The Trump administration is putting over 500 “sanctuary jurisdictions” on notice that they may be obstructing immigration enforcement.

The move is part of the Trump admin's push to pressure communities it believes are standing in the way of its deportation agenda.

A Philadelphia that proudly stood among the strongest of sanctuary cities has formally discarded the name. It’s now a “welcoming city.” That’s according to Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s top attorney, who confirmed what has been a slow but dramatic shift in labeling as the Trump administration bears down on the city.

The Trump administration placed a dozen Massachusetts cities and others across the country on its list of "sanctuary jurisdictions," accusing them of violating federal law.

Cambridge and Boston are among the hundreds of sanctuary cities nationwide that the Department of Homeland Security accused of defying federal law on a list designed to expose localities that the Trump administration says are obstructing its immigration crackdown.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a list of Hudson Valley and Capital Region counties and cities it said were defying immigration rules.

Maryland could lose billions in federal funding after being declared a self-identifying “Sanctuary State Jurisdiction” by the Trump administration.

But those criteria don’t explain why some counties that follow the same state laws and seemingly operate their jails and sheriff’s offices the same way as their neighbors, like Douglas County, somehow avoided inclusion while El Paso was branded as a sanctuary.