Attorney General Jeff Sessions announces the Trump administration is ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Credit: Diego M. Radzinschi / ALM on Wednesday affirmed Trump v. Hawaii declined

“Today's divided Ninth Circuit opinion is a victory for criminal aliens in California, who can continue to commit crimes knowing that the state's leadership will protect them from federal immigration officers whose job it is to hold them accountable and remove them from the country. The Justice Department continues to maintain that—as the dissenting judge recognized—the president exercised his lawful authority when he issued the sanctuary city executive order."

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