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Ken Paxton: “We've already seen this [similar law] go through Arizona and…”

Featuring: Ken Paxton, Republican | Attorney General of Texas

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Ken Paxton Interview on Sanctuary Cities Bill Fox 4

Published | Video Starts at 04:13

What was your idea behind doing that and what do you think it will accomplish? So one is hopefully, speed, we want to get this resolved. We really think we're going to win, that this is constitutional. We've already seen this [similar law] go through Arizona and all the way up to the Supreme Court, and it was held to be lawful. And so one is speed. Two is we didn't want to be dealing with lawsuits all over the state. (04:13–04:18)

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