Lawsuit to stop the Trump Administration from withholding federal funds from sanctuary cities. A district judge handed santa clara a win on monday issuing a permanent injunction. Every step of the way, the county of santa clara has won on this case. And this is really an almost fatal blow to the administration on the issue of detention of immigrants without due process. The term sanctuary city has come to describe a jurisdiction that wont allow local Law Enforcement to hold someone in custody on behalf of immigration and customs enforcement. Santa clara county stood to lose 1. 7 billion in federal funding. San francisco had 2 billion at stake. San francisco also sued the City Attorney has released a statement that reads in part, President Trump might be able to tweet whatever comes to mind, but he cant grant himself new authority because he feels like it. San jose immigration material merle kahn applauds the decision. I the courts are doing what they need to do. The system is working.
Live, where you live, this is abc 7 news. Victory for sanctuary cities tonight. A judge has blocked an order from the president that would have cost two major bay area communities billions of dollars. Good evening. Im dan ashley. And im dion lim in for ama daetz. The decision stems from a lawsuit brought by Santa Clara County and San Francisco. It means the president cannot withhold their federal funding. Abc 7 News Reporter Katie Marzullo is live in san jose with reaction. Katie . Dan, dion, President Trump can appeal the decision to the ninth circuit court. But a santa clara supervisor called the ruling a legal knockout punch. Its one of those issues where you look to your left, you look to your right, and you realize if anyone is going to lead, its going to be us. Santa clara county filed a lawsuit to stop the Trump Administration from withholding federal funds from sanctuary cities. A district judge handed santa clara a win on monday issuing a permanent injunction. Every step of th
Temperatures are warmer than average. Look at the afternoon hours, 64 to 74. This is when you hate that the sun sets at 4 54 because there is no daylight to enjoy those wonderfully warm temperatures. 58 to 62 at 7 00. We come back, we will take a look at your commute planner as far as the weather goes. How about as far as traffic goes. We are going to the bay bridge or at least leading into the bay bridge. This is the east shore freeway past the university overcrossing in berkeley and on into the emeryville area and the mcarthur maze. Everything is moving at the movement. No issues, so far so good. Minor delays at the tolls, we do have a folks stacked up to pay crash in those cash lanes. You may want to head over to the right side. A little slowing out of tracy not a bad day to be out on the roadways. North downed u. Bound 101 the reverse commute they are doing some Electrical Work on the left hand shoulder so just be aware that they are out there until 5 00 a. M. A victory for sanctua
It looks pretty clear out there. Lets talk about your accuweather 12hour day planner. Temperatures running in the low to mid 50s in most neighborhoods through 7 00, 65 to 69 by noon. Definitely not a fall flavor in that. We will be around of 66 to 69 by 4 00 with many reaching the 70s between 2 00 and 4 00 and by 7 00 look at those temperatures still around 60 to 64 degrees. The fog up in the north bay will get a little bit thicker as we head through the next couple hours, haeng out through the entire morning commute. There is some tooly fog involving into the east bay valleys. Here is sue. We will take a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. No metering lights yet but we do have a bit of a delay just a minor delay for cash paying folks in those left hand cash lanes. So may want to go over towards the right. So san jose we are looking at 280 from san jose into cupertino in the northbound direction the headlines are heading up towards cupertino, everybody is light and moving at the li
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