Jacob Frey: “I don't want our police officers spending time working with…”

“How do you respond to that argument that your city's stance in eliminating cooperation with ICE has made it hard, harder for federal law enforcement to safely enforce immigration laws in your city? Look, what our policy says is that I don't want our police officers spending time working with ICE on immigration enforcement. because why? That's not our primary job. You know what I want our police officers doing? I want them stopping murders from happening. I want them preventing carjackings.” (06:57–07:05)

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