The Trump administration is approaching a crossroads in the battle over sanctuary cities with a decision due next month on where to build a new FBI headquarters.
The two finalists: Prince George’s County in Maryland, where local officials resist helping deport illegal immigrants, and Fairfax County in Virginia, where police make a point to cooperate.
Taking an aggressive stance against illegal immigration, President Trump signed an executive order his first week in office that promised to cut off federal funds to local governments that willfully violate federal law to shield aliens from removal from the U.S.
Administration officials, however, won’t say whether that edict applies to construction projects like the $2.5 billion FBI complex that’s to be built in the Washington suburbs.
But fans of Mr. Trump’s tough talk on illegal immigration say they’d be dismayed if his administration awarded such a plum federal project to a county that refuses to cooperate with the federal government.
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