Sentences with phrase «federal law enforcement grants»

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman is heading a coalition of 16 Attorneys General in a new amicus brief to protect cities and police departments from federal funding cuts, supporting a challenge to the Trump administration's efforts to punish so - called «sanctuary» jurisdictions by putting immigration - related conditions on federal law enforcement grants.

De Blasio sent a letter to the U.S. Justice Department asserting that NYC was cooperating with immigration officials to the extent required under federal law and that the city should not, as the Justice Department has argued, forfeit a $ 4.3 million federal law enforcement grant.

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The hacker continued on a policy soapbox, haranguing the Federal Bureau of Investigation for advocating that tech companies grant law enforcement «backdoor» access to their products.

California plans to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice over federal restrictions on some law enforcement grants to so - called sanctuary cities, a spokesperson for the state's attorney general office said.

The Justice Department is following through on an executive order to withhold as much as $ 4.1 billion in federal grants from so - called «sanctuary cities,» generally defined as places where local law enforcement limit their cooperation with federal authorities on immigration enforcement.

The Justice Department says it won't give cities some law enforcement grant money unless they give federal immigration authorities access to jails and alert them when someone facing deportation will be released from local custody.

President Trump has two options, according to USA Today: File lawsuits against sanctuary - observing cities, counties and states for violating federal law by refusing to cooperate with immigration enforcement and withhold federal grant money for local law enforcement agencies.

A paragraph in the executive order specifies that jurisdictions that don't comply, shall be deemed «not eligible to receive federal grants... except as deemed necessary for law enforcement purposes.»

According to an executive action Trump signed Wednesday, cities that don't comply with federal immigration enforcement agents «are not eligible to receive federal grants, except as deemed necessary for law enforcement purposes by the Attorney General or the Secretary.»

DHS allows state and local law enforcement to buy cell - site simulators using more than $ 1.8 million in federal grants, some of which were administered through FEMA.