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Michigan sues Trump administration over required immigration legislation compliance

By Editorial Board Published May 13, 2025 3 Min Read
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Michigan sues Trump administration over required immigration legislation compliance

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Michigan Lawyer Normal Dana Nessel and 19 different attorneys basic are suing the Trump administration for making an attempt to power states to extend immigration enforcement by threatening to withhold federal funding.

The group has filed two separate lawsuits, one towards the Federal Emergency Administration Company (FEMA), the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and one other towards the Division of Transportation (DOT) and DOT Secretary Sean Duffy.

“The Trump Administration is illegally tying immigration enforcement demands to vital federal funding grants that have absolutely nothing to do with immigration,” stated Nessel in a launch despatched to six Information.

Nessel says Congress has established dozens of federal grant applications administered by FEMA and the DOT. That cash funds tasks starting from catastrophe reduction and flood mitigation to railroad, bridge and airport development.

In February, Secretary Noem directed DHS and different businesses, together with FEMA, to cease federal funding to jurisdictions that refused to help with federal immigration legislation enforcement.

In March, the DHS modified the phrases and situations placed on federal funds to require recipients to show that they assisted with imposing these legal guidelines.

Secretary Duffy issued the same letter, stating that grant recipients are required to help the federal government with immigration legislation enforcement.

DOT funds are used for freeway development, public transportation upkeep and aggressive funds for airport and railway growth.

Nessel says state grant candidates have seen the same requirement added to the phrases and situations.

Within the lawsuit towards FEMA, the attorneys basic say the immigration situation exceeds FEMA’s authority. They add that the situations are constitutional as a result of Congress appropriated the funding to assist states put together for, shield towards, reply to and recuperate from disasters.

Within the lawsuit towards the DOT, the attorneys basic say that imposing an immigration enforcement situation on all transportation funds, that are appropriated to assist crucial infrastructure tasks, is past the company’s jurisdiction.

The next states are hooked up to the lawsuit:

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Hawai’i

Illinois

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Minnestoa

Nevada

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

Oregon

Rhode Island

Washington

Wisconson

Vermont

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