Sessions will defund sanctuary cities of their law enforcement grants if they do not enforce federal law.
Sessions highlighted a recent report from the Department of Homeland Security that showed more than 200 instances of jurisdictions failing to honor detainers in the span of just one week. The DHS also identified sanctuary jurisdictions in the report, which included New York City and all of Rhode Island’s state prisons.
The report detailed illegal immigrants who had been charged with sex crimes and murder that local jurisdictions failed to turn over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “The American people are not happy with these results,” Sessions said while speaking at the White House.
He said that he is “urging” states and local jurisdictions to comply with immigration detainers as a “condition” of receiving federal law enforcement grants. The attorney general cited DOJ programs that are anticipate to award more than $4.1 billion in the upcoming fiscal year. Sessions added that “the DOJ will take all lawful steps to claw back any funds to a jurisdiction that willingly violates 8 U.S.C. 1373.”
Even though the obamacare circus turned into a shitstorm there is still a lot of good things to happen from the Trump Administration.
Isn’t this a switch, having an AG who actually enforces the law. Thank you to Jeff Sessions and President Trump.
So no trial, just catch and release? Or are they just coming out of prison?
Hey Jeff, can you ask them to give us our gun rights back too? Might as well do it at the same time.
Tell them the funds that would have been given them will be diverted to building the wall.
Bankrupt Illinois and bankrupt Chicago already don’t police many parts of the #BLM city. Any federal funds the city would be eligible for are probably already forfeited. That’s why Rahm can say Chicago will always be sanctuary. The “penalty” isn’t stiff enough. More concerned with funding pensions and raising property/sales taxes. An illegal knocking off a pension holder is a plus for the city.
they shoulda watched ‘Logan’s Run’ … ‘Sanctuary’ is a myth
He ought to give a date such as April 15 for compliance. After that all money is cut, any money in the system is stopped. In order to get it back they have to be shown to be in compliance and monitored by agents from the DOJ who will be assigned to each city.
Let’s see if it really happens.