A federal judge has permanently blocked the the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from withholding around $34 million in funding to New York City’s transportation system that is meant to prevent terrorist attacks.
In a ruling issued on Oct. 16, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan argued that the Trump administration’s decision to withhold the funding because of the city’s status as a “sanctuary jurisdiction,” which blocks city cooperation with federal law enforcement in immigration enforcement efforts, was “arbitrary, capricious, and a blatant violation of the law.”
The order “grants a permanent injunction requiring the federal government to grant those funds to the MTA,” the Metropolitan Transportation Authority that operates in New York City and its metropolitan area. The judge had previously issued an order temporarily freezing the move….