AP NEWS: ‘Sanctuary’ cities are getting their grants despite threats
By WILSON RING
LowT Gimenez sides with Trump against Miami's residents.
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 the Justice Department of 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.
Vermont officials announced Monday that they had been told
the state Department of Public Safety would be getting $2.3 million in law
enforcement grants that had been blocked. Vermont had not joined any of the
legal cases, instead corresponding directly with the Justice Department.
U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, declared
victory, saying the money would be used primarily on anti-drug efforts.
“State and local law enforcement agencies already are
stretched thin, and withholding these federal grants only makes their work more
difficult,” Leahy said in an email to the AP. “It’s unthinkable that the
Trump Justice Department would hold these funds hostage over an unrelated
dispute on immigration policy.”
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