DOJ Abandons Attempt to Restrict Crime Survivor Programs After Lawsuit, Maine AG Says

DOJ drops Trump-era rule linking crime victim funds to immigration enforcement, Wisconsin AG says

U.S. DOJ is abandoning plans requiring states cooperate with federal immigration enforcement if they want funding that helps crime victims, Kaul said.

DOJ abandons attempt to restrict crime survivor programs after lawsuit, Maine AG says

Attorney General Aaron Frey announced last week that Maine was joining a multistate legal challenge to the Trump administration's effort to bar undocumented immigrants from using the support systems.

Feds drop ICE clause from crime victim grants after lawsuit by Maine and 20 states

The U.S. Department of Justice has dropped its requirement that states cooperate with federal immigration enforcement efforts to be eligible for funding from a grant program designed to help crime victims, the Maine attorney general’s office announced Monday. A coalition of Democratic attorneys general from 20 states and Washington, D.C., asked a federal judge in August to block the Justice Department from enforcing conditions that would cut fun…