The Obama-appointed judge will reach a jurisdiction that blocks the Trump administration from denying federal funds and refuses to work with federal immigration officials.
District Judge William Orrick, appointed to the California bench by President Barack Obama in 2013, ruled that the executive order signed by President Donald Trump was probably unconstitutional, according to court documents. Slates from San Francisco, San Diego County and other liberal enclaves that refuse to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have sued to stop the order from coming into effect. (Related: Colombian student visa revoked due to protests from Pro Hamas, self-abolized using the new Trump app)
“We’re again,” Orick wrote, referring to the previous executive order that Trump signed in his first term to refund the sanctuary cities.
In 2017, Trump signed Executive Order 13,768the title “Strengthening Public Safety Inside the United States,” is an order that attempted to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities. According to court documents, Oric decided the order, following the San Francisco court challenge, to be unconstitutional, and ruled that the defendant “favoured irreparable harm without an injunction.”
NEW YORK, NY – June 6: When he entered the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building in New York City on June 6, 2023, hundreds of asylum seekers are being monitored over hundreds of asylum seekers being processed. New York City has provided sanctuary to more than 46,000 asylum seekers since 2013, when the city passed a law prohibiting city agencies from working with federal immigration enforcement agencies, unless the city has a warrant for that person’s arrest.
In Thursday’s order, a judge on Obama’s mission argued that Trump’s latest order – protecting Americans from aggression and ending taxpayer subsidies – was roughly the same as the executive order he shot down during his first term.
“Cities and counties also show potential for irreparable harm,” Orick wrote. “The threat of withholding funds causes irreparable injuries to them in the form of budget uncertainty, constitutional disenfranchisement, and eroding the trust between the cities and counties and the communities they serve.”
Orick banned the Trump administration from “initially or indirectly withholding, freezing or conditioning federal funds,” and gave a Monday deadline to provide written notice of his orders to all federal departments and agencies.
Although there is no official definition of the “sanctuary city” law or policy, the label generally describes rules that restrict local officials from supporting or cooperating with ice agents. General Sanctuary City policies prohibit local law enforcement agencies from respecting the requests of ICE detainees, sharing information with ICE, or notifying agencies of the imminent release of illegal immigrants.
While state and local officials rarely need to be involved in federal immigration issues, the administration warns that blatant obstruction is against the law. Border Emperor Tom Homan previously told the Daily Call News Foundation that individuals who discovered they were blocking the ice agent’s mission would be mentioned by the prosecutor.
Trump has made immigration enforcement a top priority, and his top officials have already laid the foundations to keep obstacles out of the way in the sanctuary city. Beyond the executive order seeking to reimburse the sanctuary’s jurisdiction, the administration has established a task force to investigate sanctuary areas that may violate the law, and Pam Bondi ordered funds to be withdrawn from the sanctuary jurisdiction sworn in February.
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