President Donald Trump said his administration is close to finalizing a program that would deny all federal cash to cities and states that have enacted” sanctuary” areas and do not engage with federal immigration authorities.
” No more Sanctuary Cities! They protect the Offenders, not the Victims. They are disgracing our Country and are being mocked all over the World”, Trump wrote in a blog to Truth Social Thursday night. ” Working on documents to deny all Federal Funding for any City or State that allows these Death Nets to occur!! “!
For decades, sanctuary cities and states have sought to become havens for noncitizens regardless of their immigration status.
But those shelter states have instantly clashed with federal government as local elected representatives vote to ban law enforcement from turning over illegal immigrants in prison for non-immigration acts, with some exceptions.
Trump’s focus on sanctuary zones comes nearly three months into his second term as he attempts to carry out the “largest-ever” mass deportation operation. That operation has been held up by large cities that refuse to cooperate with U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE).
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REINSTATES VOICE OFFICE FOR AMERICANS VICTIMIZED BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
When an illegal immigrant is arrested by local police on a criminal offense, ICE requests that the jail hold that person for 48 hours past his or her release in order to pick that individual up.  ,
Sanctuary zones will not hold the person for ICE, effectively allowing him or her back onto the street and forcing ICE to then go into communities and make individual arrests.
