The recent update in Immigration saw US Justice Department sue California over its sanctuary city laws. The Trump administration is suing the states all over the country who have offered to protect the Immigrants — legal as well as illegal. The state of California is home to about one-quarter of the total estimated 11 million immigrant population across the United States.

The suit filed against California questions the three statues that the state has for the immigrants to protect them from the expulsion or persecution. This means that if the ruling goes in the favor of  the government, the state will have to hand over the undocumented immigrants.

The dictums which are protecting the immigrants bar any police or government official from asking the immigrants about their citizenship status. According to the administration, these dictums are deliberate efforts by the state of California to obstruct the implementation of the federal immigration law. Under the US Constitution, California cannot obstruct the government to implement the laws that the Congress has enacted.

The Governor of California Jerry Brown defied the White House and openly challenged the President and signed the legislation making whole California a “sanctuary state.” He did this to halt illegal immigration laws that can expel almost millions of people who came to the country without papers. States across the country have declared themselves sanctuaries for the immigrants — legal as well as illegal who have been prosecuted wrongly. By declaring that they would not cooperate with any federal agents seeking to round up any immigrants. Immigration and Customs Enforcement along with other federal agencies such as Customs and Border Protection believe that these policies of the sanctuary cities are letting the immigrants with criminal background go free.

This issue has affected the administration so much that the Justice Department, led by Attorney General Jeff Sessions has threatened to withdraw the funding of the cities acting as sanctuaries. The suit named Brown and state Attorney General Xavier Becerra as defendants. Both attorneys are strident defenders of undocumented immigrants. Brown went further and tweeted “At a time of unprecedented political turmoil, Jeff Sessions has come to California to further divide and polarize America.”

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