Jeff Sessions: Memo and Immigration Authorities

jeff sessions: The memo, also issued Monday, reasserts the department's position that Trump's executive order applies to a relatively small amount of money, specifically grants that require localities to comply with a specific immigration law related to information-sharing among police and federal immigration authorities, according to The Chronicle Herald. The DOJ said the memo contradicts many of the bases upon which the court relied in arriving at its decision to block the order. The U.S. Department of Justice asked U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick for permission to file documents asking the judge to reconsider or clarify his ruling in light of a new memo by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Orrick appeared to address the administration's arguments in his April ruling. Orrick cited Trump's reference to the order as a weapon as evidence that the administration intended to cut off a broad swath of federal funding, not just three U.S. Department of Justice and Homeland Security grants as government attorneys argued. The judge rejected the claim that the executive order applies only to a relatively small pot of money and said President Donald Trump cannot set new conditions on spending approved by Congress. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.