Washington DC - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently removed a list of "sanctuary jurisdictions" from its website after backlash from a prominent sheriffs' association.

According to The Guardian, the department published a list of states, cities, and counties on their website last Thursday that they alleged enforced policies that stood to defy President Donald Trump and DHS's aggressive deportation efforts.

In a response, Kieran Donahue, president of the National Sheriffs' Association, which represents over 3,000 elected sheriffs across the country and generally supports immigration policy enforcement, argued the list "lacks transparency and accountability," and "violated the core principles of trust, cooperation, and partnership with fellow law enforcement."

The list was met with criticism from a number of cities and counties that were included despite claiming they had no such policies.

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San Diego city attorney Heather Ferbert said her city has never adopted a sanctuary policy and suggested the creation of the list was politically motivated, arguing that Trump may be using it as "additional threats and fear tactics to threaten federal funding that the city relies on."

By Sunday, the list appeared to have been taken down from the site and was replaced with a "Page not found" error message.

Back in April, Trump signed an executive order instructing his administration to compile the list of sanctuary jurisdictions, arguing their noncompliance amounted to "a lawless insurrection."

In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem dodged a question about the page being removed, but did acknowledge that some cities "have pushed back."

"They think because they don't have one law or another on the books that they don't qualify, but they do qualify," Noem argued. "They are giving sanctuary to criminals."