As the Trump administration tries to aggressively increase its number of immigration arrests, “sanctuary cities” are a top target.

San Francisco leaders reaffirmed its status as a sanctuary city on Tuesday as the Trump administration vows to make good on campaign promises for increased immigration enforcement.

One legal expert told 13 ON YOUR SIDE the phrase "sanctuary city" on its own has no legal meaning. But, he explained, there is a typical understanding of it.

Texas has banned sanctuary cities since 2018, and Mayor Ron Nirenberg says San Antonio cooperates with federal immigration authorities to deport criminals.

Congressional leaders are calling upon Denver's mayor to testify at an oversight hearing for the city's alleged refusal to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement and U.S. immigration law.

The Trump administration is now criminally investigating sanctuary jurisdictions and will take legal action against any city or state that

Days after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced it had begun “enhanced targeted operations” in the Chicago area, Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin said that the city’s police department will not be enforcing federal immigration laws,

The Trump administration’s mass-deportation offensive expanded into Los Angeles Saturday with pre-dawn roundups, part of a West Coast operation expected to run seven days a week, sources told The

Former state Senate President Steve Sweeney shocked many Democrats earlier this week when he said he would repeal New Jersey’s “sanctuary state” status if

The New Hampshire Senate passed a bill Thursday that would ban “sanctuary city” policies in which communities bar local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities, part of a Republican push to tighten immigration laws in the state.

On Monday, Mayor Brandon Johnson received a letter from Washington, D.C., that states, in summary, that Chicago and other cities like it — notably Denver, New York and Boston, all of which hold sanctuary city status like Chicago — are being investigated by the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.