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Eric Schmitt: “Sanctuary jurisdictions refuse. They withhold the…”

Featuring: Eric Schmitt, Republican | U.S. Senate, Missouri

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Schmitt Chairs Senate Judiciary Hearing Highlighting Painful Consequences of Sanctuary City Policies

Published | Video Starts at 02:06

That is basic cooperation. It's the kind of coordination that happens every single day between state, local, and federal law enforcement in every other context. And yet, when the subject is immigration, Sanctuary jurisdictions refuse. They withhold the information, they block the transfer, they release the alien, and then they send the alien back into the community. That is a choice, a very deliberate choice. And it's a choice that gets people hurt. Sometimes it gets people killed. The defenders of these policies always want to keep this debate at a level of theory. (02:06–02:16)

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Asserts that sanctuary jurisdictions refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

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