrs_p
(3,014 posts)3. I expected them all to be on the
West coast. San Fran, Seattle, Portland, LA since this admin seems to hate us so much. But then again, they offer nothing but hate and have plenty to go around.
LisaM
(27,808 posts)5. He's been after Chicago for a while, picking on them.
By threatening to - or actually - withholding money from these cities, he will cite the higher crime rates that will ensue as an excuse to do - well, who knows what, but it won't be pretty.
Stuart G
(38,421 posts)4. This one....is very very stupid indeed.
It won't go well with all the cities in the U.S.A. Dumb, Dumb, and even more Dumb!!!