Article snippet: Posted at 8:37 pm on July 25, 2017 by streiff Spat or not spat, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is moving ahead with the Trump administration’s agenda of ending the sanctuary city nonsense. Last week, Sessions made as trip to Philadelphia where he denounced the lawlessness of the sanctuary city movement. Today, he took it a step further. The target it a grant program called the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program. As the website says: In 2016, 1010 grants were awarded totaling $84,063,637. If you look at the list of 2016 awardees you will see a lot of familiar faces from ICE’s (temporarily suspended) sanctuary cities report. That is coming to an end. What it means is that in order to be eligible for the DOJ grant program, a jurisdiction must agree to do certain things. To that list DOJ has now added that they must obey federal law in regards to cooperating with federal immigration agents. If they won’t do that, they are simply not eligible for the grant. Ultimately, money talks and bullsh** walks. I suspect that when it becomes painful to be a “sanctuary city” that a lot of the fun will go out of it because for all their moralizing and hectoring, progressives are all about the money. Link to the full article to read more