At
stake is what amounts to a blip in the city budget. But for officials
in New York, as in several other cities with large immigrant
populations, it is about the principle more than the federal money they
stand to lose for their so-called sanctuary city policies.
On Wednesday, the office of Mayor Bill de Blasio
sent a letter to the Justice Department asserting that the city was
cooperating with immigration officials to the extent required under
federal law and that the city should not, as the Justice Department has
argued, forfeit a $4.3 million federal law enforcement grant.
The
letter, and others sent from cities like New Orleans and Philadelphia,
came amid a burst of activity on immigration in Washington. As the House
prepared to vote on Thursday on two bills to crack down on undocumented
immigrants who commit crimes, President Trump cheered the legislation
for getting the “bad people” out of American cities.
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Source: The New York Times (via The Empire Report)
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