Trump order strips funding from sanctuary cities engaged in 'insurrection'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : In addition to creating "intolerable national security risks," the order states sanctuary jurisdictions' "nullification efforts often violate Federal criminal laws, including those prohibiting obstruction of justice, ... unlawfully harboring or hiring illegal aliens ..., conspiracy against the United States ..., and conspiracy to impede Federal law enforcement.
51% : Citing an invasion at the southern border, which Trump officially declared on his first day in office, his administration is now responding to some state and local officials who "violate, obstruct, and defy" federal immigration enforcement, the order states.
49% : They are also directed to "pursue all necessary legal remedies and enforcement measures to end these violations and bring such jurisdictions into compliance" with U.S. laws.
47% : Local jurisdictions who obstruct federal deportation efforts are engaging in "a lawless insurrection against the supremacy of Federal law and the Federal Government's obligation to defend the territorial sovereignty of the United States," it states.
47% : In order for the federal government "to restore the enforcement of United States law," Trump directed the attorney general and Secretary of Homeland Security to publish a list of states and local jurisdictions that obstruct the federal immigration enforcement.
42% : (The Center Square) - President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Monday to enhance national security and enforce federal immigration and criminal law in so-called sanctuary jurisdictions and take a range of actions against those obstructing enforcement.
36% : Each jurisdiction is to be notified of its alleged violation of federal immigration and criminal law.
32% : Trump's "Protecting American Communities from Criminal Aliens" executive order directs the departments of Justice and Homeland Security to publish a list of state and local jurisdictions that obstruct federal immigration enforcement and take action against them.

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