Chapter 6 State Legislatures

Since California is mainly a democratic state, they use their power to preserve state and local values in the face of conflicting Federal policies in many ways. Recently while researching I've noticed an article that stated that San Francisco is suing President Trump over executive order targeting sanctuary cities. San Francisco is suing the Trump administration because they are violating the states rights in the U.S Constitution. The reason why the city is suing is because the Trump administration started issuing orders to put counties and cities on notice that they will loss federal funding if they do not start cooperating with immigration officials/agents. California as a state alone is very liberal and very protective over immigrants that are in this state illegally and if they do not comply, they would lose federal funding. Federal funding usually covers health care, programs for the poor, etc. California knows that this is avery wrong thing and it violates the rights that the city has so they are exercising their power to protect the state/local values by suing the administration.

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