美法院裁定司法部不得切斷對“庇護城市”的撥款大綱
The federal appeals court in Chicago has rejected the Trump administration's efforts to punish so-called "sanctuary cities" for helping illegal immigrants.
The Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the Justice Department cannot deny public safety grants to cities like Chicago that resist cooperating in the department's crackdown on undocumented immigrants.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said that "from day one when we said we weren't going to allow the Trump Justice Department to bully or intimidate the city off of its values.”
Chicago sued last year after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that he would cut off cities from certain Justice Department grants unless they allowed federal immigration authorities unlimited access to local jails and provided 48 hours notice before releasing anyone wanted for immigration violations.
The ruling makes it the latest federal court, along with courts in California and Philadelphia, to restrict what the administration can try to do to pressure jurisdictions that restrict some cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.美國芝加哥市的聯邦上訴法院裁定，川普政府不得因爲一些所謂“庇護城市”幫助非法移民而對其採取懲罰性的措施。
美國第七巡迴上訴法院週四裁定，司法部不得取消向芝加哥等城市提供的公共安全撥款。芝加哥等城市在打擊非法移民方面拒絕與司法部合作。
芝加哥市長伊曼紐爾說：“從第一天起，我們就說我們不會允許川普的司法部欺負或恐嚇這個城市放棄其價值觀。”
美國司法部長塞申斯去年宣佈芝加哥等城市必須允許聯邦移民當局無限制地進入當地監獄，而且地方當局如果釋放任何違反移民規定者，也必須提前48小時通知聯邦有關當局，否則司法部就會切斷向某些城市提供的某些撥款。芝加哥市隨後將司法部告上法庭。
除了聯邦第七巡迴上訴法院以外，加州和費城地區的聯邦法院之前也都有裁決，限制政府採取措施來強迫一些城市與聯邦移民執法機構合作。
