There’s no guarantee the funding will be released. President Donald Trump has ordered his administration to cut off all federal money to immigration sanctuaries to the extent it legally can. That would rip billions of dollars from some of California’s largest cities, from Los Angeles to the Bay Area.

A coalition of U.S. cities and counties on Friday filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to force so-called sanctuary jurisdictions to cooperate with his immigration crackdown and mass deportations.

The City of San Francisco is leading a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its crackdown on sanctuary cities and states and its threat to cut off federal funding.