At a press briefing, Karoline Leavitt was asked about President Trump's executive order targeting sanctuary cities.
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00:00Question. Regarding the executive order on sanctuary cities, is the administration
00:05planning to pursue any more investigations or prosecutions like was done against the judge in
00:10Wisconsin against local officials? Well, we'd have to defer you to the Department of Justice,
00:16obviously, for specific prosecutions or cases against individuals. But as I said in my remarks,
00:22the executive order the president will sign later this afternoon does direct the attorney general
00:26and also Kristi Noem, our great secretary of Homeland Security, to provide a list of sanctuary
00:32cities in which local officials are not complying with this federal order and are not complying with
00:39federal immigration laws. It's quite simple. Obey the law, respect the law, and don't obstruct
00:45federal immigration officials and law enforcement officials when they are simply trying to remove
00:50public safety threats from our nation's communities. The American public don't want illegal alien
00:56criminals in their communities. They made that quite clear on November 5th. And this administration
01:00is determined to enforce our nation's immigration laws. And we're happy to provide the text of that
01:05executive order. And as I said, the president will be signing it later this afternoon. Sure.