Last Updated Jan 25, 2017 10:48 PM EST
What is a sanctuary city and how might those cities be affected by Trump\u2019s executive order?
Sanctuary cities offer safe harbor for undocumented immigrants who might otherwise be deported by federal immigration law enforcement officials. There are over 140 sanctuary jurisdictions — cities and counties — across the U. S., including at least 37 cities — San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Miami and Los Angeles, among others.
President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order that would withhold federal grant money from sanctuary cities.
Moina Shaiq holds a sign at a rally outside of City Hall in San Francisco, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. President Donald Trump moved aggressively to tighten the nation\u2019s immigration controls Wednesday, signing executive actions to jumpstart construction of his promised U. S.-Mexico border wall and cut federal grants for immigrant-protecting \u201csanctuary cities.\u201d
\u201cJurisdictions that willfully refuse to comply\u201d with federal immigration laws, the order says, \u201care not eligible to receive Federal grants, except as deemed necessary for law enforcement purposes by the attorney general or the secretary.\u201d
Many mayors, including Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, said they\u2019d defy the order.
President Trump signed an executive order cracking down on sanctuary cities, cities that do not cooperate with federal law enforcement on immigra…
\u201cWe\u2019re going to stay a sanctuary city,\u201d Emanuel said, according to the Chicago Tribune. \u201cWherever you came from, you\u2019re welcome here.\u201d
The mayors of the Bay Area\u2019s three largest cities, Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose, and the City of Berkeley spoke out against President Trump\u2019s executive order on immigration.
Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arregu\u00edn, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf also vowed to take a regional approach to combat the impacts of any threatened cuts in federal funding
President Trump’s executive order lays out his plan to construct a physical wall along the Mexican border, hire 5,000 border patrol agents and bu…
The order does not specify how much or what kind of funding would be or could be blocked, although White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Wednesday that the homeland security secretary would \u201clook at funding streams that are going to those cities and look at how we can defund those streams.\u201d
CBS News\u2019 Carter Evans spoke with Pedro Trujillo, whose undocumented parents brought him to the U. S. when he was 7.
\u201cThere\u2019s anxiety going around, here\u2019s a lot of worry … Are there going to be raids coming our way in the coming months? We don\u2019t know that yet,\u201d Trujillo said
In 2016, a Justice Department inspector general\u2019s report investigated how much in Justice Department federal grants some sanctuary jurisdictions receive (as of Mar. 2016). Over 60 percent of the funding goes to 10 jurisdictions identified by the report:<\/p>\n

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