The federal judge on Tuesday temporarily terminated the plan of the Trump administration to reduce assistance in the style of disaster and anti -terrorism financing for the States with the so -called sanctuary for immigrants without documents.
The District Judge of the United States Mary S. McElra provided a temporary prohibiting order that restricts the reductions at the request of California, 10 other states and the Columbia district, which approved In the trial on Monday That politics, in the visible, illegally cost them hundreds of millions of dollars.
The States said they were first notified of reduction on weekends. MacAlra made a decision during an emergency hearing at the request of the state of the state of Rod -Alend on Tuesday afternoon.
California Atti. General Rob Bont welcomed this decision as the last state victory that he refused what he called a series of illegal Trump administration associated with the financing of power.
“Once and again, the courts ceased the illegal efforts of the Trump administration to connect the grant financing with state policy,” Bonta said. “This is a small thing called state sovereignty, but given the president’s tendency to violate the constitution, it is not surprising that he is not familiar with it.”
Neither the White House nor the Ministry of Internal Security, which control funding and notified the states of the abbreviations, immediately responded to a request for comments on Tuesday.
The sanctuary’s policy is not uniform, and this term is inaccurate, but usually this applies to politics that prohibits the states and settlements – and their local law enforcement agencies from participating in federal immigration raids or other initiatives to ensure compliance.
The Trump administration and other Republicans adopted such a policy as undermining the law and order. Democrats and progressives, including California, say that the states and cities have the final resources of public security, and that participation in immigration support is only in order to undermine the trust that they and their law enforcement agencies must maintain a public in order to prevent and solve a crime, including large immigration communities.
In their trial on Monday, the States said that the reduction in financing was part of billions of federal dollars, annually distributed in the States for “preparation, protection, response and restoration from catastrophic disasters”, and which administrations of both political parties distributed “for decades to Trump.
Authorized by Congress after such events as September 11 and Hurricane Katrina, financing covers the salary of the first response, testing state computer networks for vulnerabilities of cyber attacks, mutual assistance between regional partners and emergency answers after natural disasters, the states said.
Bonta's office said that on weekends, internal security officers reported that it would receive $ 110 million instead of $ 165 million, which reduces its budget by about a third. The States claim said that other blue states saw even more dramatic reductions, since in Illinois there was a reduction by 69%, and in New York it decreased by 79%, while in the Red States there was a significant increase in funding.
Bont on Tuesday stated that the rearrangement of the administration, based on compliance with the state priority of the administration of the Trump administration, was illegal and must be stopped – and restored at previous levels based on risk assessment – to ensure the security of all in the country.
“California uses grant financing put on a map in our trial to protect the safety of our communities from terrorist acts and other disasters, which means that bets are literally life and death,” he said. “This is not what to play politics with. I am grateful to the court for seeing the urgency of this dangerous distraction of funding for internal security. ”
Interior security officers previously argued that the agency should be able to abandon financing from states that it believes that it does not support or actively undermines its main mission to protect the nation from threats, including the threat that he sees from illegal immigration.
Other judges Also ruled Against the administration that causes natural disasters and financing public safety at the states and settlements corresponding to the Federal Immigration Policy.
In California on Monday, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rod -Alend, Vermont and Washington, as well as the County of Colombia joined in court on Monday.
