MIAMI (WSVN) - Attorney General Jeff Sessions will be paying a visit to South Florida, Wednesday.
Sessions and U.S. Immigrations and Customs Acting Director Tom Homan will be at PortMiami, where Sessions will give a speech regarding sanctuary cities.
Sessions will give a speech on what he says is a growing trend of violent crime in sanctuary cities that are not complying with enforcing immigration laws.
Sessions is expected to highlight places like Miami-Dade, which has increased cooperation and information sharing with federal immigration authorities.
His visit to South Florida comes just two days after California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department, over the administration’s plan to cut off millions of dollars in federal funding for public safety grants to jurisdictions with sanctuary cities.
“It’s hard to believe that now, the federal government would jeopardize crime fighting funds simply because it wishes to pressure local governments to do their bidding on federal immigration law,” said Becerra.
The laws in question are called Byrne JAG Grants, and the Department of Justice said jurisdictions will lose unless they reverse course and cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
“The Attorney General chose to visit Miami-Dade County to highlight the cooperation that our county government has with our federal partners,” said Miami-Dade Communications Director Michael Hernandez.
Earlier this year, Miami-Dade reversed its policy and started cooperating with federal immigration officials. “We treat all prisoners here in Miami-Dade County the same way,” said Mayor Carlos Gimenez. “We also will honor detainment requests from ICE as long as there’s a probable cause.”
General Sessions is set to speak at 3 p.m., in Port Miami, where authorities are expecting large crowds of protesters.
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