Judge halts Trump administration cuts to disaster aid for ‘sanctuary’ states

On Tuesday, a federal judge temporarily stopped a Trump management plan for states for unstable immigrants to reduce disaster assistance for states and the fight against terrorism.

US regional judge Mary S. Melroy, in a case against Monday, argued that policy was illegally costing hundreds of millions of dollars, California ordered the temporary restriction on the request of the 10 other states and the Columbia Region.

States first said they were aware of the weekend deductions. Melroy decided during an emergency hearing on the movement of the states at the Rhode Island Regional Court in the afternoon on Tuesday.

California Atty. General Rob Bonda cheered by the Trump administration as his last win against what he described as a series of illegal, financing power captures.

“The courts stopped the efforts to connect the unrelated grant financing of the Trump administration to state policies,” Bond said. “A small thing called state sovereignty, but it is not surprising that the President’s tendency to violate the constitution is not familiar with it.”

Neither the White House nor the Fund and informing the states of the deductions, the Ministry of Interior Security did not respond immediately to the request for comments on Tuesday.

The sanctuary policies are not properly and this term is not certain, but it is often due to the fact that states and local law enforcement officers – Federal migration raids or other enforcement initiatives.

The Trump administration and other Republicans formed policies such as weakening law and order. Democrats and progressives, including California, say that states and cities have limited public safety resources, and dealing with immigration practice weakens the trust that they and law enforcement officers weaken the trust they need to look at to prevent and solve the crime, including large immigrant communities.

In a statement on Monday, states, reduced financing, “Prepared, protecting, responding to disaster disasters, the administrations of both political parties before Trump before Trump for decades of” equal to the states distributed to the states of billions of federal billions of billions of dollars, he said.

The financing, which was authorized by the Congress after the activities such as September 11 and Katrina, covers the salaries of the first intervention teams, the testing of state computer networks for cyber attack security deficits, the compacts of mutual assistance between regional partners and emergency reactions after disasters.

Bonda’s office said California would receive $ 110 million instead of $ 165 million by internal security officials during the weekend and that its budget is a decrease of approximately one -third. The case of the states said that other blue states have seen even more dramatic interruptions, Illinois has seen a decrease of 69% and a decrease of 79% of New York, while the red states saw significant financing increases.

Bonda said on Tuesday, the administration, to keep everyone in the country safe, the reorganization of funds based on migration of immigration sanction priorities of the Trump administration is illegal and should be stopped on the basis of risk assessment and return to previous levels.

“California uses the grant fund in our case to protect the security of our communities from terrorism and other disasters – that is, the risks are literally life and death,” he said. “This is not something to play with politics.

The internal security officials argued that the agency should have previously been able to stop the financing from states or actively undermine the basic mission of defense from threats, including the threat he saw from illegal migration.

Other judges also decided against the disaster of management and public security financing on states and places that comply with federal migration policies.

In the case of Monday, joining California was Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington and Columbia.