Washington Attorney General Nick Brown has joined a coalition of 12 attorneys general suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), accusing the agencies of unlawfully reallocating federal security funding for political purposes.

The lawsuit comes after DHS and FEMA slashed millions in homeland security grants just four days before the end of the federal fiscal year. States that refused to divert local law enforcement resources to help enforce federal immigration law were hit hardest by the cuts, while the funds were redistributed elsewhere.

Washington lost roughly $2 million in funding, and the timeline to spend the remaining money was shortened from three years to just one year. Other states faced even steeper losses: Illinois’

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