June 29, 2018
A Pennsylvania federal judge said Thursday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement needs a court order to transfer a "criminal alien" to a federal detention center after the immigrant is released from city custody in Philadelphia, diving into a key issue at the core of the national debate on sanctuary city policies.
June 06, 2018
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday sided with the city of Philadelphia in its bid to keep U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions from withholding critical federal funding unless the city agreed to cooperate with immigration officials.
April 25, 2018
A Pennsylvania federal judge said on Tuesday that certain incendiary remarks from President Donald Trump about immigrants would be factored into his thinking in an upcoming trial challenging the administration's threat to revoke funding from the city of Philadelphia over its refusal to cooperate fully with immigration officials.
March 14, 2018
The city of Philadelphia can continue its fight against the Trump administration's efforts to cut off federal public safety funding for so-called sanctuary cities after a Pennsylvania federal judge declined Attorney General Jeff Sessions' bid to toss the city's suit, saying that it sufficiently claims the new rules are arbitrary.
November 15, 2017
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday temporarily barred the Trump administration from rejecting Philadelphia's bid for a federal policing grant based on the city's "sanctuary city" policy toward unauthorized immigrants.
November 02, 2017
A Pennsylvania federal judge suggested at a hearing Thursday that Philadelphia was largely in compliance with a disputed requirement the city follow U.S. immigration law in order to qualify for an annual policing grant from the U.S. Department of Justice.
October 26, 2017
Philadelphia's top cop told a judge during a hearing on Thursday that efforts to force enhanced cooperation between local police and federal immigration authorities through new conditions on grant funding threatened to intimidate crime victims and witnesses out of sharing information with law enforcement.
August 30, 2017
Philadelphia has joined the fight against the Trump administration's efforts to cut off federal public safety funding for so-called sanctuary cities, filing a federal suit Wednesday that claims the new rules established by Attorney General Jeff Sessions overstep his authority.