Each jurisdiction will receive a notice stating that the government considers it noncompliant with immigration law and may be violating federal criminal statutes.

Montgomery County was also on the list. So were the cities of Pittsburgh, Gettysburg, State College. NJ was named as a sanctuary state. Burlington County, Camden City, and Trenton were also listed.

In the letter to the Department of Homeland Security, the Newsom administration contends that court rulings have rejected the argument that California sanctuary law limiting law enforcement coordination with immigration authorities "unlawfully obstructs the enforcement of federal immigration laws.

The Trump administration is building up federal manpower and resources to meet the White House’s desire to triple the number of daily immigration arrests – signaling a renewed push to go well beyond efforts from previous administrations.

Sheriff Grady Judd highlights the bottleneck in Trump's immigration crackdown due to limited ICE resources and calls for executive action to increase detention space.

A long list of cities and counties across the country are now officially in the federal government’s crosshairs for refusing to comply with immigration law. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published a sweeping new list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” that it says are deliberately defying

House Republicans are committed to an extraordinary influx of funding to ramp up the president’s deportation agenda and border enforcement.

Huntington Beach’s conservative City Council earlier this year approved a resolution declaring itself a “non-sanctuary city.”

On May 29, 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released an updated list of sanctuary jurisdictions—states, counties, and cities that, according to DHS, obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration laws.

The agency responsible for immigration enforcement has aggressively revived and expanded a decades-old program that delegates immigration enforcement powers to state and local law enforcement agencies

State officials want rule and policy changes to remove, detain immigrants in the country illegally, not just criminals, those with removal orders.

Senate Bill 8 would further expand the state’s role in enforcing immigration laws, long the sole jurisdiction of the federal government.