Judge Nap: Law Is on Rahm Emanuel’s Side on Sanctuary City Funding

‘The money that Jeff Sessions is trying to stop from coming is Obama Administration money already committed to Chicago’

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NAPOLITANO: "I think that's a great response on the part of Jeff Sessions, one that his boss, currently on a working vacation in Bedminster, is happy to hear and was unhappy not to have heard before this. But, unfortunately, the law is on Rahm Emanuel's side, the mayor of Chicago. Because the money that Jeff Sessions is trying to stop from coming is Obama Administration money already committed to Chicago. So here is how it works. The federal government gives money to the states and locals and it attaches strings: 'You want this money, you have to do this. If you want us to repave Route 80 in New Jersey, lower the speed limit to 55 miles per hour.' A classic and historic example. If they accept the money with the strings, they have to comply with the strings. There were no strings about complying with immigration enforcement in the Obama budget." 

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