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Sanctuary City: In the United States ... a sanctuary city ... is a city that limits its cooperation with the national government effort to enforce immigration law. Leaders of sanctuary cities want to reduce the fear of deportation and possible family break-up among people who are in the country illegally so that such people will be more willing to report crimes, use health and social services, and enroll their children in school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_city

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January 25: President Trump in [one of] the executive orders he signed Tuesday called on the Department of Homeland Security to publish a list each week [to] strip federal funding of so-called “sanctuary cities.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/316145-trump-calls-for-weekly-list-of-crimes-committed-by-undocumented

January 25: Some Sanctuary Cities Vow to Defy Trump Immigration Orders ...

Elected officials throughout the United States have doubled down on their commitment to protect immigrants in light of President Donald Trump’s [sanctuary city] actions.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sanctuary-cities-vow-defy-trump-immigration-orders/story?id=45051549

January 26: On Wednesday, President Trump signed an executive order promising to withhold federal money from what it calls sanctuary jurisdictions. What's not clear is which cities and counties qualify for this punishment, and whether this kind of federal pressure is even legal.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/26/511899896/trumps-threatens-sanctuary-cities-with-loss-of-federal-funds

April 11: The Trump administration has suspended its weekly reports aimed at putting political pressure on sanctuary cities.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/11/politics/trump-sanctuary-city-detainer/?iid=ob_lockedrail_longstory_pool

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April 25: A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration cannot withhold federal funds from jurisdictions that limit their cooperation with immigration authorities, commonly known as sanctuary cities.

U.S. District Judge William Orrick issued his temporary ruling as a result of a lawsuit brought against the administration by the city of San Francisco and the county of Santa Clara. The jurisdictions had argued that billions of federal dollars that support vital services were in jeopardy when the administration threatened to cut all federal funds.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/25/525619605/federal-court-in-san-francisco-blocks-trump-s-threat-against-sanctuary-cities?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20170425&utm_campaign=breakingnews&utm_term=nprnews

March 30: The city of Seattle has filed suit to clarify an executive order signed by President Trump that would end funding for so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to comply with federal immigration officials.

The suit, filed Wednesday, asks a federal district court judge to declare that the city is acting in accordance with federal law. It also asks the judge to declare that Trump’s order is an unconstitutional violation of the 10th Amendment by attempting to force the city to enforce federal immigration law.
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/326481-seattle-sues-trump-admin-over-sanctuary-city-ban

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August 30: A federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked the nation’s most extreme anti–“sanctuary city” law on Wednesday, two days before it was set to take effect. The preliminary injunction is a setback for the state’s Republican leaders, as well as the Trump administration’s crackdown on sanctuary cities.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/federal-judge-blocks-texass-harsh-anti-sanctuary-city-law.html

November 21:
A federal judge has permanently blocked US President Donald Trump's executive order to cut funding from cities that limit cooperation with US immigration authorities.

US District Court Judge William Orrick issued the ruling on Monday in lawsuits brought by two California counties, San Francisco and Santa Clara. Orrick said Trump cannot set new conditions on spending approved by Congress.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/21/politics/trump-sanctuary-cities-executive-order-blocked/index.html

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March 27: Orange County votes to fight California's sanctuary city laws, joining sheriff's pushback

Officials in California's Orange County voted Tuesday to join a lawsuit from the Trump administration fighting the state's "sanctuary city" laws, hours after the county sheriff's department anounced its own methods of pushing back against the legislation aimed at protecting illegal immigrants.

"This legislation prevents law enforcement from removing criminals from our community and is a threat to public safety," Supervisor Shawn Nelson said before the vote.

Earlier this month another California city, Los Alamitos, approved an ordinance to opt out of the sanctuary city law that council members say conflicts with federal law.

Board members say that the state law “may be in direct conflict with federal laws and the Constitution,” and goes against the oath they took for office.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/27/orange-county-votes-to-fight-californias-sanctuary-city-laws-joining-sheriffs-pushback.html

May 20: Oakland mayor fires back at Trump: 'I am not obstructing justice'

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In February, Schaaf issued a public warning for the immigrant communities in her city about impending raids by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the San Francisco Bay Area, a move that earned her heavy criticism from the Trump administration.

"I wanted to make sure that people were prepared, not panicked, and that they understood their legal rights," Schaaf wrote Friday of her decision back in February.

Schaaf said as mayor, it's her "duty to protect my residents — especially when our most vulnerable are unjustly attacked."

"As a leader, it's my duty to call out this administration's anti-immigrant fearmongering for what it is: a racist lie," she wrote.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/19/politics/oakland-mayor-donald-trump/

May 29: Trump administration funds sanctuary cities despite pledge, angering supporters

President Donald Trump repeatedly promised to stop giving federal money to cities that refuse to cooperate with U.S. agencies trying to enforce immigration law.

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But his embattled homeland security secretary recently awarded nearly $1.7 billion in grants, some related to immigration, to states and localities across the nation, including so-called sanctuary cities, according to three people with knowledge of the grants.
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article211897764.html

August 1: A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he threatened to withhold funds from "sanctuary cities" that do not fully cooperate with U.S. immigration authorities. 

In a 2-1 decision, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said Trump's January 2017 executive order, cutting off federal funds to sanctuary cities, was unconstitutional. But the court also ruled that a lower court went too far when it blocked the order nationwide. 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/08/01/sanctuary-cities-trump-cant-pull-federal-funds-court-rules/883354002/

September 15: The crackdown on sanctuary cities gives birth to 'freedom cities'

Advocates for undocumented immigrants believe they've found a new — and legal — way to skirt deportation efforts.
 
The newest solution has been "freedom city" policies, which unlike sanctuary initiatives, create new ways for city officials to comply legally with federal rules and state laws, while still protecting undocumented immigrants.

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For example, under a strict Texas law called SB 4, police officers can ask people they stop about their immigration status. One of the "freedom city" resolutions passed by Austin, however, instructs police to also inform people they stop that they may refuse to answer those questions.

Austin's declaration was the latest mark of progress for the broader "freedom cities" movement — a decentralized collection of dozens of local and national civil rights, immigrant rights and progressive groups that have banded together to fight anti-sanctuary policies.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/crackdown-sanctuary-cities-gives-birth-freedom-cities-n909606

June 18: Trump administration seeks to limit court's 'sanctuary cities' order

The Trump administration, escalating its fight with so-called sanctuary cities, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to narrow a lower court’s nationwide order preventing the federal government from denying public safety grants to municipalities that limit cooperation on immigration enforcement.

The Justice Department asked the high court to make the injunction issued by a federal judge in Chicago cover only that city and not the entire country. Republican President Donald Trump’s administration has gone on an offensive against Democratic-governed cities and states that protect illegal immigrants as part of his hard-line immigration policies.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-sanctuary/trump-administration-seeks-to-limit-courts-sanctuary-cities-order-idUSKBN1JE2DR

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July 18: Six states and NYC sue Trump admin over requiring 'sanctuary cities' to work with feds

Lawsuits were filed in Manhattan federal court on behalf of New York state and city, Connecticut, New Jersey, Washington, Massachusetts and Virginia.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/six-states-nyc-sue-trump-admin-over-requiring-sanctuary-cities-n892596

October 21: Trump claims Californians are 'rioting' because of sanctuary cities [with no evidence]
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Trump-says-Californians-are-rioting-sanctuary-city-13324781.php

October 25: A federal judge has ruled in favor of Portland and Seattle in a case against President Trump's executive order barring sanctuary cities from receiving federal funds.

The ruling Wednesday by Western District of Washington Judge Richard A. Jones follows an opinion from the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in August that rendered unconstitutional a section of Trump's executive order declaring sanctuary cities ineligible for federal grants.

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Trump signed the order in Jan. 2017, five days after taking office; the section invalidated by the appeals court attempted to punish local governments that don't cooperate with federal immigration authorities. That ruling applied only to application of the funding ban in San Francisco. At the time of the appeals court ruling, the U.S. Department of Justice called the decision a "victory for criminal aliens."
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/10/judge_unconstitutional_for_tru.html

November 30: Federal judge in New York rules against Trump in sanctuary cities case

Judge Edgardo Ramos, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, said the government “did not have lawful authority” to make states alert federal agents when an undocumented immigrant is going to be released from state or local custody and allow federal agents to question immigrants in custody about their legal status in order for states and cities to receive funding.

In his ruling, Ramos blocked the government from enforcing those conditions on New York, New York City and the six states that also challenged the requirements: Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Virginia and Washington.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/419146-judge-sides-with-sanctuary-cities-over-trump

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