San Francisco Sues Over Sanctuary Cities Order

NBC News reports:

San Francisco officials filed a federal lawsuit on Friday against the Trump administration, arguing Trump’s executive orders that promise to withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities and prosecute local law enforcement officials who refuse to comply with federal immigration enforcement efforts are unconstitutional.

The suit, co-led by San Francisco and Santa Clara County officials, comes as the latest in a series of sanctuary cities and state attorneys general suing the Trump administration over recent immigration-related executive orders.

“I want to be clear, the Trump administration is asserting a right it does not have. They are trying to tell us how to use our resources and to commandeer our local law enforcement. This is the federal government coercing local officials to bend to their will or face defunding or prosecution, and that is illegal or authoritarian,” said san Francisco City Attorney David Chiu [photo].

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