{"id":103875,"date":"2017-08-29T16:27:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T22:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/denver-passes-immigrant-protections-amid-white-house-threats\/"},"modified":"2017-08-29T16:27:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T22:27:45","slug":"denver-passes-immigrant-protections-amid-white-house-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/denver-passes-immigrant-protections-amid-white-house-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver passes immigrant protections amid White House threats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Denver\u2019s City Council has approved an ordinance aimed at protecting immigrants amid White House threats to revoke federal money from so-called sanctuary cities \u2014 but the effort falls short of legal challenges to those threats by Chicago, San Francisco and other cities.<\/p>\n<p>Denver\u2019s ordinance, which passed Monday on a 10-0 vote, largely sets into law what is current practice. It\u2019s designed to reassure the city\u2019s immigrants while not formally declaring Colorado\u2019s capital a sanctuary city.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump has made it a top priority to revoke federal dollars from so-called sanctuary cities, broadly defined as places that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Trump says he believes such cities and counties are providing a haven for criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago has filed a federal lawsuit targeting new conditions for the federal aid. Lawsuits over constitutional concerns also have been filed in San Francisco, Seattle and other cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver\u2019s City Council has approved an ordinance aimed at protecting immigrants amid White House threats to revoke federal money from so-called sanctuary cities \u2014 but the effort falls short of legal challenges to those threats by Chicago, San Francisco and other cities. Denver\u2019s ordinance, which passed Monday on a 10-0 vote, largely sets into law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-103875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103875"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=103875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}