The Latest: Sessions asks 'sanctuary cities' to reconsider [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Updated 4:57 pm, Tuesday, September 19, 2017

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on the Trump administration's opposition to "sanctuary cities" that limit cooperation with U.S. immigration officials (all times local):

2:10 p.m.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has urged "sanctuary cities" to reconsider their status. He says sanctuary cities undermine the moral authority of law.

The attorney general spoke as the Trump administration appealed a San Francisco judge's ruling that blocks its effort to withhold money from "sanctuary cities."

Days earlier, a federal judge in Chicago at least temporarily blocked the administration's attempt to withhold public safety grant money from cities that don't cooperate.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/The-Latest-Sessions-asks-sanctuary-cities-to-12210155.php

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