A judge ruled late Friday the Trump administration cannot deny funding to Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and 30 other cities and counties because of policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts. <\/p>\n
U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco extended a preliminary injunction blocking the administration from cutting off or conditioning the use of federal funds for so-called \u201csanctuary\u201d jurisdictions. His earlier order<\/a> protected more than a dozen other cities and counties, including San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. <\/p>\n An email to the White House late Friday was not immediately returned. In his ruling, Orrick said the administration had offered no opposition to an extended injunction except to say the first injunction was wrong. It has appealed the first order.<\/p>\n Orrick also blocked the administration from imposing immigration-related conditions on two particular grant programs.<\/p>\n The Trump administration has ratcheted up pressure on sanctuary communities as it seeks to make good on President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign promise to remove millions of people in the country illegally.<\/p>\n One executive order issued by Trump directs Attorney General Pam Bondi<\/a> and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem<\/a> to withhold federal money from sanctuary jurisdictions. Another order directs every federal agency to ensure that payments to state and local governments do not \u201cabet so-called \u2018sanctuary\u2019 policies that seek to shield illegal aliens from deportation.\u201d<\/p>\n The cities and counties that sued said billions of dollars were at risk. <\/p>\n Orrick, who was nominated by President Barack Obama, said the executive orders and the \u201cexecutive actions that have parroted them\u201d were an unconstitutional \u201ccoercive threat.\u201d <\/p>\n In May, the Department of Homeland Security published a list of more than 500 \u201csanctuary jurisdictions,\u201d<\/a> saying each one would receive formal notification that the government had deemed them noncompliant. It also said it would inform them if they were believed to be in violation of any federal criminal statutes.<\/p>\n