Sanctuary Cities

Sanctuary jurisdictions across the United States last year refused to honor nearly 18,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers on criminal illegal aliens in their jails, outgoing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem revealed this week.

Acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons is criticizing the Boston Police Department for ignoring immigration detainer requests.

A Portland, Oregon, man pleaded guilty to his role in the violent assault of a U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE) officer in June 2025.  Robert Jacob Hoopes pleaded guilty to aggravated assault of a federal employee with a dangerous weapon resulting in bodily injury on Wednesday.

Two Detroit police officers were suspended without pay this week for contacts made with Border Patrol agents on two separate occasions. 

The Minneapolis businesses that exploit illegal migrants should be compensated by ordinary Americans for economic losses amid the federal enforcement of popular immigration and civil rights laws, according to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

Border chief Tom Homan announced the end of “Operation Metro Surge” in Minneapolis while declaring the successful arrest of more than 4,000 illegal migrants.

Numerous Democratic leaders say their high-migration, low-wage sanctuary city economies are crashing because President Donald Trump is requiring them to comply with national labor laws.

On Tuesday’s “CNN News Central,” gubernatorial candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) stated that Democrats shouldn’t accept any changes to sanctuary cities as part of negotiations on DHS funding, and a sanctuary city means we don’t deport people “for helping to

The Mayor of Minneapolis says his political coalition’s standoff with ICE is wrecking his unusual and peculiar Sanctuary City Economy.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said that his position on sanctuary cities has changed and he doesn’t think they make everyone safer and cities should turn over criminals who are in custody because “the

ICE agents arrested Guatemalan national Samuel Eduardo Arevalo‑Hernandez after Cottonwood County, Minnesota, officials refused to honor a federal detainer and released the alleged child sex predator back into the community. The criminal alien is charged with two counts of third‑degree penetration of a child between the ages of 14 and 15. Offical assert that this is the type of person Minnesota officials chose to protect, not American citizens.

Elected Democrats in Minnesota have not issued public statements regarding multiple killings committed by illegal immigrants in the state over the years, even as they quickly reacted to the recent death of a woman who interfered with an ICE operation and was fatally shot after allegedly driving her vehicle toward a federal officer.

Federal officials announced a major public‑safety sweep in Minneapolis on Monday, revealing that DHS has removed 2,500 criminal illegal aliens tied to violent offenses and repeat predatory crimes across the city. Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin intensified the pressure on local leaders, demanding that Mayor Jacob Frey immediately surrender the 1,360 additional criminal aliens currently sitting in city jails under ICE detainers rather than releasing them back into Minneapolis neighborhoods.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig said that sanctuary policies are bad ideas, but it’s not illegal, and the DOJ investigation into “elected leaders engaging in core protected First Amendment speech” is an

President Donald Trump says the federal government will halt “any payments” to sanctuary jurisdictions, those localities and states that refuse to cooperate with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), beginning next month.

New Hampshire’s Republican governor has a New Year’s boast: Sanctuary cities are “officially banned” as of January 1.

Texas’s new immigration‑enforcement law hit the state like a shockwave this morning, wiping out any remaining sanctuary‑style defiance by ordering every county sheriff to partner with ICE formally. The mandatory 287(g) crackdown is designed to hard‑wire deportation cooperation into every jail from the Panhandle to the Rio Grande.

Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) has announced her campaign for the United States Senate in 2026, emphasizing her commitment to Wyoming’s communities, energy production, and immigration enforcement.

A report that traces the effects of former President Barack Obama’s pro-migrant “Welcoming Cities” program finds that crime by illegal aliens soared in areas where the program was instituted.

President Donald Trump meets with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at the White House on Friday, November 21.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) confirmed Sunday that 400 Texas National Guard soldiers will be deployed to Illinois and other sanctuary states under a federal directive from President Trump, igniting a fierce interstate clash. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (D) denounced the move as “Trump’s Invasion” and called for immediate withdrawal.

A federal judge ruled against 2 sanctuary cities this week, ensuring Trump can move forward with blocking certain DOJ grants to such jurisdictions.

During his address to top military leaders, Trump pledged to “straighten out” the country’s dangerous sanctuary cities “one by one.”

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is suing the blue state of Minnesota for sanctuary policies that effectively protect criminal illegal aliens, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday.

The United States Border Patrol will add four marine patrol vessels to augment President Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. The addition of the patrol boats will allow the agency to access inland areas along the Chicago River from Lake Michigan.

Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger doubled down on turning Virginia into a sanctuary state for illegal aliens if elected governor.

Some of the illegal aliens detained at the Broadview Processing Center in Illinois, where left-wing activists recently rioted, have been convicted of domestic violence, drunk driving, and dealing fentanyl. 

A federal grand jury indicted a professor at California State University Channel Islands who is charged with throwing a tear gas canister at federal agents executing a search warrant at a marijuana farm in Camarillo this summer. The grand jury returned the indictment on Wednesday.

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons is sounding the alarm on the public safety risks posed by sanctuary jurisdictions across the United States. In Part Two of an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Lyons detailed how local governments that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement are endangering communities and forcing ICE agents into increasingly dangerous operations.

Federal law enforcement officers and agents made their 5,000th arrests of criminal aliens in the Los Angeles area on Tuesday, according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The law enforcement actions in the illegal alien sanctuary city led to the removal of gang members, child predators, and murderers, she said. Criminal alien 5,000 was identified as a convicted drug trafficker and aggravated felon from Mexico who had been previously deported.

A San Francisco federal judge this week expanded an order forbidding the Trump administration from withholding federal funds from sanctuary cities for refusing to cooperate with immigration authorities.

A suspected illegal alien was killed after darting onto a freeway to avoid contact with federal immigration officers conducting an enforcement operation at a Home Depot store in Monrovia on Thursday, according to city officials. The man was struck by a passing motorist and taken to a hospital, where he later died.

Attorney General Pam Bondi warned that California will lose federal funding unless Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) ends the state’s sanctuary city policies.

The Santa Ana city council approved a new $100,000 fund of taxpayer dollars to pay the rent of illegal migrants who are “affected by immigration enforcement.”

The FBI announced the arrest of a sheriff from Suffolk County, Massachusetts, on charges of extortion. The arrest of the immigration sanctuary county sheriff follows an investigation into allegations that he extorted $50,000 from a Boston-based cannabis company.

Sanctuary Democrats, including Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, are “choosing criminals,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said Friday.