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Crack down on sanctuary cities? >> we have been under this watch since the obama administration. about six months ago they published a report stating that there was a resolution that we had passed down here in miami-dade that asked for reimbursement for the federal government whenever they had a detention request and they didn't document that they were going to reimburse us then we would hold our prisoners as long as we would normally hold them and then release them. that was a policy -- we were always honoring detention requests from the federal government until 2014. it was all due to the fa...

Issue, and it really was a no-brainard. it's a $52,000 an issue here for miami-dade. so we will now go back to our 2014 policy that we will honor the detention request, regardless of the fact that the government says that they will pay for. >> meghan: president trump reacting to the decision on twitter, writing "miami-dade mayor drops sanctuary policy, right decision, strong." meantime, the president reportedly ordering the debarment of homeland scaredy to release a list of illegal immigrants released back into the communities under sanctuary policies in an attempt to crackdown. going to go to...

>> reporter: why the alleged killer was even in the u.s. to fire the fatal round is now the subject of a fierce debate. sanchez is an undocumented immigrant and is a seven-time convicted felon who had been deported to his native mexico five times. it would have been six, but the san francisco sheriff's department, which had been holding him on a drug charge let him go after charges were dropped. why? san francisco is what's called a sanctuary city. it doesn't help federal authorities catch undocumented immigrants. about 300 municipalities have the designation around the country, but san franci...

The destination around country but san francisco takes a hard line approach. in the case of sanchez it released him even though the feds had issued a detention request or detainer to pick him up. >> the detainer is not a legal instrument. >> reporter: the sheriff defending the policy. >> i firmly believe it makes us safer. for a law enforcement perspective, we want to build trust with that population. and our sanctionuary city allows us to do that. >> reporter: tell that to donald trump who says that the tragic shooting is another example of why we must secure our border immediately. sanchez s...