OREGON CITY Ore. (KPTV) - Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield was in Oregon City on Monday to announce that the state had joined a new lawsuit against the Trump administration.

The administration has threatened to withhold funding to services that support sexual and domestic violence survivors, unless sanctuary states comply with immigration enforcement.

Funds from the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) were already reduced earlier this year, now they may be lost entirely.

“I don’t even know where to start,” said Brandy Selover, Executive Director of the Sexual Assault Resource Center (SARC), which has advocated for more than 2,500 survivors a year since 1977 - until last week.

“I had to make a very difficult decision to do an emergency pause on all of our services,” Selover said.

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