A federal judge ruled on Friday that the Trump administration cannot cut funding to 34 cities and counties in response to so-called “sanctuary” policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
U.S. District Judge William Orrick, who issued a previous order protecting more than a dozen other cities and counties, extended a preliminary injunction blocking the administration from pulling federal money or conditioning the use of the funds for local jurisdictions.
The judge also blocked the administration from placing immigration-related conditions on two grant programs.
Orrick said the administration’s only opposition to an extended injunction was claiming that the first injunction was wrong after it appealed the first order.
The administration has increased pressure on sanctuary jurisdictions under President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan.
Trump issued an executive order directing Attorney General Pam Bondi and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to withhold federal money from sanctuary communities. He also tasked all federal agencies with ensuring that payments to state and local governments do not “abet so-called ‘sanctuary’ policies that seek to shield illegal aliens from deportation,” The Associated Press reported.
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