Injunction granted to San Francisco, different cities difficult Trump sanctuary metropolis crackdown

A federal decide in California issued a preliminary injunction Thursday blocking the Trump administration from pulling funds from so-called “sanctuary cities” following a lawsuit introduced by San Francisco and different native governments throughout the U.S.

“The Cities and Counties have additionally demonstrated a chance of irreparable hurt,” Decide William Orrick of the Northern District of California wrote within the order. “The menace to withhold funding causes them irreparable harm within the type of budgetary uncertainty, deprivation of constitutional rights, and undermining belief between the Cities and Counties and the communities they serve.”

Orrick heard arguments at a listening to that passed off in San Francisco on Wednesday afternoon. 

The plaintiffs are searching for to dam President Trump from imposing govt orders that will halt federal funding to cities and different native governments that restrict native cooperation with federal immigration brokers by sanctuary insurance policies.

Officers in San Francisco and Santa Clara County, California initially filed a lawsuit in February, which has since been joined by a number of different cities and counties in California, together with Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Seattle, Washington.

“The Courtroom’s ruling places a direct pause on the Trump Administration’s unlawful makes an attempt to freeze federal funding just because it disagrees with native governments’ constitutionally protected resolution to not use native assets for immigration enforcement,” Santa Clara County Counsel Tony LoPresti stated in an announcement. 

San Francisco Metropolis Lawyer David Chiu stated in an announcement forward of Wednesday’s listening to that Trump administration officers “wish to commandeer native cops as federal [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] brokers, whereas strong-arming native officers with threats of withholding federal funds that assist our police division, our efforts to handle homelessness, and our public well being system.” 

“As we’ve seen, the Trump Administration has now deported somebody by error, and ICE brokers have unlawfully arrested United States residents,” Chiu alleged.

In an interview with CBS Information Bay Space Thursday afternoon, Chiu stated, “We’re actually grateful to the decide right here for reiterating what we knew from eight years in the past.”

San Francisco sued the primary Trump administration in 2017 after it tried to withhold federal funds from town due to its sanctuary insurance policies. The town prevailed in that go well with in 2018 after an appeals court docket dominated the insurance policies have been authorized and the withholding of funds was unconstitutional.

“We prevailed then as we simply prevailed this morning,” Chiu went on to say.