Los Angeles (CNN) Democratic mayors of the nation's largest cities are quickly banding together to fight President Donald Trump's crack down on so-called sanctuary cities. They're confident their status as sanctuary cities -- jurisdictions that have policies in place designed to limit cooperation with or involvement in federal immigration enforcement actions -- is secure. One of the many complex facets of how Trump's executive order will play out is the fact that the term "sanctuary city" has no universal meaning. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared Trump's executive order to be "vague and in some ways contradictory" and "very susceptible to legal challenge." Noting the executive order lacked any detail about what funds would be taken away, he decided to highlight the positive.

Source: CNN January 26, 2017 22:54 UTC