Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel “has taken his fight against President Trump’s immigration policies to court,” write Michael Tarm and Sophia Tareen of the Associated Press.
Tarm and Tareen report that Chicago became one of the first cities “to sue the government over what many U.S. cities argue are illegal bids to withhold public safety grants from so-called sanctuary cities.”
In related news, “For the first time since it began extending the detentions of local inmates sought for deportation, Miami-Dade County received word from Washington that it won’t be treated as a community giving “sanctuary” to immigration violators,” writes Douglas Hanks in the Miami Herald.
Hanks reports that An Aug. 4 letter to Mayor Carlos Gimenez from the Justice Department said “there was no evidence” Miami-Dade was out of compliance with an immigration provision of a federal police grant worth about $480,000 this year to the county.
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The Immigration and Refugee News Digest 