Sanctuary Cities

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) published a list of more than 30 sanctuary cities, states, and counties in the United States that were described as impeding law enforcement and putting Americans at risk.

The Trump administration hit yet another roadblock placed by a Biden-appointed federal judge who dismissed a lawsuit this week that sought to curb sanctuary laws in Illinois.

The DOJ has filed a lawsuit against New York City Mayor Eric Adams over the city’s sanctuary policies that shield illegal aliens from ICE.

New York has spent $600 million of state and city tax dollars on organizations that work to defy immigration laws.

The city of Perris, CA, issued a public alert this week instructing residents to stay home and avoid engaging with federal immigration agents, effectively advising illegal immigrants on how to evade arrest during ongoing ICE operations.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “On Balance,” Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) stated that it should be easy for Democratic mayors in large cities to end their sanctuary policies and fully cooperate with ICE in return for protections for worksites. Host

The Trump administration is going to “triple down” and “flood the zone” on sanctuary cities, border czar Tom Homan said in a Q&A with reporters.

If you’re in this country illegally and committing crimes, you should not find refuge in Georgia. Not now. Not ever.

Celebrating the Fourth of July is proving too dangerous for Los Angeles, prompting municipalities in the area to cancel planned celebrations due to concerns about enforcement actions by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) agents. The fear did not impede hundreds from attending a “Sick-of-ICE, Sick-of-Trump” protest in the city Tuesday.

The Senate Parliamentarian on Saturday ruled that the Big Beautiful Bill’s provisions limiting funding for sanctuary cities and restraining federal courts’ ability to issue preliminary injunctions cannot be included in Trump’s landmark legislation without a 60-vote majority.

Democrats are using a House hearing on sanctuary-state governors to excuse and defend the Democrats’ welcome for millions of illegal migrants.

Rep. Tony Wied (R-WI) on Wednesday introduced legislation that would bar federal funding to localities deemed to be “anarchist jurisdictions” by the Justice Department.

According to the lawyer defending Raul Benitez-Santana, the car accident that resulted in the death of a Washington State Patrol trooper in March 2024 was not a crime.

President Donald Trump’s DHS is accusing sanctuary state politicians of “playing Russian roulette with American lives.”