The Spokesman-Review Newspaper
The Spokesman-Review Newspaper The Spokesman-Review
Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883
Current Temperature
35°F
Current Conditions
Clear sky
View complete weather report
Subscribe now

Sessions to praise Miami for ending sanctuary policy

Mayor of Miami Dade County Carlos Gimenez speaks to the media and invited guests at the Miami Worldcenter Paramount groundbreaking at Paramount Miami World Center on Thursday, March 3, 2016. (Marc Serota / Associated Press)

MIAMI – Attorney General Jeff Sessions is visiting Miami to both praise its policy of cooperation with immigration authorities and to blast other cities that have not followed suit.

Sessions will highlight Miami Dade County at a Wednesday visit with Mayor Carlos Gimenez, who earlier this year ordered county officials to follow requests to hold people in jail for extra time so immigration authorities can arrest them. Gimenez reversed Miami-Dade’s sanctuary policy so it wouldn’t risk losing federal funding.

County spokesman Michael Hernandez says the mayor will tell Sessions, however, that he supports delaying the deportation of young immigrants brought into the country illegally as children.

Earlier Wednesday, Gimenez joined other Republican politicians in rejecting President Donald Trump’s Tuesday declaration that both white supremacists and those protesting them were to blame for deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.