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
threatening to take away money from potential sanctuary cities in counties across the nation that have policies that limit their cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. los angeles doesn t let police stop people solely to check for immigration pamepers. the president s executive order had ordered homeland security and the justice department to keep federal money away from cities with those policies but today a federal judge has blocked that nation wide. so what exactly does the ruling say? well, you said it, anderson. it s a nation wide halt to president trump s executive order that sought to block the order for all these sanctuary cities. the northern judge is an obama appointee and he did say that the claims that this portion of the kpicexecutive order was unconstitutional had merit. interestingly here, this ruling looked a lot like the ruling