A list of 14 country circles and 200 cities, which were classified by the Trump administration as immigration protection areas, has disappeared from a government website, but still depends on the heads of civil servants who are exposed to a threat of loss of federal funds.
“We were put on a list with many other sheriffs across the country without a clear reason and without a clear reason,” said Sheriff Charles Blackwood from Orange County, North Carolina, a strongly democratic county that still corresponds to a new state law, working with immigration lens.
“The list is gone. Am I satisfied that it was corrected? Yes. Am I satisfied that it is over? No,” said Blackwood.
The list rose on May 29th. It called for the “cities, counties and states that deliberately hinder the implementation of the federal immigration laws and endanger American citizens”. The White House had already threatened them to “suspend or terminate” federal funds.
Together with the counties and cities, the list named the entire states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and the District of Columbia as “state areas”.
In some areas, reacted immediately, not only democratic states and districts with legal policy for declining cooperation with deportation, but also conservative areas that were mystified by their inclusion.
“We consider it a kind of confusion. We will certainly support ours with law enforcement authorities,” said James Davel, administrative coordinator for Shawano County, Wisconsin, who, despite no obvious immigration protection policy, was included. In 2024, the district voted for President Donald Trump by more than 67%.
A possible explanation: The district authority passed a decision in 2021 and declared Shawano as a “Second Amendment Sanctuary County” as a sign of “vigorous support for the second amendment of the peoples to keep and bear weapons”.
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The list disappeared in a few days on the US Ministry of Homeland Protection website after the National Sheriffs' Association had complained that many counties were incorrectly recorded.
“It was quite a debacle,” said Patrick Royal, spokesman for the Sheriffs' Association. “We work with the administration to solve as much as possible.”
But Kristi Noem, secretary of the home protection protection, said in a television appearance that the list would come back and was largely precise.
“This list is used absolutely further and is identified these cities and jurisdiction that does not honor law and justice,” said Noem in a FOX News interview on June 1st.
So far, the courts have confirmed local laws that restrict cooperation with the federal immigration liability. California won a lawsuit on this topic in 2017 on the first Trump government, and the same federal judge issued an injunction in which it was not possible to retain immigration cooperation during a new procedure on this topic.
The President of the National Sheriffs' Association, Sheriff Kieran Donahue from Canyon County, Idaho, said in a statement on May 31 that the list “Without contributions, compliance criteria or mechanism was created for the objections to the name”. He said it was “an unhappy and unnecessary erosion of unity and cooperation with the law enforcement authorities”. Canyon County was not on the list even though the city of Boise was.
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“The real problem is how to define a sanctuary?” Said Puttel-Kavanaugh. “To have an association that usually supports this administration, and their agenda shows problems with the definition.”
Watauga County, North Carolina, was on the list when it first appeared on May 29, but had expired before losing weight. The district's congress representative, the Republican Virginia Foxx, said in a Facebook post that she had intervened.
In the post office, Foxx called it “a mistake … During the bidges, which led to Watauga County was listed incorrectly as a protective district of sanctuary”. She also said that “Watauga County is no longer listed” after she “contacted DHS”.
Jessica Vaughan, director of political studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that favored less immigration, said her list of jurisdiction of the sanctuary included Watauga, who were listed as “non-cooperative institutions” in June 2024.
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Vaughan said data that ICE requested show that some counties in North Carolina have not yet kept all prisoners this year until the beginning of February, but Watauga is not one of them.
“You should probably come off the list,” she said. “None of these sheriffs contacted me by checking their guidelines or the deposit from the card. I would like to do myself and have often done so with sheriffs in other states.”
Sheriff Len Hagaman from Watuga County announced Stateline by e -mail that he had contacted the Federal Officials Immigration Officer and confirmed that his district, who was democratic for the President last year, had a solid recording with immigration liability.
Hagaman played on a Facebook post in April by the US Senator Thom Tillis, a Republican in North Carolina, who testifies Watauga and eight other counties in North Carolina as an immigration area.
“For a few weeks now, together with other sheriffs in North Carolina, I had to endure rough and inaccurate misinformation regarding false allegations,” wrote Hagaman.
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