Trump to cut federal payments to sanctuary cities starting Feb. 1 over immigration policies

President Donald Trump said his medication volition cease national payments to sanctuary cities and states with sanctuary policies starting Feb. 1, portion citing jurisdictions that support criminals and substance fraud and crime.

Speaking astatine the Detroit Economic Club, Trump said the determination was aimed astatine cities and states that garbage to cooperate with national migration enforcement.

"Starting Feb. 1, we’re not making immoderate payments to sanctuary cities oregon states having sanctuary cities due to the fact that they bash everything imaginable to support criminals astatine the disbursal of American citizens," Trump said.

"And it breeds fraud and transgression and each of the different problems that come. So we’re not making immoderate outgo to anybody that supports sanctuary," helium added.

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President Donald Trump said he's cutting disconnected national backing to sanctuary cities connected February 1. (Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump besides criticized Minnesota officials portion discussing what helium described arsenic wide fraud successful the state.

"We person besides suspended payments tied to suspected scammers successful Minnesota, of which determination are many," Trump said. "It’s a large state. It was a large state. Now it’s getting destroyed by that anserine governor."

Trump went connected to impeach the politician of corruption and said the level of fraud could not person gone unnoticed by authorities leadership.

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A wide presumption of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

The administration’s actions travel arsenic a national justice connected Jan. 9 temporarily blocked the Trump medication from stopping subsidies tied to kid attraction programs successful 5 states, including Minnesota, amid allegations of fraud.

U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian did not regularisation connected the legality of the backing frost but said the states met the ineligible threshold to sphere the "status quo" connected backing for astatine slightest 2 weeks portion ineligible arguments continue.

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services besides announced it would withhold funds for programs successful 5 Democratic-led states, citing concerns implicit fraud and misuse of national dollars.

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