One of the greatest obstacles to President Donald Trump’s promised deportation programs has been the issue of “sanctuary” jurisdictions: states, counties, and cities that refuse to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and typically bar police from investigating immigration status. Many “sanctuary” jurisdictions have made headlines over the last year, as riots broke out in Los Angeles last summer and left-wing activists targeted ICE operations in Minneapolis last month, resulting in two fatal altercations. Despite the best efforts of the Trump administration, “sanctuary” jurisdictions aren’t showing signs of slowing down. Here are the latest updates.

Minneapolis

Border Czar Tom Homan has pledged to wind down ICE operations in embattled Minneapolis, following assurances from state and local officials that ICE would be allowed to enter jails and prisons to make arrests and that state and local law enforcement would provide crowd control, allowing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to recall Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Border Patrol (USBP) agents from the city. However, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) has rejected claims that he agreed to a “deal” with Homan and ICE.

“Our position has remained the same throughout, and I’ve been saying this for months, if not years, which is this: we will work with the federal government to catch murderers and rapists and people that are causing danger in our city,” Frey said in a Thursday night interview. He reported that Minneapolis authorities will work with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to “put people like that behind bars,” but pledged that local officials “will not, however, cooperate on enforcing federal immigration policy. Period. That was our position then. That is our position now.” The mayor touted three “productive” meetings he had with Homan, saying, “Obviously, there’s progress in that. They are leaving right now. But as far as some deal that was struck to get them out, the answer is no.”

The comments contradict what Homan has stated in press briefings regarding concessions that Frey, Governor Tim Walz (D), and Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) have made. “As a result of our efforts here, Minnesota is now less of a sanctuary state for criminals, and we are proud of the public safety threats we have removed, the criminal aliens out of the state,” Homan said Thursday morning. He explained that he had been deployed to Minneapolis “to work with state and local officials to deescalate the intense, volatile reactions and conflicts that have unfolded on the streets here between federal law enforcement and unlawful agitators.”

According to Homan, over 200 of those agitators have been arrested, with most facing federal prosecution. He stressed again the need for state and local law enforcement officers to do their jobs in order to mitigate violence. “As I’ve said many times, we are not asking local law enforcement to act as immigration officers. I don’t want them to be immigration officers — we’re the immigration officers. We just want them to be cops,” he said. “We’re asking law enforcement to coordinate with other law enforcement to help keep public safety risk out of the communities.”

Frey further accused DHS of having “stripped away” the “constitutional rights” of “hundreds, if not thousands” of Minneapolis residents. “Accountability needs to come through the justice system that we have in place. We have preemptive lawsuits that have been filed, responsive lawsuits that have been filed, lawsuits that have been filed” against the Trump administration and DHS, the mayor shared. “Yes, of course, we want to see accountability in our city for the people who have been harmed,” he continued. “And importantly, we don’t want Minneapolis just to be a stop along the route to the next location that has this extraordinary invasion that comes into their city and damages the economy, hurts the morale, and the public welfare.”

New Jersey

Newly-minted Garden State Governor Mikie Sherrill (D) unveiled executive actions this week aimed at preventing ICE from operating in New Jersey. Sherrill signed executive orders barring ICE from launching any operations from state property, including parks and roadways, without a warrant signed by a judge, starting an ICE-tracking portal, which went live Wednesday, and creating a “know your rights” website, advising illegal immigrants to ask ICE agents for their badge and identification and avoid speaking to ICE agents without a lawyer present.

“We are taking these three steps to protect people’s rights and to keep them safe, steps that were developed in coordination with the community and with law enforcement,” Sherrill said in a Wednesday press conference. She boasted that ICE would not be able to use state property for “staging areas, no processing locations, no operating bases, no federal civil immigration actions run from any state grounds.” While she admitted that ICE agents could enter any public space and can even make arrests there, she continued, “But they can’t gather on state land for operations, and they can’t send agents looking for people in non-public areas like state offices, child care centers, state college dorms, or senior homes without a warrant signed by a judge.”

The governor also touted the new ICE-tracking portal, technically launched under the Office of the Attorney General. She encouraged New Jersey residents to record and upload videos of ICE interactions in order to “hold them accountable to track their actions, collect that information, and use it to spot patterns that can inform our response as a state, including in court.” Sherrill cast ICE operations as highly secretive and urged New Jersey residents to keep a “safe distance” while recording.

The “know your rights” website, Sherrill announced, will feature 22 different languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Spanish, and others. “If you need a lawyer, you can find one there,” she said. The website also contains guides for claiming asylum and avoiding expedited removal processes.

“For months, we have seen dozens, even hundreds of videos of Donald Trump’s ICE agents abusing their power, smashing cars, tear-gassing families, gunning down American citizens, and violating our most basic rights. Trump has turned law enforcement agencies into militias loyal to him, not our constitution,” Sherrill alleged. “We see agents hiding behind masks, no insignias, constantly changing license plates, breaking the core principles of what good policing needs to be to keep people safe,” she added, claiming that she knew of DHS employees who quit when they were forced “to take a loyalty oath to Donald Trump.” Touting her time in the U.S. Navy, the governor said, “I have seen what unaccountable militias look like and the fear and the danger that they spread. I won’t let that happen in New Jersey.”

Attorney General Jennifer Davenport (D) also spoke at the press conference, boasting of her immigrant heritage. “I know that our immigrant communities are our strength. Immigrants are the backbone of our economy, our communities, our schools, and so much more. But the current administration in Washington does not care,” Davenport claimed. “The actions Governor Sherrill is announcing today are just the latest step we have taken here in New Jersey to lead the fight to protect our immigrant communities from unlawful attacks out of Washington.”

Los Angeles

Last year saw riots break out against immigration enforcement operations in the City of Angels, prompting the president to federalize and deploy the National Guard to quell the violence. The city’s “sanctuary” efforts, however, are still ongoing. According to KTLA, the Highland Park Community Support organization is launching a crowdfunding initiative to purchase a set of air raid sirens to be used to warn residents of ICE activities in the neighborhood. “We’d like to ultimately have this along all the different streets so they can take shelter,” Highland Park Community Support founder Amanda Alcalde told the local outlet. “I’ve seen a lot of fear in people’s eyes. I don’t see a lot of our ethnic minorities out in the day-to-day. It’s big change. It feels dystopian in a way.”

According to Fox News, Highland Park Community Support was “inspired” by anti-ICE agitators in Minneapolis, who used whistles to alert others when ICE, CBP, or USBP agents were spotted.

DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin derided the move as “quite literally insane,” noting that the air raid sirens the group is trying to purchase were used to warn of Nazi air raids in World War II. “The residents of Highland Park want to buy an air raid siren — the same device that was used in London when German planes flew over — to alert the community about ICE,” she told Fox News. “Seems like a public nuisance!”