Schneiderman vows to fight Trump’s sanctuary cities order

“If the president cuts funding back, it’ll be in Boston, New York, Chicago, LA, Minneapolis and Miami, and every city in the country just about”.

“If you look into the history, it was actually under [former President] Bill Clinton in 1996 that illegal-immigration reform was passed that specifically says that local governments are to cooperate with the department of homeland security and immigration and custom enforcement”, he added.

Trump took the first steps to make good on campaign promises to build a “wall” along the U.S. – Mexico and crack down on so-called sanctuary cities that shield undocumented immigrants from federal officials. His order calls for a renewed push on deportations and gives immigration officers vast leeway to expel undocumented immigrants from the U.S. So far, he has spared the Dreamers, young undocumented immigrants who received a reprieve from deportation under former President Barack Obama.

Despite the executive actions, Mayor Jim Kenney said Wednesday that he does not intend to reverse the city’s status as a sanctuary city.

Legally, the term sanctuary city has no specific definition.

NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill echoed similar sentiments at a press conference Wednesday, which de Blasio held after Trump signed the executive order.

“We were operating as a sanctuary city before we became an official sanctuary city”, Tinajero said.

A professor from Yale Law School, Peter Schuck, also called Trump’s executive order “extraordinarily broad” and said that one provision that states “ensure that jurisdictions that fail to comply with applicable Federal law do not receive Federal funds” could be read to mean all federal funding, not just law enforcement assistance going to sanctuary cities such as San Francisco, Austin and NY.

All 58 counties in California and most of the state’s police departments also decline to honor any ICE requests to hold immigrants beyond their jail sentences, reflecting a series of federal court rulings that found local jurisdictions liable if they hold people after their release dates. The idea is to hire a City Hall legal adviser with immigration expertise who also could help immigrants avoid the kind of mass deportation promised by Trump. “These jurisdictions have caused immeasurable harm to the American people and to the very fabric of our Republic”, the document said.

SANTA ANA (CBSLA.com) California has almost 45 sanctuary cities – including Los Angeles and Santa Ana.

“You enforce what the law is”. The speaker responded by saying she was “disgusted” by the president’s blatant lies and said she would defend all immigrants who do not “inflict violence on our communities”. These include building a wall along the US-Mexico border, deporting illegal immigrants, establishing new immigration detention centres and hiring 5,000 more Border Patrol agents.

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“We need to be clear on that, so we can communicate that more clearly to our undocumented residents, so that they know what to expect, so they know they can feel a level of trust”, Bidar said.

Taking such a pledge is a risk for the city, where a not-insignificant chunk of the budget comes from federal coffers each year.