MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — About 18 months after the Trump administration threatened to withhold law enforcement
grants from nearly 30 places around the country it felt weren’t doing enough to work with federal immigration
agents, all but one have received or been cleared to get the money, the Justice Department said.
In most cases, courts chipped away at the crackdown that escalated in November 2017 with letters from former
Attorney General Jeff Sessions to 29 cities, metro areas, counties or states it considered as having adopted
“sanctuary policies” saying those policies may violate federal law.
Of those 29 jurisdictions — which include cities as large as Los Angeles and as small as Burlington, Vermont —
only Oregon has yet to be cleared to receive the grants from 2017, a Justice Department spokesman told The
Associated Press this week.
Another example of a lot of talk and no walk.
grants from nearly 30 places around the country it felt weren’t doing enough to work with federal immigration
agents, all but one have received or been cleared to get the money, the Justice Department said.
In most cases, courts chipped away at the crackdown that escalated in November 2017 with letters from former
Attorney General Jeff Sessions to 29 cities, metro areas, counties or states it considered as having adopted
“sanctuary policies” saying those policies may violate federal law.
Of those 29 jurisdictions — which include cities as large as Los Angeles and as small as Burlington, Vermont —
only Oregon has yet to be cleared to receive the grants from 2017, a Justice Department spokesman told The
Associated Press this week.
Another example of a lot of talk and no walk.
