Questions, Resistance Greet Trump’s Immigration Orders in California

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San Francisco groups rallied outside City Hall in protest of President Donald Trump's executive orders regarding immigration enforcement. Photo by Alex Emslie/KQED

By Marisa Lagos, KQED News/The California Report

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Wednesday dealing with immigration policy — including one that seeks to strip federal funding from “sanctuary jurisdictions.”

“Sanctuary jurisdictions across the United States willfully violate federal law in an attempt to shield aliens from removal of the United States,” he wrote in the order. “These jurisdictions have caused immeasurable harm to the American people and to the very fabric of our republic.”

Read the complete story at KQED News/The California Report.

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