US communities spanning from red to blue blast Trump administration's sanctuary list

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Source: AP

Updated 7:17 PM EDT, May 30, 2025


The U.S. government’s list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” that includes hundreds of communities, both red and blue, is confounding critics. They have noticed the list included misspellings, communities with small immigrant populations, and those with strong support for cooperation with federal authorities.

Jessica Vaughan is director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors anti-sanctuary policies and started publishing a list of sanctuary jurisdictions 10 years ago. The center’s list is different from the government’s. Vaughan noted that the center discloses its methodology and frequently updates its list.

“That’s one thing that I feel is missing from the (government’s) list is some documentation as to why they’re appearing on the list,” she said.

The list is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to target communities, states and jurisdiction s that it says aren’t doing enough to help its immigration enforcement agenda and the promises the president made to deport more than 11 million people living in the U.S. without legal authorization.


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/sanctuary-jurisdictions-immigration-questions-190518f6dff9b9314db36c8affd20866

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More AI "FAIL". Idiotic searches on a single "word" and BOOM! Everything using that "word" gets deleted or added to a list for removal or sanction. It's all the epitome of the LAZINESS of the GOP. They don't "work", they skate.

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Several communities said they have been outspoken supporters of the president and his stringent immigration policies and do not understand why they have been included. Among them: Shawano County, Wisconsin; Alexandria, Virginia; and Huntington Beach, California.

Jim Davel, administrator for Shawano County, thinks the administration may have confused the county’s vote in 2021 to become a “Second Amendment Sanctuary County” that prohibits gun control measures with it being a safe haven for immigrants. He said the county has approved no immigration sanctuary policies.

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1. K'n'R

They don't "work", they skate.

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2. I bet AI made the list. nt

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3. I never thought the AI leopard would eat MY face, says the anti-immigrant, gun nut county that voted Leopard

White House, using AI, mistakenly lists Custer County as a “Sanctuary” community for immigrants; a mistake that could devastate local government funding

This use of AI landed Custer County in the hot seat on Friday when it showed up on a list published by the Department of Homeland Security as a sanctuary jurisdiction “deliberately and shamefully obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration laws endangering American communities. Sanctuary cities protect dangerous criminal aliens from facing consequences and put law enforcement in peril.” This requirement to list Sanctuary communities was part of Executive Order 14287: Protecting American Communities from Criminal Aliens which was signed on April 28.
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Custer County was hardly alone in making the list as a rural community that has never passed laws to obstruct immigration law. Rural and conservative strongholds from El Paso to Kit Carson Counties all made the list as communities that were obstructing immigration efforts.

As a journalist working in rural Colorado for the past decade, the source of the mistake was immediately apparent. In 2019, most rural Colorado counties passed resolutions (statements that have no legal authority) to claim that their communities were “Second Amendment Sanctuary Counties” in protest against the Colorado Red Flag law that allowed law enforcement or families to petition a judge to temporarily remove firearms from people who were at risk of committing violence against others. At the time this use of the word “Sanctuary” was being used as a political tool to criticize communities that were calling themselves “Sanctuary” places where immigrants were safe from deportation.

Custer County passed “A Resolution of the Board of County Commissioners for Custer County Declaring said County to be Second Amendment Sanctuary County” on February 28, 2019. The town of Silver Cliff passed the same resolution a month later.

https://wetmountaintribune.com/2025/05/30/white-house-using-ai-mistakenly-lists-custer-county-as-a-sanctuary-community-for-immigrants-a-mistake-that-could-devastate-local-government-funding/