At the end of this month, New York City and other jurisdictions resisting the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown will be required to certify to the federal government their compliance with a federal statute that bars interference with federal access to immigration information. When the Justice Department on April 21 ordered so-called “sanctuary jurisdictions” to make this certification, the stakes appeared enormous in light of a highly-touted executive order President Donald Trump signed shortly after his inauguration in which he threatened to cut off all federal funding to jurisdictions that did not comply with the immigration information-sharing law.
As with so much of the Trump administration, however, its immigration executive order has played as tragicomedy. Just four days after the April 21 Justice Department letter demanding certification, a federal district court issued a nationwide injunction against the order’s funding cut-off provisions. And in an effort to undo that injunction, Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week issued a memorandum that narrowed the scope of the executive order so substantially as to eviscerate it.
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