内容摘要：TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The Trump administration sued four New Jersey cities over their so-called sanctuary city policies aimed at prohibiting police from cooperating with immigration officials, saying the local governments are standing in the way of federal enforcement.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The Trump administration sued four New Jersey cities over their so-called sanctuary city policies aimed at prohibiting police from cooperating with immigration officials, saying the local governments are standing in the way of federal enforcement.

A river that connects to the Caribbean Sea flows through Mayapo, Colombia, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)The AP spoke to several Wayuu families living near wind turbines who do not oppose the companies operating there, as they have received financial assistance and housing.

Others are not convinced.“An old saying goes that if you’ve never owned a chicken, manure looks like an egg to you,” Mercado, the Palabrero, said when asked about those in the community who accept help from the companies, which is much less than what he’d consider fair compensation.“There are many communities that have never had anything. In the midst of so much need, so much crisis, so much hunger, any little penny that they are being offered now seems like a miracle cure and the greatest wealth in the world to them,” he said.

A family of fishers, of the Wayuu Indigenous group, meet on the beach, in Manaure, Colombia, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)A family of fishers, of the Wayuu Indigenous group, meet on the beach, in Manaure, Colombia, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Companies are now carrying out studies for offshore wind farms, which is also enraging the Wayuu, especially traditional fishers, known as Apalanchii.

Lanao, of the environmental authority, says just because the project is in the sea, it does not mean the communities do not have influence.New Jersey’s attorney general adopted a

in 2018, which bars local police from cooperation with federal officials conducting immigration enforcement. The policies adopted by the four cities are similar.with a lower court that New Jersey’s statewide policy could stand, but it’s unclear how that court’s order might affect the government’s case against the four cities.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A divided North Carolina Supreme Court confirmed Friday that it was OK for a new law that shifted the power to appoint State Board of Elections members away from the Democratic governor to start being, even as the law’s constitutionality is deliberated.