If the persons civil rights have been violated. they can sue. But the liability is with the Department of Homeland Security. as it should be. and not against local law enforcement officials who are temporarily acting on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security. Having corrected that problem. if this amendment passes. what we say is this: If you want to. nevertheless. be a sanctuary city and refuse to allow the local police to cooperate with Federal immigration officials. then we are going to withhold community development block grant funds from such a community. As you know. these are the funds that have great discretion in the hands of local elected officials to spend on various projects. The fact is that sanctuary cities impose a very real costa real cost for the Federal Government. The most important cost. by far. is the danger to society that it imposes. It is entirely reasonable for the Federal Government to withhold some of these grants in the event that a city chooses to inflict that cost on the rest of us.
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