At Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) railed against sanctuary city policy.
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00:00Police chief and says, hey, if you're going to release this migrant, who we know is here illegally,
00:05who's been accused of some crime, if you're going to release him, give us a heads up.
00:09Give us 48 hours before you're going to release him, give us a heads up.
00:12And they do that because that protects everyone.
00:15It protects law enforcement resources.
00:17It protects the public from letting a guy out.
00:20It protects law enforcement when they go to arrest this guy out on the street,
00:23if they can do it in the jail or in the local facility, much better.
00:27And frankly, it protects the illegal migrant.
00:29And how do we know all that?
00:31Because it just happened in Denver not too long ago.
00:33Denver's a sanctuary city.
00:35I send them a detainer.
00:36Well, they had this guy in custody for 310 days.
00:40I send them a detainer.
00:41The Denver, because of their sanctuary city policy, says, no, no, we're not going to give you a notice.
00:45We're going to send you this.
00:46We'll give you a notice like one hour before.
00:49And they release the guy to the streets.
00:50We actually have the form where it says stamp release to him.
00:52There's a blank.
00:53They write in the streets.
00:54And then law enforcement goes to arrest him.
00:56And guess what happens?
00:57Law enforcement officer gets hurt.
00:59Took resources, money to do that.
01:01When they could have just went to jail because they had to send more agents.
01:04And it hurt the migrant himself because they ended up tasing this guy.
01:08When they could have just kept him in the jail, ICE comes there, goes from the jail to handcuffs you to take him to wherever they're going to take him.
01:15No, no, we can't do that because we're a sanctuary city.
01:17And now it's gotten even worse.
01:19Now, if you're a sanctuary state, they come after law enforcement like Sheriff Wagner, who's trying to do the right thing.
01:25Use the resources in a proper way.
01:27Protect the migrant.
01:28Protect law enforcement.
01:29Protect the public.
01:31No, we're a sanctuary city.
01:32We're going to release them to the streets, even though they had a detainer months before.
01:37They said, just give us a heads up and we'll come down and do it the easy way.
01:41That's why that's why this sanctuary city policy, sanctuary state policy is so darn ridiculous.
01:46So I appreciate the chairman having this hearing.
01:48I appreciate our witnesses, particularly the law enforcement, who we have here on the front lines of this every single day.
01:53Thank you all for what you do.
01:54And I yield back.
01:56Gentleman yields back.
01:57I now recognize the ranking member of the full committee, Mr. Raskin, for his opening statement.
02:00Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
02:02And thank you, Ms. Jayapal.
02:03And greetings to the witnesses.