Mayor Parker faces pressure to reassert Philly's sanctuary status as Trump threatens Democratic cities

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Jurisdictions in nearly two dozen states help ICE by providing information and manpower under a program called "287g," named for a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
46% : Mayor Brandon Johnson, a progressive, told the Post that his administration is preparing for potential federal funding cuts but won't change its policy to comply with ICE.
42% : That church resistance reawakened when Trump took office.
42% : That's what happened to Lehigh County and Allentown officials, who were successfully sued for keeping a man in prison -- even after he posted bail -- so that ICE could investigate his immigration status.
39% : At one point in 2019, more undocumented migrants had taken sanctuary in Philadelphia churches than in any city in the country, blocking their deportation by putting themselves beyond the reach of ICE.
37% : Trump said during the campaign that he would ask Congress to pass a law outlawing sanctuary cities, and demand that the "full weight of the federal government" fall upon jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
35% : The Kenney administration successfully argued in court that it was not part of the immigration-enforcement apparatus and did not have to devote staff to help ICE do its work.
32% : "The most prominent example of a city that could come under federal scrutiny may be Chicago, which Trump has repeatedly criticized as crime-ridden.
20% : The Kenney administration fought and won a major lawsuit in 2018 over Trump's effort to make local police enforce federal immigration laws, kicked ICE out of a database it believed the agency was using to find undocumented people, and barred city employees from asking residents about their immigration status.

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