A judge prevents Trump from reducing 34 counties’ and cities’ funding due to “sanctuary” laws.

Due to laws that restrict collaboration with federal immigration efforts, a judge said late Friday that the Trump administration could not refuse funds to Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, and thirty other cities and counties.

A preliminary injunction prohibiting the administration from halting or restricting the use of federal monies for so-called “sanctuary” areas was extended by US District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco. San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, and over a dozen additional cities and counties were shielded by his previous order.

The White House did not immediately respond to an email sent late Friday. Orrick stated in his decision that the administration had only argued that the initial injunction was incorrect and had not objected to a prolonged injunction. The initial order is being appealed.

Orrick also prevented two specific grant programs from being subject to immigration-related restrictions by the government.

In an effort to fulfill President Donald Trump‘s campaign pledge to forcibly remove millions of people from the nation, the Trump administration has increased pressure on sanctuary areas.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem are instructed by one of Trump’s executive orders to prevent federal funds from going to sanctuary jurisdictions. Payments to state and local governments must not “abet so-called’sanctuary’ policies that seek to shield illegal aliens from deportation,” according to another directive that mandates all federal agencies to make adjustments.

The counties and cities who filed the lawsuit claimed that billions of dollars were at stake.

The executive orders and the “executive actions that have parroted them” are an unconstitutional “coercive threat,” according to Orrick, who was nominated by President Barack Obama.

The Department of Homeland Security said in May that it will formally notify all 500 or more “sanctuary jurisdictions” that the agency had determined they were noncompliant. Additionally, it stated that if it thought they were in breach of any federal criminal statutes, it would notify them.

After critics pointed out that the list featured communities that had actively backed the administration’s strict immigration policies, the government later took it down from its website.

Due to their sanctuary policy, the Justice Department has also filed lawsuits against Los Angeles, New York, and other communities.

Although the terms “sanctuary cities” are not strictly defined, they often refer to locations that restrict collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. While ICE enforces immigration laws across the country, it also looks to state and local agencies for assistance in identifying and holding federal personnel who are wanted for deportation.