Over the past three months, the Trump administration has filed lawsuits against Los Angeles, Illinois, Colorado, New York state, New York City, and other places for the express purpose of forcing them to abolish their "sanctuary city" policies and start aiding the feds in rounding up undocumented immigrants and enforcing federal immigration laws.

Rochester found itself under a federal microscope after police were publicly reprimanded for helping immigration agents during a traffic stop.

After a federal judge threw out the Trump Administration's lawsuit against sanctuary cities in Illinois, the government looks towards New York