Yet thousands have been turned loose on the streets. At least 300 cities in America have established sanctuary policies
that they turn them loose. Some of the cities have passed policies that
refuse to allow their law enforcement to even gather information or
accept information on illegal aliens that they encounter. So, for example, this is how bad it is even in a place like Iowa. One
of my staff people who was involved in a car accident that was caused
by an illegal alien who had no license and had no insurance but he did
have an illegal job in the town where he caused the accident crashed
into my staff and wrecked my staff's car. So when I got the phone call on that, I turned to my then-chief of
staff who is a lights-outs, University of Chicago School of Law lawyer. I said: I want you to go to this town and stay there until you can get
this resolved. And I want to find out: What can we get accomplished to
enforce the law? This was our opportunity to learn if a Member of Congress' staff can
be run into by an illegal alien without a driver's license and without
insurance with an illegal job in town and owning a car, and I have a
topnotch lawyer chief of staff to go up there and communicate with law
enforcement to try to bring the law enforcement in place so we could at
least deport the guy. After 3 or 4 days up there and a number of phone calls from me down
here, I finally got the message back that finally convinced me we
couldn't crack through the code of local law enforcement to be able to
deport the individual who was clearly illegal. He was unlawfully
working--no driver's license and no insurance. The practice of simply staying out of immigration law because they
were local law enforcement and didn't want to touch it was so ingrained
that we could not move the bubble off the center. Finally, I said: Okay, we have got other people to take care of. We
are not going to get this solved, so let's turn our focus back to other
things.
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