Officials in Capital Region sanctuary communities are reacting to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s pause on federal funding to such jurisdictions.
Sanctuary cities are municipalities that restrict or refuse to cooperate with federal immigration law enforcement.
In 2008 the city of Albany passed a resolution welcoming immigrants. Mayor Kathy Sheehan, speaking in 2016 at what was billed as an “anti-KKK Presidency Rally,” affirmed that New York’s capital is indeed a “sanctuary city,” not only for all refugees, but for all who may feel or be displaced. This week, she defended that moniker…