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Trump Administration Publishes List of Sanctuary Cities and Counties to Target

Administration has threatened to pull funding from jurisdictions that don’t cooperate with immigration enforcement

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The Trump administration on Thursday named counties and cities in more than 30 states, including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle, as sanctuary jurisdictions it could go after for not complying with federal immigration laws.

President Trump has threatened to pull federal funding and pursue lawsuits against places that don’t change their practices.

Sanctuary cities place limits on asking residents about their immigration status and on helping federal officials with immigration enforcement. That makes it harder for the administration to arrest people who are in the U.S. illegally and makes Trump’s push for mass deportations more difficult.

Trump in late April ordered the attorney general and the Department of Homeland Security to identify these cities and states within a month. 

Several of the administration’s executive orders have called for withholding funds from sanctuary cities, leading to litigation from cities and states. A federal judge in California in April barred the federal government from withholding funds from cities and counties in the state under the executive orders while the case continues.

That judge criticized the failure of the executive orders to define which jurisdictions were sanctuaries.

The DHS list contained counties and cities across New England, and on the West Coast in Washington, California and Oregon, along with jurisdictions in Hawaii and Alaska. Cities and counties in New Mexico, Tennessee, Colorado, Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota were also named, as well as Washington, D.C.

“We are exposing these sanctuary politicians who harbor criminal illegal aliens and defy federal law,” said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. 

By Friday afternoon, cracks were emerging in the list, which had multiple spelling errors, with several cities nationwide saying they had been included erroneously. 

“The entire city of Las Vegas is surprised,” Mayor Shelley Berkley said in televised remarks. “We have never been a sanctuary city. We are not a sanctuary city. We’re not ever going to be a sanctuary city.” Nevada’s Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo  said in a statement that “Las Vegas is working to quickly resolve this incorrect categorization with the Department of Homeland Security.”

Trump Administration's List of Sanctuary Cities and Counties

 

 
State Type Name
Washington County Skagit County
Washington County Skamania County
Washington County Snohomish County
Washington County Spokane County
Washington County Stevens County
Washington County Thurston County
Washington County Wahkiakum County
Washington County Walla Walla County
Washington County Whatcom County
Washington County Whitman County
10 20 30 40 50  entries per page
Showing 581 to 590 of 594 entries

Data is correct as of May 30 at 4 p.m.

dhs.gov

In Michigan, Oakland County Executive David Coulter and Sheriff Michael Bouchard released a joint statement “addressing the erroneous inclusion” on the list of sanctuary cities. 

“We are not a sanctuary jurisdiction. We are confident that the county’s policies and practices comply with federal law and we were incorrectly placed on this list,” the statement said.

 

Also among cities that made the list was Huntington Beach, Calif., where a MAGA-supporting council has passed a resolution explicitly declaring the city a “non-sanctuary city.” 

The list skewed toward northern and traditionally blue cities or counties. In Georgia, the cities of Atlanta and Athens were named. Some states, like New York, were earmarked as a self-identified sanctuary jurisdiction. Roughly 12 cities within the state, from Albany to East Hampton to New York City, were on the list. 

Each jurisdiction will receive formal notification of its noncompliance, the DHS said. The list will be updated regularly, according to the agency.

After the list’s release, more than 50 government leaders from sanctuary jurisdictions, including some involved in the lawsuit that won the preliminary injunction, and the Public Rights Project said they would continue to oppose Trump’s immigration crackdown. 

“The administration’s actions and threats defy the Constitution and decades of legal precedent. The courts rejected this playbook in 2017, and the law hasn’t changed,” the coalition said.

Write to Tali Arbel at tali.arbel@wsj.com

 

Appeared in the May 30, 2025, print edition as 'Targeted Sanctuary Jurisdictions Disclosed'.

Author: Tali Arbel

Source: WSJ:

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