US justice department sues Minnesota over sanctuary city policies

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Over the summer, the justice department sent letters to 13 states it classified as "sanctuary jurisdictions", including California and Rhode Island, and 22 local governments, from Boston to Seattle, informing their leaders that they could face prosecution or lose federal funding for "undermining" and "obstructing" federal immigration agents.
42% : Trump campaigned for the presidency on a promise of deporting millions of immigrants from the US.
41% : His administration has argued that sanctuary city laws, which limit a locality's participation with federal immigration agents, violate federal law.
13% : Last month, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from cutting off federal funding to 34 "sanctuary cities" and counties, according to an executive order Donald Trump signed at the beginning of his second term.

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