Posted on 01/09/2020 2:40:56 AM PST by 11th_VA
BOSTON, Mass. (WPRI) — The U.S. Department of Justice is continuing its fight to deny federal grants to police in Providence and Central Falls because the cities don’t cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
Deputy Associate U.S. Attorney General Brian Pandya argued the case Wednesday before a panel of three judges on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston. The Justice Department is appealing a lower court judge’s decision in favor of Providence.
“Grant recipients should not be undermining federal law enforcement priorities,” Pandya told the judges.
Cutting federal funds to so-called “sanctuary cities” was a campaign promise by Republican President Donald Trump in 2016, and his Justice Department has been attempting to fulfill it for nearly three years.
Providence and Central Falls have so far been successful in fighting the change in policy, which requires that cities cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in certain ways to be eligible for federal grants...(snip)
... The panel of appeals court judges — Judge David Barron, retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter and Judge Bruce Selya — are expected to render a written decision on the appeal in the coming months.
(Excerpt) Read more at wpri.com ...
They are clearly in violation of Federal statutes.
8 U.S. Code § 1324. Bringing in and harboring certain aliens
This is a slam dunk! They are law breakers! The Federal government has the absolute right and authority to declare state and local laws unconstitutional. The Supremacy Clause ensures that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land and the foundation of our government.
Hello?
Anyone home?
Interesting point ...
good
L8r
If they don’t follow the rules, why should the government (the American taxpayers) give them money? Hell no!
A crime is NOT a crime unless “up voted” by factions of social media.
Actual crimes, listed in statutes, go uncharged if the laws are deemed “unpopular” or “uncool” or the perpetrator(s)/cause “popular” or “cool”.
We’ve surpassed giving a badge to Elvis and a gun boat to Hemingway and landed in medieval Europe.
The serfs will love the new feudal system if they can choose which witch to burn.
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