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Dani Anguiano and agencies

Trump can’t withhold funds from sanctuary cities, says federal judge

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Protesters demonstrate against Trump's order threatening to withhold funding from sanctuary cities, in San Francisco, California, in 2017. Photograph: Haven Daley/AP

The Trump administration cannot deny federal funds to cities and counties that have passed laws preventing or limiting cooperation with US immigration officials, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.

The US district judge William Orrick issued a temporary injunction sought by San Francisco, Santa Clara county and and more than a dozen other municipalities with “sanctuary” policies, and declared that portions of Donald Trump’s executive orders were unconstitutional.

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