Sec. Kristi Noem held a press briefing on Wednesday in Illinois where she was asked about sanctuary policies.
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00:00Yes, there's no statistical evidence to support it. What do you mean?
00:19Well, that's simply not true. And all you have to do is to look at this binder full of people
00:30that are right here in these neighborhoods in this state that are still at large perpetuating
00:36criminal activity against the citizens that live here. All of these people could be brought
00:40to justice if Governor Pritzker would change the state laws and allow law enforcement to
00:45participate with our investigators to make sure criminals are brought to justice.
00:53We have been reaching out to them and weren't able to get a response yet, but we have been
00:58reaching out to them.
00:59Were you aware that Emma Schafer's family is across town at the protest against disappearance?
01:05No, I wasn't aware of that. Is that her immediate family?
01:07Yes.
01:08Yes.
01:09Thank you. Did you have a question?
01:10Well, it's not a last minute change. That law was passed 20 years ago. Joe Biden chose
01:25to have it implemented on May 7th, which is today. And so we are implementing the federal
01:30law and it's a valid ID that we'll be able to go forward and to make sure that we know
01:35who's traveling on our federal transportation system. So people will be able to prove their
01:40legal status, their legal status, who they are, and that they are supposed to be here.
01:44Yes.
01:45Then he should participate with us. He should change the state law that allows his local law
01:57enforcement to participate with us to make sure that we can share that information to bring
02:01people to justice.
02:02As far as like, I don't know if you have statistics or even estimates, out of the number of people
02:08who are in this country, out of those individuals, how many of the criminal records do they have?
02:14Oh, it's, we believe in the millions of criminal records. It'll be different kinds of charges
02:19and different kinds of, based on, it could be theft, petty crime, but it could be murder,
02:24rape, but many, many of them that we need to bring. Yes.
02:31I can't confirm anything. Thank you. Thank you guys.