{"id":374372,"date":"2026-10-16T00:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T00:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374372\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T00:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T00:54:13","slug":"us-judge-tosses-trump-administration-lawsuit-over-new-york-city-sanctuary-laws-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374372\/","title":{"rendered":"US judge tosses Trump administration lawsuit over New York City &#8216;sanctuary&#8217; laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW YORK, Oct 15 (Reuters) &#8211; A federal judge on Thursday threw out a Trump administration \u200clawsuit that sought to block New York \u200cCity laws limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, finding the government \u200bdid not have a valid basis to sue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 US District Judge Ramon Reyes in Brooklyn said President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration could not challenge a city law \u200cbarring police from \u2060detaining immigrants at the request of federal authorities because that practice is already prohibited \u2060by state law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 The judge also said city laws restricting local authorities from sharing release dates, whereabouts \u200bor other \u200bcustody information about immigrants \u200bwere valid because federal \u200claw does not require state and local governments to share that information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 Reyes rejected the administration&#8217;s arguments that federal law superseded the challenged New York City laws, finding the federal government could not force \u200clocal governments to assist with \u200bimmigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 The administration filed \u200bthe lawsuit in \u200bNew York federal court in July \u200c2025 as part of its campaign \u200bagainst so-called sanctuary \u200bcity policies, which aim to shield immigrants from Trump&#8217;s mass deportation campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 The Justice Department \u200bdid not immediately \u200crespond to a request for comment on \u200bthe ruling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Jack Queen in New York; \u200bEditing by Matthew Lewis)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK, Oct 15 (Reuters) &#8211; A federal judge on Thursday threw out a Trump administration \u200clawsuit that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-374372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}