...Advocates say the timeline of events surrounding sanctuary leaders’ ongoing litigation against ICE illustrates the agency’s retaliatory use of fines. Austin Sanctuary Network, Free Migration Project, Grassroots Leadership, and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) are organizations representing sanctuary leaders, and CCR held a press conference Feb. 26 of this year announcing the litigation. The very next day, letters from ICE went out to sanctuary leaders informing them of fines. ...

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