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Phil Weiser: “There are rules about when the military is able to engage in…”

Featuring: Phil Weiser, Democratic | Attorney General of Colorado

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Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser Discusses Legal Battle Over Birthright Citizenship and Immigration Policies

Published | Video Starts at 04:37

Is Colorado prepared to stand up to Donald Trump if he attempts to put military troops into Colorado or do some other sort of violent means of kicking indoors and sweeping for undocumented immigrants in the state? Absolutely. There are rules about when the military is able to engage in any form of domestic enforcement, and those rules require there to be some type of national emergency. That's not the case here. We are fine in Colorado. We don't need or want the military coming in here to do immigration enforcement. (04:37–04:50)

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Asserts that military involvement in domestic enforcement requires a national emergency.

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