(1st UPDATE) The cities and counties say in a lawsuit that the Republican president's administration is unlawfully trying to force local officials to cooperate by threatening them with a loss of funding and prosecution
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“This is the federal government coercing local officials to bend to their will or face defunding or prosecution,” San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu, a Democrat, said in a statement. “That is illegal and authoritarian.” The lawsuit came a day after the US Department of Justice sued the state of Illinois and city of Chicago, alleging the Democratic strongholds were unlawfully interfering withSanctuary laws prevent state and local law enforcement from assisting federal civil immigration officers.
Friday’s lawsuit challenged an executive order Trump signed that threatened to cut off federal funding to sanctuary jurisdictions that limit or refuse to cooperate with federal immigration law enforcement, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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