US probes release of arrested immigrant in first challenge to sanctuary cities

By Sarah N. Lynch and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it was probing the release by an upstate New York sheriff's office of an immigrant living in the U.S. illegally, in what appears to be its first use of a new policy to target state and local agencies that do not comply with President Donald Trump's directives. The department last week