{"id":299062,"date":"2017-03-15T02:37:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T01:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/number-of-sanctuary-cities-nears-500\/"},"modified":"2017-03-15T02:37:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T01:37:05","slug":"number-of-sanctuary-cities-nears-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/number-of-sanctuary-cities-nears-500\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of Sanctuary Cities Nears 500"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Nearly 500 jurisdictions are now sanctuary cities, according to a group that\u2019s tracked the issue for more than a decade, and who said there\u2019s been a massive surge in the number of places trying to thwart federal immigration agents since President Trump\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>The Ohio Jobs &amp; Justice Political Action Committee\u00a0has added more than three dozen new cities and counties to its list in 2017 alone, as jurisdictions rush to try to shield illegal immigrants from what they expect to be a new push for deportations under Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore will be coming,\u201d said Steve Salvi, founder of OJJ. \u201cA lot of communities now, there\u2019s resolutions in the works and citizens groups encouraging city councils to pass them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps just as surprising, though, are the four cities OJJ has removed from its list or is poised to remove, once it gets final confirmation of cooperation with Homeland Security officials. Two of those are in Alaska, while the other two are Dayton, Ohio, and Miami, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez announced in January that county jails would begin cooperating with federal agents on deportations, just a day after Mr. Trump issued an executive order calling for sanctuary cities to lose federal grant funding.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps just as surprising, though, are the four cities OJJ has removed from its list or is poised to remove, once it gets final confirmation of cooperation with Homeland Security officials. Two of those are in Alaska, while the other two are&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/number-of-sanctuary-cities-nears-500\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 500 jurisdictions are now sanctuary cities, according to a group that\u2019s tracked the issue for more than a decade, and who said there\u2019s been a massive surge in the number of places trying to thwart federal immigration agents since President Trump\u2019s election. The Ohio Jobs &amp; Justice Political Action Committee\u00a0has added more than three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-299062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}