Five Cities in Massachusetts, including Boston, are among the jurisdictions listed as uncooperative in a new public list released by the federal immigration officials on Monday.

The first weekly detainer report which is issued by the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Custom Enforcement agency includes 96 towns, cities, counties, and prisons that have enacted policies limiting cooperation with federal efforts to detain the undocumented immigrants.

Amherst, Cambridge, Northampton, and Somerville are the other four Massachusetts towns listed by the federal immigration officials.

The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that many local officials, including in Rhode Island, said the list is an apparent attempt to shame sanctuary cities and contains wrong or misleading information about their policies. As WGBH notes that, the list also does not include several Massachusetts cities which have declared themselves sanctuary cities.

It is still unclear whether there are any immediate policy implications of being included on the federal list. President Donald Trump has pledged to defund the sanctuary cities.

According to the ICE, a “detainer” is a request made by the agency to local authorities to maintain custody of the detained undocumented immigrant for up to 48 hours to allow DHS to assume custody for removal purposes.

In the Monday’s report, ICE officials said that they issued 3,083 detainers between January 28 and February 3. As per the agency, 206 detainers were declined.

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The agency said that, none of the declined detainers came from New England and also the list on which the five Massachusetts towns were included was based upon publicly released information, news reports, or information given to the ICE personnel in field.

The list also provides the criteria for which the cities said they would honor the detainer. As the local officials have said, sanctuary cities generally do comply with federal agencies on the serious criminal cases.

“Somerville does not harbor criminals and we are in regular communication with, and cooperate, in the interest of public safety, with our federal agencies,” the Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone said in January, noting that the city’s crime rate had in fact dropped 50 percent since it enacted the sanctuary policy in 1987.

As per Monday’s report, Somerville does honor the ICE detainers if government provides a criminal warrant or there is a legitimate law enforcement purpose beyond the immigration status for keeping a suspect in custody longer than normal.

According to the report, Boston also will not honor the detainer without a criminal warrant, in accordance with the city’s 2014 Trust Act. Cambridge and also Northampton maintain similar criteria. Amherst will not honor the immigration detainer requests to the extent permissible by law, the ICE report said.

Supporters of the sanctuary cities said that the policy improves residents relations with police and point to research both the documented and undocumented immigrants.

Mrudula Duddempudi.