Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he’ll begin punishing sanctuary cities, withholding potentially billions of dollars in federal money, in a press conference held Monday.
Sessions said his department is preparing to dole out more than $4 billion in funds this year, but will attempt to prevent any of it from going to sanctuary cities.
“Countless Americans would be alive today… if these policies of sanctuary cities were ended,” he said.
He said he’s carrying out a policy laid out by the Obama administration last year, which identified three grant programs — the COPS grants, Byrne grants and State Criminal Alien Assistance Program money — that already require sanctuary certification.
The Obama administration didn’t end up enforcing that policy, but Mr. Sessions said he’ll begin.
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