Sessions restates Obama policy on sanctuary cities
Sessions, decrying the safety risk posed when cities don't cooperate with federal immigration authorities, repeated previous statements that the Trump administration would seek to deny so-called sanctuary cities some federal grant funds. He offered no new policies, simply reiterating an Obama administration directive from the previous summer. But he did so with stark rhetoric intended to resonate with fellow advocates of aggressive moves to target illegal immigration.
"Countless Americans would be alive today and countless loved ones would not be grieving today if these policies of sanctuary cities were ended," Sessions claimed.
His statement was the most visible sign of how the
In his first full week in office, Trump used executive authority to target a slew of Obama priorities, seeking to restart construction of oil pipelines, review new overtime pay rules and formally break from the proposed
On Monday, Trump was back at it - rescinding Obama-era regulations through a 1996 law that sought to give
The Congressional Review Act had been used just once before Trump took office; he signed four at once, addressing regulations on government contracting, development on public lands and education that the
"This was a lot of work for a lot of people to get this done, but it's going to lead to a lot of good jobs and a lot less regulation," Trump said at a signing ceremony attended by Republican lawmakers.
Only days earlier, a more somber president admitted that enacting more far-reaching legislation was a much heavier lift. A three-week sprint to pass the first major plank of his legislative agenda ended with
The
But the highest-profile symbolic move came from Sessions.
He noted that any jurisdiction applying for grants from his department would have to certify that it was in compliance with federal immigration law. He didn't mention that the
Although many cities have policies that they, or critics, characterize as "sanctuary," those policies do not necessarily mean they are violating the law.
Sessions did say that the
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