Battle Over Sanctuary Cities Heats Up as Trump Issues New Executive Orders
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 30 April 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Do states have the right to not cooperate with federal authorities on deportations of illegal immigrants? Can the federal government cut funding to states that don’t cooperate? We could soon get answers to both of these questions.
President Donald Trump is now signing an executive order targeting the so-called sanctuary cities, and this comes on the heels of legal challenges that blocked his federal freeze on cities with sanctuary policies.
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump has signed a new executive order targeting sanctuary cities. |
| 0:05.0 | This order requires the Attorney General and the Homeland Security Secretary to identify cities and states that fail to comply with federal immigration laws and potentially even pool their funding. |
| 0:16.0 | Meanwhile, as this happens, the White House got some new lawn decorations. |
| 0:20.0 | It's photographs of alleged |
| 0:22.2 | illegal immigrants and the crimes they're facing. And also, Trump is either historically unpopular |
| 0:27.3 | or historically popular, and that's going to depend on which media you're reading. The dueling |
| 0:32.6 | narratives on this front are about as opposite as you can get, and we are seeing this being |
| 0:37.2 | reflected in poll |
| 0:38.3 | numbers and also some accusations the polls may not be right. I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigative |
| 0:44.1 | Reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads. Do states have the right to cooperate with federal authorities or not to when they decide to? |
| 0:58.5 | Well, can the federal government cut funding to states if they refuse to do it? |
| 1:03.2 | Well, we could soon get answers to both of these questions. |
| 1:05.6 | President Donald Trump is now signing an executive order targeting sanctuary cities. And this comes in the heels of legal |
| 1:12.8 | challenges that blocked his federal freeze on sanctuary cities. Now look, a lot has gone on |
| 1:18.4 | over the last few days. We'll get into that. But first, one of the key parts of this is a new |
| 1:23.7 | Trump order that challenges the policies of sanctuary cities. And this executive order is called |
| 1:29.8 | protecting American communities from criminal aliens. And here's what it does according to the |
| 1:35.4 | White House fact sheet. It says this, the order directs the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland |
| 1:40.1 | Security to publish a list of states and local jurisdictions obstructing federal immigration |
| 1:47.2 | law enforcement and notify each sanctuary city jurisdiction of its noncompliance, providing an |
| 1:53.3 | opportunity to correct it. Now, real quick here, the key word is obstructing. When they're saying |
| 2:00.7 | obstructing, they're actually referring to a crime |
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