An executive order on “sanctuary cities” signed by Donald Trump on Wednesday has placed in the crosshairs over 400 cities and counties that offer some form of safe haven to America’s 11 million undocumented migrants. “Local governments seeking to protect their immigrant communities from federal overreach have every right to do so,” Schneiderman said in a statement. Federal money at risk included $156m in urban area security funding, $110m of which goes towards anti-terrorism efforts, DeBlasio said. The mayor on Tuesday announced an $84.7bn budget that skirted assumptions about any federal cutbacks from the Trump administration. Pelosi’s district falls entirely within San Francisco, where the 2015 murder of Kathryn Steinle by a man who was in the country illegally was seized on by Trump and conservatives to hit back against sanctuary cities.

Source: The Guardian January 25, 2017 23:13 UTC