Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (proper) speaks as border czar Tom Homan appears to be like on throughout a White Home briefing on Monday.
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WASHINGTON — The White Home says President Donald Trump is anticipated to signal an government order on Monday geared toward figuring out sanctuary cities, a part of a broader effort to focus on jurisdictions that restrict their cooperation with immigration authorities.
The manager order will direct the Departments of Justice and Homeland Safety to determine jurisdictions the place native enforcement has declined to cooperate with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, in accordance with White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
“It is fairly easy,” Leavitt mentioned throughout a press briefing on Monday morning. “Obey the regulation, respect the regulation, and do not impede federal immigration officers and regulation enforcement officers when they’re merely attempting to take away public security threats from our nation’s communities.”
The manager order may set the stage for extra federal lawsuits towards cities, states and counties that deliberately restrict their cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. These sanctuary jurisdictions argue that collaborating with ICE would drain their assets, and undermine belief between police and immigrant communities.
“We stand collectively in solidarity with our immigrant households,” wrote Keith Wilson, the mayor of Portland, OR, in a letter to town council earlier this yr, promising town would attempt to “hold undocumented households secure by slowing or stopping cooperation with overreaching federal immigration enforcement.”
The Trump administration has additionally tried to withhold funding from sanctuary cities and states. Throughout President Trump’s first time period, the Justice Division tried to withhold funding from a number of jurisdictions — however they fought again, and have been typically in a position to defeat these efforts in court docket.
Final week, a federal decide blocked the administration’s newest effort to withhold funding from 16 jurisdictions, together with San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, St. Paul and New Haven.
“Right here we’re once more,” wrote U.S. District Decide William Orrick in San Francisco, who discovered that the Trump administration’s actions have been possible unconstitutional and granted a preliminary injunction.
“The risk to withhold funding causes them irreparable harm within the type of budgetary uncertainty, deprivation of constitutional rights, and undermining belief between the Cities and Counties and the communities they serve,” Orrick wrote.
