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order: City Attorney applauds ruling that blocks Trump's sanctuary city order Reuters The injunction will stay in place while the lawsuits work their way through court, according to Globe and Mail. The judge rejected the administration's argument that the executive order applies only to a relatively small pot of money and said Trump cannot set new conditions on spending approved by Congress. U.S. District Judge William Orrick issued the preliminary injunction in two lawsuits one brought by the city of San Francisco, the other by Santa Clara County against an executive order targeting communities that protect immigrants from deportation. Even if the president could do so, those conditions would have to be clearly related to the funds at issue and not coercive, as the executive order appeared to be, Orrick said. It was the third major setback for the administration on immigration policy. Federal funding that bears no meaningful relationship to immigration enforcement cannot be threatened merely because a jurisdiction chooses an immigration enforcement strategy of which the president disapproves, the judge said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.