From left to right, the mayor of Denver, Michael Johnston, the mayor of Chicago, the mayor of Boston, the mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu and David J. Bier, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, during a home supervision of the house and the hearing of the government reform committee on the guidelines of the US Capitors on March 5, 2025 in Washington, DC, sworn in (Alex Wongy).
Washington -The US Ministry of Homeland Protection at the weekend has filed a public list of cities and jurisdiction, which the Trump government described as a “sanctuary” cities after a edged consideration of a group that represented 3,000 sheriffs and local law enforcement authorities.
On Saturday, the President of the National Sheriffs’ Association Sheriff Kieran Donahue beat the list as “unnecessary erosion of unity and cooperation with the law enforcement authorities”.
“The completion and publication of this list not only violated the core principles of trust, cooperation and partnership with other law enforcement agencies, but also the potential to burden the relationship between Sheriffs and the administration of the White House,” said Donahue.
DHS released the list on Thursday and was not available until Sunday. It is unclear when it was removed, but the internet archive will be shown on Saturday, since the list was last dynamic.
In a statement, DHS did not answer any questions why the list was removed.
“As we have already mentioned, the list is constantly checked and can be changed at any time and updated regularly,” said a DHS spokesman. “The name of a sanctuary jurisdiction is based on the evaluation of numerous factors, including self -determination as a sanctuary court, non -compliance with the federal law enforcement authorities in the enforcement of immigration laws, restrictions on the exchange of information and legal protection for illegal foreigners.”
The DHS Secretary Kristi Noem in Fox News Sonntag did not recognize that the list was decreased, but said some places “pushed back”.
“They think because they have no law in the books that they do not qualify but they qualify,” said Noem. “They give criminals a refuge.”
The list followed Trump Executive Order
Local law enforcement agencies enforced the immigration by immigrants in local prisons until the federal immigration officers can arrive.
The creation of the list comes from Donald Trump’s executive order in April This required DHS to create a list of cities that do not work with federal immigration officials in order to deprive the financing of the federal governments from these local governments.
These jurisdiction are often referred to as “protective cities”, but the city still occurs in the city – there is only no coordination between the local government and the federal government.
The jurisdiction are often a goal for the Trump government and the Republicans who support President Donald Trump campaign promise of the mass shift of people without constant legal status.
Congress Republicans in March grilled mayor from Boston, Chicago and Denver about the immigration policy of their cities during A six -hour hearing Before monitoring the US house and the government reform committee.
“Strong objection”
Local officials were confused by the list.
A Law Enforcement Association in North Dakota questioned why several counties – Billings, Golden Valley, Grant, Morton, Ramsey, Sioux and Slope – were classified as refuge, since these areas work together with federal migration.
In an explanation, the North Dakota Sheriff’s and Deputies Association said that “criteria used to compile this list are unknown”, and there was no communication between DHS about how this could be corrected “.
“The chosen sheriffs of these districts require the language in this publication, which they endanger the American communities,” said NDSDA.
“The sheriff and the MPs of the North Dakota Sheriff and Deputies are working on collecting further information about the lack of transparency and argument about why the Ministry of Homeland Security was not checked before these districts in North Dakota were incorrectly named.”
Local interest groups also found the problems with the DHS list.
“I assume that you (the list) have removed because they were bombed with symptoms about inaccuracy and how and why these different jurisdiction were on the list,” said Steven Brown, managing director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island, in an interview on Monday.
According to the Internet Archive -Website Wayback machineThe states and the district of Columbia, who were on the list York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington State and Wisconsin.
Christopher Shea and Amy Dalrymple contributed to this story.
