We've been doing this for years. State police, locally, we will help any agent, any level of federal government help remove people who are criminals that have committed serious crimes. But The act of crossing the border is a civil offense. And I don't want our police officers and our sheriff's offices being distracted with this. And guess what? Most of them don't want that either. (35:37–35:40)
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Asserts that crossing the border is classified as a civil offense.
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