Attorney Sessions says sanctuary cities could lose billions of dollars

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Originally Posted by Kibby

Obama didn't put this policy in place - the US Congress passed a law in 1996 which Bill Clinton signed into Law.

I never said what you are claiming I did. geez...THIS is what I was referring to:

President Barack Obama's administration, in a letter to a member of Congress asking for guidance on sanctuary cities, also articulated how they required all grant applicants to combat with "all acceptable Federal statues, regulations, policies, guideline and requirements." Sessions Announces Crackdown on ‘Sanctuary Cities,’ States That Don’t Comply With Federal Immigration Laws | KTLA

Originally Posted by Kibby

Section 8 U.S.C. 1373, which provided that no state or local entity can in any way restrict its law-enforcement officials from communicating with federal immigration authorities regarding an individual’s citizenship or immigration status.

Read that really carefully because it does NOT mean what you seem to think it does. What that ruling refers to is that if an individual LE employee wants to talk to ICE they can.

Originally Posted by Kibby

Though the federal government cannot legally compel states to comply with federal law, it is permitted to use financial rewards or incentives to encourage states to comply. This precedent was established in the 1992 Supreme Court case New York v. United States and has been upheld and strengthened since that ruling.

You didn't actually read that, did you? Because if you had you would have found the following:

The Act provided three "incentives" for states to comply with the agreement. The first two incentives were held constitutional. The first incentive, "monetary" incentive, allowed states to collect gradually increasing surcharges for waste received from other States. The Secretary of Energy would then collect a portion of this income and redistribute it to reward states achieving a series of milestones in waste disposal. This was held to be within Congress's power under the Taxing and Spending Clause, and an "unexceptionable" exercise of that power. The second incentive, the "access" incentive, allowed states to reprimand states that missed certain deadlines by raising surcharges or eventually denying access to disposal at those state's facilities completely. This was held to be a permitted exercise of Congress's power under the Commerce Clause. The third incentive, requiring states to "take title" and assume liability for waste generated within their borders if they failed to comply, was held to be impermissibly coercive and a threat to state sovereignty, thereby violating the Tenth Amendment.

That ^ confirms exactly what I have been saying.

Originally Posted by Kibby

The US Department of Justice can (and probably will) order the DOJ Office of Inspector General to open investigations into any Sanctuary State, County or City to make sure they are compliant with the 1996 Immigration Law. That is exactly the step the DOJ IG recommended to the Obama Administration in their March 2016 Investigation. Team Obama trash canned it - Team Trump won't do that.

lolol yeah sure..and all the "sanctuary states" are going to quake in fear and ask Daddy Trump to forgive them.

Originally Posted by Kibby

Congress has the Power of the Purse & can refuse to fund these Grants in Committee.
I've posted several times that this was coming - the Sanctuary Cities also know it's coming.

Under certain conditions maybe but I think critical to the Administration being able to impose their will is going to be the necessity of ICE issuing arrest warrants rather than "detainer requests"

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DO IT, hit them hard!