US v. State of Colorado, City of Denver

February 19, 2025, Executive Order 14218 Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders: This order instructs the executive departments or agencies to ensure that federal funding does not go to state and localities with sanctuary policies.
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April 28, 2025, Executive Order 14287 Protecting American Communities from Criminal Aliens: This order states (falsely) that jurisdictions with sanctuary policies are supporting “lawless insurrection.” This order instructs the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to publish a list of sanctuary jurisdictions.

DHS did publish this list on May 29, 2025 and they pulled it down off the website 3 days later due to public criticism.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) published a list on August 5, 2025 and stated that jurisdictions can take steps to be taken off the list. Many jurisdictions have rejected these threats and publicly refused to change their policies in response to the threats from the DOJ. 

Note that this order basically repackages the same funding threats as the previous executive orders. A federal judge noted that after issuing a block against parts of the previous executive orders, the administration tried to issue this new order to circumvent the federal court’s order. See City and County of San Francisco v. Donald J. Trump (in the next section).