Then and Now: Watch Trump Softening His Stance on Immigration

It allows undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S.as a child to receive temporary work authorization and relief from deportation.

The political stakes couldn’t be higher.

Kris Kobach, who helped write tough immigration laws in Arizona and elsewhere, an architect of anti-immigration efforts who said he is advising President-elect Donald Trump, disclosed this on Wednesday in Missouri. He renewed that pledge last weekend, in the wake of his surprising victory. However, San Francisco is a sanctuary city which offers only limited cooperation with ICE so Sanchez was released.

Philadelphia Mayor Kim Kenny restored sanctuary status when he took office in January and said last week the city would act against federal attempts to deport its residents.

A spokeswoman for Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti told Fortune in an email that their city, too, intends to hold steady on its policies.

Immigrants with pending deportation orders: 88,128 as of 2015, according to Executive Office for Immigration Review at Justice Department.

That provision of the law prohibits government entities and state officials “from taking action to prohibit or in any way restrict the maintenance or intergovernmental exchange of [immigration status] information, including through written or unwritten policies or practices”.

Deportations under Obama soared with 400,000 in 2012. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is also within DHS, and is responsible for enforcing the country’s immigration laws. U.S. Rep. Bill Keating, whose sixth district includes Cape Cod and the state’s south coast, said a year ago in an interview with the New Boston Post that he supports punishing cities that violate federal law by embracing sanctuary policies. “And the potential is also there for other kinds of penalties”. “We are not Republicans first”, Obama said.

The Obama administration has deported more immigrants residing illegally in the United States than any other administration in history.

The president-elect has vowed to cut federal funding to those cities as one of his first official actions following his January 20 inauguration.

Utah has an undocumented population of about 80,000 people.

Curtatone told the Boston Globe on Monday that Somerville stands to lose about $6 million in federal funding if Trump has his way.

San Francisco – A large crowd cheered Monday as San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee vowed that the city will remain a sanctuary for immigrants, gays and lesbians and religious minorities despite the election of a president who strikes fear into many of those communities.

Trump didn’t elaborate further on his plans for cracking down on the cities, and in a “60 Minutes” interview broadcast Sunday, he said his administration’s immediate priority will be on deporting criminals and securing the border.

People wave and call “We are here” and “You are not alone” in Spanish to immigrant detainees at the Metropolitan Detention Center during one of several May Day marches in Los Angeles earlier this year.

MPI estimates that a more accurate figure of undocumented immigrants with criminal records would be closer to 820,000.