Updates | The Week of April 17, 2017

Texas state legislators are cracking down on immigration in bills threatening state funding for localities that fail to cooperate with federal immigration officers, notes Ann Beeson (NYT).

Attorney General Sessions’ argument that sanctuary cities violate federal law is disingenuous and his motives purely political, argues Christopher Lasch (Jurist).

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