The city and county of San Diego have filed a lawsuit with more than two dozen local governments, mostly in California, challenging the Trump administration.
The suit, the latest in a series of actions filed by state and municipal agencies, accuses the White House of attempting to place unlawful conditions on emergency and disaster preparedness funds.
Filed in federal court in Northern California, the suit alleges that the federal government has threatened to withhold more than $350 million in Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency grants unless municipalities assist in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts.
The city, county and other agencies also allege that President Donald Trump’s administration is linking abandoning public diver