Mayor Eric Garcetti Vow To Fight Trump On Sanctuary Cities
Los Angeles Mayor of America’s largest cities vowed to fight President Trump’s efforts to curb illegal immigration after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Department of Justice would strip funding from cities that harbor illegal aliens. During his campaign, Mr Trump pledged to remove funding from cities who refuse to comply with Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers saying that “disregard for the law must end.” Sessions’ directive is in keeping with Mr Trump’s promise and follows an executive order signed just days after the inauguration, Saying The Attorney General and the Secretary [of Homeland Security] . . . shall ensure that jurisdictions that willfully refuse to comply” with the law “are not eligible to receive Federal grants, except as deemed necessary for law enforcement purposes by the Attorney General or the Secretary. Mayor Eric Garcetti who responded to the news Monday by declaring that the removal of federal funding is unconsti...