States accuse Trump administration of holding emergency relief hostage over immigration policy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : A plaintiff in this lawsuit, too, New York stands to lose $5 billion annually in Department of Transportation funding, including $2.8 billion for highways and $2.3 billion for public transportation.
42% : They claim that, for the first time, their emergency relief grants are now contingent on them providing state aid to federal deportation efforts and ending any program that "benefits illegal immigrants or incentivizes illegal immigration.
41% : They claim that the Trump administration has "ignored both principles" by imposing its own will on the congressionally approved aid, "bulldozing through the Constitution's boundary between state and federal authority.
40% : That lawsuit targets the Department of Homeland Security for what the states say are sweeping new requirements on federal grant programs that force states to reroute their own police resources to federal immigration enforcement -- or risk losing billions of dollars in funding for disaster relief and emergency preparation.
39% : State attorneys general filed two lawsuits on Tuesday accusing the executive branch of withholding essential funds for not complying with federal immigration directives. (CN) -- More than a dozen states slapped the Trump administration with two new lawsuits on Tuesday, accusing it of withholding funding for both emergency relief and transportation in retaliation for the states' immigration policies.

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