Bloomberg Law
April 14, 2017, 5:55 PM UTC

Trump Crackdown Confronts California Sanctuaries in Court

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by Kartikay Mehrotra, Bloomberg News

The Trump administration has embarked on a border patrol agent recruiting drive and begun aggressive stings to arrest undocumented immigrants amid the president’s call for upping deportations.

Standing in its way are so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to detain some potential deportees. Those jurisdictions are fighting back, with two of them asking a federal judge Friday to block President Donald Trump’s executive order withholding perhaps billions of dollars from cities and counties that don’t cooperate.

San Francisco and its Silicon Valley neighbor, Santa Clara County, are seeking a nationwide ban on enforcement of a Jan. ...

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