The Sanctuary City Elimination Act would penalize state and local governments that have policies limiting their cooperation with federal immigration enforcement by denying them federal funding for education, economic development, environmental programs, community development, and brownfields remediation. The bill defines "sanctuary jurisdictions" as those that refuse to share immigration status information or comply with federal detention requests, though it protects information about crime victims and witnesses. To enforce compliance, the legislation allows state attorneys general to sue federal agencies to withhold these funds if a sanctuary jurisdiction releases a person who later commits a crime in another state, with the withheld money redirected to non-sanctuary jurisdictions. This bill would affect hundreds of cities and counties across the country that currently have policies limiting their role in federal immigration enforcement.
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