A federal judge ruled on Aug. 22 that the federal government cannot suspend funding to 34 “sanctuary” jurisdictions across the country that limit or refuse cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco ordered the extension of a preliminary injunction that bars the administration from blocking funding or placing conditions on federal money for those jurisdictions. The judge also blocked the administration from imposing immigration-related conditions on two particular grant programs.
The Trump administration has tried to block funding to dozens of cities and counties by cutting off their Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grants because they either have not cooperated with or have obstructed the federal government in its enforcement of immigration law….