{"id":397,"date":"2020-11-29T07:14:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T12:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/?page_id=397"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:10:16","slug":"the-legality-of-sanctuary-cities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/in-print\/volume-33-number-1-fall-2019\/the-legality-of-sanctuary-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legality of Sanctuary Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"Default\">In an interview with a Seattle radio station in August 2016, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump declared, \u201csanctuary cities are out&#8230;sanctuary cities are over.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\">Bringing an end to sanctuary cities\u2013jurisdictions that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities\u2013factored prominently into Candidate Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign and was a top-priority when he assumed the presidency. On January 25, 2017, just five days after his inauguration, President Trump signed an executive order that sought to restrict federal funding to jurisdictions that limit cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responsible for enforcing federal laws on border control, customs, trade, and immigration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Default\">Citing the \u201cimmeasurable harm to the American people and to the very fabric of our republic\u201d resulting from sanctuary cities\u2019 \u201cwillful[]\u201d violation of Federal laws in their \u201cattempt to shield aliens from removal from the United States,\u201d the executive order vowed to \u201censure that jurisdictions that fail to comply with applicable Federal law do not receive Federal funds&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2020\/11\/The-Legality-of-Sanctuary-Cities.pdf\">The Legality of Sanctuary Cities<\/a><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2020\/11\/The-Legality-of-Sanctuary-Cities.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">The Legality of Sanctuary Cities<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with a Seattle radio station in August 2016, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump declared, \u201csanctuary cities are out&#8230;sanctuary cities are over.\u201d Bringing an end to sanctuary cities\u2013jurisdictions that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"parent":1243,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-397","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/397\/revisions\/1261"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}