4/26/2017

IMMIGRATION/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge on Tuesday [4-25-17] blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a threat to take away funds from sanctuary cities — the latest blow from the federal judiciary to President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda.
In his ruling, Judge William H. Orrick sided with Santa Clara County, the city of San Francisco and other jurisdictions, who argued that a threat to take away federal funds from cities that do not cooperate with some federal immigration enforcement could be unconstitutional.
In making the ruling apply nationwide, Orrick blocked the government from enforcing a key portion of Trump’s January executive order on immigration, which ordered the Department of Homeland Security and Justice Department to block cities who do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement from receiving federal funds.
While Orrick’s ruling does not find the policy unconstitutional, he did find that the counties and cities that challenged the law demonstrated they could face ‘immediate irreparable harm’ if the policy were allowed to be put into place, and that their constitutional challenge could succeed once the case is fully heard.”

-Tal Kopan, “Judge blocks part of Trump’s sanctuary cities executive order,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, April 26, 2017 7:07am