WASHINGTON | Aurora was on and is now apparently off a Trump administration list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” and a local city lawmaker said on a social media post she intervened to make it happen.
“I understand that Aurora was originally listed as a sanctuary city,” Jurinsky said in a social media post Friday morning. “The Department of Homeland Security has made an update and Aurora has been removed from the list. I appreciate the communication and help I received in making this happen.”
Jurinsky did not immediately return requests for comment.
City officials repeated past statements that Aurora lawmakers have passed resolutions affirming that the city refutes the label of being a “sanctuary city.”
“The Aurora City Council affirmed that in a vote in 2017 and then again in February 2