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Trump wants to cut funding to sanctuary cities and towns – but they don’t actually violate federal law

  • Written by Benjamin Gonzalez O'Brien, Associate Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University
imageWhile sanctuary policies for immigrants have grown in the U.S. since the 1980s, the Trump administration is the first to challenge them. Marcos Silva/iStock/Getty Images Plus

San Francisco, Chicago and New York are among the major cities – as well as more than 200 small towns and counties and a dozen states – that over the past 40...

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