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Flashback: Dem mayors didn’t protest Obama’s attack on ‘sanctuary cities’

By Paul Bedard

Published January 26, 2017 11:37pm ET

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Flashback: Dem mayors didn’t protest Obama’s attack on ‘sanctuary cities’ — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks during a press conference where sanctuary cities, which don't arrest or detain immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, and Chicago violence, two issues raised by President Donald Trump, were discussed on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Matt Marton) | Matt Marton

Democratic mayors and local officials assailing President Trump’s threat to cut off funding so-called “sanctuary cities” were silent when former President Obama did the same thing less than a year ago.

In July, Obama’s Justice Department, pushed by House Republicans, notified sanctuaries that they would lose some federal funding if they continued to block federal immigration authorities from seizing illegals jailed for crimes.

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