A US judge appeared open to tossing the Trump administration’s attempt to strike down Boston’s sanctuary-city policy that limits local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
During a hearing on Boston’s motion to dismiss Wednesday, US District Judge Leo T. Sorokin’s scrutiny of the Justice Department’s lawsuit delved into whether federal law makes it mandatory or optional for localities like Boston to help transfer detained noncitizens into federal custody.
“You’re saying this, as a matter of federal law, requires every local police force in the United States, every state police officer, every sheriff department, every entity that is holding a person ...