by Kelly Cohen | May 22, 2017
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday released final guidance that calls on the Justice Department to withhold grants from certain "sanctuary" city jurisdictions, in a bid to crack down on cities and jurisdictions that refuse to follow federal requests to detain illegal immigrants.
In a memo released Monday afternoon, Sessions said he and Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly have decided that
a sanctuary jurisdiction will refer "only to jurisdictions that ‘willfully refuse to comply with 8 U.S.C. 1373.'"
Section 1373
requires state and local jurisdictions not to limit communications with DHS about people's citizenship or immigration status. Hundreds of cities and counties nationwide have policies that prohibit local officials from cooperating with requests for illegal immigrants to be held until they are picked up by federal officials.
The letters went to the
California Board of State and Community Corrections, as well as officials in Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Miami, Milwaukee, New York and Cook County, Ill., asking for proof they are cooperating with Section 1373.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/jeff-sessions-releases-final-guidance-defining-sanctuary-cities/article/2623835
