A federal judge has permanently blocked the the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from withholding around $34 million in funding to New York City’s transportation system that is meant to prevent terrorist attacks.
In a ruling issued on Oct. 16, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan argued that the Trump administration’s decision to withhold the funding because of the city’s status as a “sanctuary jurisdiction,” which blocks city cooperation with federal law enforcement in immigration enforcement efforts, was “arbitrary, capricious, and a blatant violation of the law.”
