CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) Charlottesville City Manager Sam Sanders was happy to see the Department of Homeland Security’s error-filled list of sanctuary jurisdictions – one that included both Charlottesville and Albemarle County – retracted.

But Sanders doesn’t expect this will be the last the city hears from DHS regarding its policies and handling of immigrants in the community.

“I will welcome the opportunity to not be on the list,” Sanders told Cville Right Now on Wednesday. “I am not surprised that we are on it and I expect it to come back and we will probably still be on it.”

In April, President Donald Trump signed an executive order instructing DHS to assemble the list and last week, on May 29, in an attempt to ramp up pressure on communities the Trump administration believes are obstructing his mass deportation agenda, the department released the list. Over 500 locations nationwide and 33 in Virginia, including Albemarle and Augusta counties and the City of Charlottesville locally, were named.

By Sunday, the DHS had pulled the list off its website.

Sanders said that, while the list is likely to return, the City will work to get its name taken off.

“Our goal will be to figure out, is there a way to get off of it?”

Sanders said. “I am concerned about the impact of being on the list such as that.”

Earlier in the day Wednesday, Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, in their own, separate weekly media availabilities, addressed the DHS list.

Like Sanders, Kaine expressed concern that the list would be back.

“The DHS, after they were roundly criticized for their errors, they pulled it off their website,” Kaine said. “But when DHS Secretary

(Kristi) Noem was asked about this on Sunday, she said, ‘Just because a jurisdiction hasn’t passed the sanctuary cities resolution, we know many of them are still doing things wrong.’ Well, like, give us some examples. Well, that she couldn’t do.”

Warner noted some specific Virginia-based errors on the list, including listing Martinsville County, which does not exist.

“They put out this absurd list last week that was full of mistakes,”

Warner said. “There was community after community that was somehow viewed as a sanctuary community. I know police departments and sheriff’s departments across Virginia were flipping out because they have worked – in legal ways – with ICE and with the immigration enforcement. And to somehow get put on this list, and this list is so sloppily put together, I don’t know if it was generated by a bad AI tool or somebody who couldn’t spell.”