Trump Threatens To Cut All Federal Funding To Sanctuary Cities

President Donald Trump said that he is working on “papers” to withhold all federal funding to sanctuary cities, a move that would hit finances from New York to San Francisco. 

“No more Sanctuary Cities! They protect the Criminals, not the Victims,” the president said in a post on Truth Social. “They are disgracing our Country, and are being mocked all over the World.”

Sanctuary cities refer to jurisdictions with policies that generally allow people who entered the US illegally to remain without fear of arrest or deportation over their immigration status. Those policies may mean restricting the flow of the information they share with federal officials and declining to require residents to provide their immigration status when accessing public services. 

Trump has promised to execute the largest mass deportation in history. Democratic mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York City defended their policies before the House Oversight Committee in March.