AG Pam Bondi orders DOJ to pause all funding for sanctuary cities WASHINGTON — Newly inaugurated Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered the defunding of jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities Wednesday — potentially cutting off a significant money source for New York. Bondi, 59, issued the edict shortly after being sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas at an Oval Office ceremony with President Trump in attendance. “[T]he Department of Justice will ensure that, consistent with law, ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ do not receive access to Federal funds from the Department,” Bondi’s first-day memo says. __________________________ There should be a sweeping EO pausing all federal funds to sanctuary cities, which should bring them to heel quickly.
Put the money aside to be paid in full when and if obedience to Trump has been achieved. The population centers are exploited, they're waiting for Trump to save them.
Some of the Blue states/counties say they will fight this in court and others say they get most of their money from the state and can essentially get by without federal help. Illinois - I think they're hoping Trump would stop other types of federal funding that has nothing to do with immigration (e.g. Nonemergency/Emergency/Disaster/Wildfire Suppression). I was shock to learn most of the federal funding (+70%) to Illinois was for Disaster/Wildfire Suppression. That's a shocking number to me considering we have lots of fresh water like Lake Michigan (the largest body of fresh water in the U.S.) and a nearby forest fire facility with those big yellow belly airplanes to pick up water to dump it on forest fires. In contrast, most of the Red states/counties say they will follow orders from Trump instead of losing federal funding. By the way, most of the deportations have been from the Blue states/counties. Simply, if someone is an illegal immigrant in a Blue state/county...its time for him/her to migrate to a Red state/county. Yet, that doesn't imply that tomorrow ICE will spend less time looking for immigrants in Red state/counties. A relative (alumni of Ohio State University) lives at my 2nd home in the North Suburbs of Chicago. A few days ago she said there are less Hispanic students and less Asian students on campus at Northwestern. It correlates with what I saw in my recent visit to downtown Chicago after a annual physical at VA Hines medical center in the West Suburbs...hardly any foot traffic in down town Chicago including the Trump International Hotel area that's on the magnificent mile. I had lunch at my favorite restaurant on the magnificent mile without reservation...a place that has always required reservation for lunch. This is a street where restaurants use to have a waiting line that extends to outside. No more lines. In addition, stores nearby to the Trump International Hotel looked empty and I didn't see anyone leaving or entering the Trump Hotel as I walked by. That's the first time I've seen that since it was built. wrbtrader
only a small group want the sanctuary policies. either out of guilt or for exploitation. outside of cook county the state is redneck. the illegals were scooped up just prior to the DNC and initially were going to be housed in a building deemed toxic; the governor had to prevent that. They were then sent to a marginalized community whose residents then shouted down the comic book villain mayor. Mayor's response ... racism. also, I heard it's maga country if you're out getting subway sandwich at 2am on a tuesday in february.
Pam just gave sanctuary to NYC Mayor Adams, dismissed case without prejudice. The deep state is just a bunch of money hungry goons working for global corporations using our own tax dollars against us.
The normal minds in the country thought that the overwhelming, compelling reason to move Lori Lightfoot out would be to replace an outright fucking loon with someone better. Not a lot of normal minds in Chicago. Lori was 100% batshit crazy but Chicagoans said "that is not good enough for us. We deserve 150%."
Of course Trump is further screwing Chicago and its residents by letting leading criminals out of prison. Trump's pardon of Blagojevich insults Illinoisans who are fed up with corruption And can President Trump find no one with a clean record to represent Americans as ambassadors? Crime pays, it seems, in Trump’s orbit — including the Jan. 6 rioters he pardoned. https://chicago.suntimes.com/editor...-corruption-joe-biden-hunter-chicago-illinois