Seattle spends roughly $6.5 million a year on complementary resources for illegal immigrants, even as the administration of President Donald Trump is taking major steps to reshape immigration policy and practice — with an emphasis on enforcement of federal law.

Seattle and King County joined the lawsuit in February, with City Attorney Ann Davison calling President Donald Trump’s orders “federal overreach.”

The Trump administration has been blocked from trying to "withhold, freeze, or condition" federal funds from places that have been declared "sanctuary jurisdictions," a federal judge ruled Thursday. The post ‘Here we are again’: Trump blocked from enforcing ‘sanctuary jurisdiction’ cuts by federal judge who has seen this move before first appeared on Law & Crime.