The U.S. Department of Justice has dropped its requirement that states cooperate with federal immigration enforcement efforts to be eligible for funding from a grant program designed to help crime victims, the Maine attorney general’s office announced Monday.

A coalition of Democratic attorneys general from 20 states and Washington, D.C., asked a federal judge in August to block the Justice Department from enforcing conditions that would cut funding to a state or subgrantee if it refused to honor civil immigration enforcement requests, denied U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers access to facilities or failed to give advance notice of release dates of individuals who might be wanted by ICE because of their immigration status.

The requirement would have affected nearly $1.4

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