{"id":69843,"date":"2017-03-27T15:07:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T19:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=69843"},"modified":"2017-03-27T15:08:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T19:08:13","slug":"69843","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=69843","title":{"rendered":"Sanctuary Cities To Lose Billions Of Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"page-headline\">AG Sessions says he\u2019ll punish sanctuaries, cities could lose billions of dollars<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/launch.newsinc.com\/?type=VideoPlayer\/Single&amp;widgetId=1&amp;trackingGroup=69016&amp;playlistId=19132&amp;siteSection=91568_vmpp&amp;videoId=32178667\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By Stephen Dinan and Dave Boyer &#8211; The Washington Times<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday he\u2019ll begin punishing sanctuary cities, withholding potentially billions of dollars in federal money \u2014 and even clawing back funds that had been doled out in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the White House, Mr. Sessions said his department is preparing to dole out more than $4 billion in funds this year, but will try prevent any of it from going to sanctuaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCountless Americans would be alive today \u2026 if these policies of sanctuary cities were ended,\u201d Mr. Sessions said.<\/p>\n<p>He said he\u2019s carrying out a policy laid out by the Obama administration last year, which identified three grant programs \u2014 the COPS grants, Byrne grants and State Criminal Alien Assistance Program money \u2014 that already require sanctuary certification.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration didn\u2019t end up enforcing that policy, but Mr. Sessions said he\u2019ll begin.<\/p>\n<p>Sanctuaries are jurisdictions that thwart federal immigration agents\u2019 efforts to deport illegal immigrants, usually be refusing to comply with detainer requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 cities and counties were identified last week in ICE\u2019s inaugural public name-and-shame list of sanctuaries.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the sanctuaries refuse all communication with ICE, saying they want no part of helping deport anyone. But other jurisdictions say they\u2019re concerned about the legal implications of holding someone for ICE agents, and say federal agents\u2019 requests aren\u2019t good enough.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday ICE issued a new detainer form, replacing a jumble of forms that had emerged under the Obama administration. ICE\u2019s new single form allows agents to demand notification when a potential deportee is about to be released from custody, and also asks that the target person he held for up to 48 hours so agents can get there to pick the person up.<\/p>\n<p>The notification requirement is controversial with only a handful of the most strident sanctuaries, but the 48-hour hold is more problematic.<\/p>\n<p>The National Sheriffs\u2019 Association said it was looking for a clearer policy statement from Mr. Sessions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil the Department of Justice issues legal guidance confirming the constitutionality of current detainers, sheriffs will remain exposed to legal and ethical ramifications,\u201d Jonathan Thompson, executive director of the association, said last week.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/mar\/27\/jeff-sessions-says-hell-punish-sanctuaries-cities\/\">http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/mar\/27\/jeff-sessions-says-hell-punish-sanctuaries-cities\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AG Sessions says he\u2019ll punish sanctuaries, cities could lose billions of dollars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}