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Glenn Grothman: “If I walk into a Wisconsin jail and ask the sheriff how many…”

Featuring: Glenn Grothman, Republican | U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin, District 6

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… abiding than the native born here, the reason they can make that statement is nobody keeps track of the number of crimes who are committed by people here illegally, right? If I walk into a Wisconsin jail and ask the sheriff how many of these people are illegal immigrants, he has no clue. We've got a federal prison in Wisconsin and I've toured the federal prison and I ask the warden of the federal prison, how many of these people here in this prison are people who are illegally? (05:36–05:44)

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Asserts that Wisconsin jails do not track the number of illegal immigrants.

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