Sanctuary

In a case involving the City of San Francisco, a federal judge has blocked a Trump administration attempt to halt funding based on that City's "sanctuary" policy. (Local police do not assist federal officers in immigration matters.)

UC campuses including UCLA have similar policies, although not officially dubbed "sanctuary." So it is likely that were a UC campus be subject to a similar attempt, it would get the same ruling.

From the San Francisco Chronicle: A federal judge issued an order... prohibiting the Trump administration from withholding billions of dollars in funding to San Francisco and other local governments with sanctuary policies that bar their law enforcement officers from cooperating with federal immigration agents. U.S. District Judge William Orrick III of San Francisco issued a similar ruling in 2017, upheld on appeal, after President Donald Trump ordered federal officials to withhold funds from San Francisco and the state of California because of their sanctuary policies. He said during a Wednesday hearing that he was “inclined” to follow the same course in the current lawsuit by 16 cities and counties. In Thursday’s order, he wrote, “here we are again” and noted that the “language and purpose” of the current executive order mirrors the 2017 order he ruled against.

The current orders being challenged “violate the Constitution’s separation of powers principles and the Spending Clause, as explained by the Ninth Circuit in the earlier iteration of this case in 2018; they also violate the Fifth Amendment to the extent they are unconstitutionally vague and violate due process,” Orrick wrote in granting an injunction...

Full story at https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/sf-sanctuary-cities-lawsuit-20291277.php.