{"id":52232,"date":"2025-07-09T20:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T20:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/52232\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T20:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T20:05:07","slug":"chicago-boston-la-seek-to-challenge-sanctuary-city-defunding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/52232\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago, Boston, LA Seek to Challenge \u2018Sanctuary City\u2019 Defunding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly three dozen cities and counties, including Chicago and Los Angeles, want to join as plaintiffs in a lawsuit<\/a> against the Trump administration\u2019s targeting of jurisdictions with \u201csanctuary city\u201d policies.<\/p>\n

An amended suit that includes more plaintiffs is warranted in light of a \u201cflurry of additional executive actions\u201d from the administration since the first amended complaint, a motion<\/a> filed Tuesday states, including a directive they say threatens funding for disaster response and crime victim support. <\/p>\n

Administration attorneys indicated they would oppose the amended complaint, court records show. It\u2019s up to District Judge William Orrick of the US District Court for the Northern District of California to determine whether the expanded complaint can be filed.<\/p>\n

The prospective new plaintiffs include jurisdictions across the country, among them Boston, Denver, and Baltimore. The 16 existing plaintiffs include San Francisco and Seattle.<\/p>\n

All of them have \u201cmade the lawful decision to limit the use of their local resources to assist with federal civil immigration enforcement,\u201d the proposed new complaint says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese local policy choices are not designed to, and do not, interfere with federal law enforcement, but instead ensure that all residents of Plaintiffs\u2019 communities\u2014regardless of immigration status\u2014feel safe reporting crimes, going to schools, seeking medical care, and accessing critical public services,\u201d the proposed complaint states.<\/p>\n

The plaintiffs seek to sue the administration over a slew of executive orders and administrative actions targeting \u201csanctuary\u201d jurisdictions, including threats to cut off federal funding for matters that have nothing to do with immigration, according to the proposed complaint.<\/p>\n

The existing plaintiffs won a preliminary injunction<\/a> in April that barred the administration from revoking funds from sanctuary cities. And Orrick later explicitly stated that the administration couldn\u2019t use new executive orders to make an \u201cend run\u201d<\/a> around the injunction.<\/p>\n

The administration has appealed<\/a> the injunction to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.<\/p>\n

The case is City and County of S.F. v. Trump, N.D. Cal., No. 3:25-cv-01350, motion filed 7\/8\/25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly three dozen cities and counties, including Chicago and Los Angeles, want to join as plaintiffs in a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,12049,5386,1818,24099,38995],"class_list":["post-52232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-federal-budget","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-immigration-enforcement","tag-preliminary-injunctions"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}