President Trump Vows To Withhold Funds From Sanctuary Cities – ‘Do Not Protect Criminals!’

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President Trump announced Thursday that his administration is moving forward with withholding funding from sanctuary cities across the nation after an appeals court ruled the president has every right to cut off funding.

President Trump announced Thursday that his administration is moving forward with withholding funding from sanctuary cities across the nation after an appeals court ruled the president has every right to cut off funding.

The move by Trump is part of a broad push by his administration to end the controversial policies that protect illegal criminals and make Americans less safe.

As per recent Federal Court ruling, the Federal Government will be withholding funds from Sanctuary Cities. They should change their status and go non-Sanctuary,” he said. “Do not protect criminals!

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Fox report: The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York last month overturned a lower court ruling that stopped the administration’s 2017 move to withhold grant money from the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program, which dispenses over $250 million a year to state and local criminal justice efforts.

The decision conflicts with rulings from other appeals courts across the country concerning sanctuary policies, indicating a Supreme Court review is ultimately likely.

New York City and liberal states, including New York, Washington, Massachusetts and Connecticut, sued the government, and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York backed them – ordering the money be released and stopping the government from putting immigration-related conditions on grants.

But the appeals court ruled that it “cannot agree that the federal government must be enjoined from imposing the challenged conditions on the federal grants here at issue.”

Sanctuaries policies limit local cooperation with immigration authorities and bar law enforcement from complying with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers – requests that ICE be alerted when an illegal immigrant is being released from local custody.

Proponents of sanctuary cities have argued that it makes communities safer by encouraging illegal immigrant victims of crime or witnesses to cooperate with law enforcement.

“The Trump administration’s scare tactics destroy trust in law enforcement. The day our police ask for immigration status is the day people stop reporting crimes and sharing information. It’s the day we stop being the safest big city in America. We won’t let that happen,” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said in January.

But administration officials have pointed to a host of cases when an illegal immigrant has been sprung from custody after a detainer was ignored and gone on to re-offend.

In a letter to de Blasio last month, ICE Acting Director Matt Albence noted that ICE’s New York City Enforcement and Removals Office issued detainers on 7,526 subjects who had criminal histories, including 3,500 assaults, 1,500 DUIs, 1,000 sex crimes, 1,000 weapons offenses, 500 robberies and 200 homicides.

The administration has deployed elite Border Patrol agents to sanctuary cities to help ICE track down and detain illegal immigrants.

The Justice Department recently announced a slew of measures, and Trump has called on Congress to pass legislation that would allow victims of crimes committed by illegal immigrants to sue sanctuary cities and states.

Baxter Dmitry

Baxter Dmitry

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9 Comments

  1. Trump has had for frackin’ years to withhold funds from sanctuary cites! Why is he mouthing the words now? Oh yeah, it’s an election year AND this is “candidate” trump speaking now. Don’t get fooled again! Idjiots!

    • He did in 2017 it was held up I. The Courts until the Supreme Court just approved he can withhold the money

      • I sincerely hope that’s true. As I’m deeply disappointed and feel incredibly betrayed by Trump on a litany of campaign promises. So yeah, I would really like to see some real effort by trump to stop this invasion. It would also be nice if he’d stop backtracking on DACA, h1h2 visas, and for publicly calling for “more and more” immigrants. Not to mention his constitutional attacks on 1A, 2A, etc. Nor his fully funding baby killing/planned parenthood, or his tariff/tax increasing attacks on free trade, etc. Anyhow, I’ll definitely look into it. Lord knows there’s more than enough TRUTH out there to prove that Trump is really an NWO Neocon Globalist Grabbler Rino. Thus there’s no need to lie about him to prove what his agenda really is. Anyhow, thanks.

        • Trump probably is a NWO. So, who else do you think is better? YOU? come on, you cannot even comment without being courteous.

          • Did you forget the topic that we were discussing? My point was not about the “success” or failure of the pipeline. It was about the failure of the massive protests.(i.e. the foolish barking at the moon) which only stopped it temporarily. As for being courteous, I’ll be courteous when you quit trolling/playing games and are deserving of respect. And… that’s the problem with you liberals. You lie, and you know you lie. And you’re not ashamed of it.

          • Appreantly, you do not know me. I am no liberal. So stop ASS-u-ming. You are only showing your ignorance. Syanora.

    • I BELIEVE HE DID DO THIS AND WAS BLOCKED BY THE COURTS. RECENTLY, THAT WAS OVERTURNED BY THE SUPREMES.

      • I sincerely hope that’s true. As I’m deeply disappointed and feel incredibly betrayed by Trump on a litany of campaign promises. I’ll look into it. Thanks.

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