It authorizes Sheriff offices to enforce federal immigration law. Important to you all. This is probably the first thing question you had in your head. Okay, what about the funding for it? Funding was set aside $20 million for a grant program to assist local sheriffs in the operations. That's funding that's going to be available over the course of the next biennium. And if we find in the next biennium that there's more funding needs to be able to address this response situation, it's something we'll be more than happy to take up. (02:40–02:48)
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