U.S. Department of Justice calls out "Sanctuary Jurisdictions" over immigration enforcement
Sunday, August 10, 2025
“Sanctuary policies impede law enforcement and put American citizens at risk by design,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “The Department of Justice will continue bringing litigation against sanctuary jurisdictions and work closely with the Department of Homeland Security to eradicate these harmful policies around the country.”
On April 28, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14287: Protecting American Communities from Criminal Aliens. The Executive Order recognized that “some State and local officials . . . continue to use their authority to violate, obstruct, and defy the enforcement of Federal immigration laws” and “[i]t is imperative that the Federal Government restore the enforcement of United States law.” The Executive Order directed the Justice Department, in collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security, to publish a list of such jurisdictions. Accordingly, the following states, cities, and counties have been identified as sanctuary jurisdictions:
STATES:
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Illinois
- Minnesota
- Nevada
- New York
- Oregon
- Rhode Island
- Vermont
- Washington
COUNTIES:
- Baltimore County, MD
- Cook County, IL
- San Diego County, CA
- San Francisco County, CA
CITIES:
- Albuquerque, NM
- Berkeley, CA
- Boston, MA
- Chicago, IL
- Denver, CO
- East Lansing, MI
- Hoboken, NJ
- Jersey City, NJ
- Los Angeles, CA
- New Orleans, LA
- New York City, NY
- Newark, NJ
- Paterson, NJ
- Philadelphia, PA
- Portland, OR
- Rochester, NY
- Seattle, WA
- San Francisco City, CA
In recent months, the Justice Department has filed several lawsuits against sanctuary jurisdictions seeking to compel compliance with federal law, including one against New York City on July 24th. Recently, the Mayor of Louisville agreed to revoke their sanctuary policies following a letter from the Justice Department threatening legal action.
Read more about the sanctuary jurisdiction list and the criteria for inclusion here. This list is not exhaustive and will be updated as federal authorities gather further information. The federal government will assist any jurisdiction that desires to be taken off this list to identify and eliminate their sanctuary policies, so they no longer stand in opposition to federal immigration enforcement.
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6 comments:
How can we best signal that we DESIRE to renew our commitment to being a sanctuary for all?
If you take federal money you don't then get to have your own immigration policy. The feds are perfectly within their rights to withhold it. Sanctuary cities, states, counties are unconstitutional. That should have been made plain decades ago.
We all are seeking sanctuary from this administration.
Do those of us on the West Coast/ Left Coast / Best Coast need to continue to pay our federal taxes ? Does President Trump have enough billionaire supporters to run his show without our tax dollars? Just wondering - last I knew the Speaker of the House is from a state that sucks big time from the government teat.
Trump is unconstitutional!
Trump doing the right thing. If you won’t follow the laws, you won’t get funding. Legal immigration is so important to our nation. However, illegals got to go. No other country opens their borders like Biden did. It set this country back generations financially.
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