An American judge ruled on Thursday that the president of the United States, Donald Trump, cannot retain federal funds for the governments of the governments sanctuaries by giving some kind of protection to irregular migrants.
Trump has promised to deport millions of migrants without residence permit, one of the measures of his hard hand program against foreigners who focused his campaign to get a second term.
San Francisco, Chicago and New York They are considered sanctuary cities because they prohibit their officials who cooperate with federal agencies in the identification and expulsion of irregular migrants.
The Republican President has lashed out at local authorities that disregard his government and threatened to cut the federal funds for roads and transport infrastructure unless these cities and counties cooperate with the agents of the Immigration and Customs Control Service.
Trump and his administration “are the present restricted and prohibited to directly or indirectly take any action to retain, freeze or condition federal funds of the cities and counties” that protect the irregular way, wrote in an order Stephen Miller, judge of the northern district of California.
Trump’s Cabinet Deputy Chief, Stephen Miller, said in X the “state coup (state) continues.”
Although they vary according to each case, the sanctuary cities often prohibit local officials to inform federal agents about the presence of irregular migrants if they are at risk of being deported.
The previous administrations have carried out deportations routinely, but in their second mandate, Trump uses military planes and even tries to cancel the visas of foreign students who protest against US policy.
The Republican has also invoked a law of the 19th century, only used in times of war so far, to expel El Salvador to about 300 migrants to which he accuses of belonging to criminal gangs.
A federal judge prevented last week that the Trump government revoked the legal status of hundreds of thousands of migrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti.
The White House warned in March that it was working to cancel the residence permit of about 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who arrived in the United States under a program approved by former president Joe Biden in October 2022.
The Democrat’s program allowed entry in the United States for two years to a maximum of 30,000 migrants per month from these four countries.
