halting the travel ban and the judge's words were reminiscent as well. pointed to the president's own words, writing if there was any doubt about the scope of the order, the president and attorney general have erased it with their public comments. the president has called it a wepn to use against jurisdictions that disagree with his policies of immigration enforcement and the press secretary has reiterated that the president intends to inhad sure that counties and other institutions that remain sanctuary cities don't get federal government funding in compliance with the executive order. and this judge doing something similar, halting the sanctuary city executive order. the doj did just respond and it dealt less with this ruling and more with their contention that the federal government can prohibit cities from with