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'We Want To End Sanctuary Cities': 'Chicago Flips Red' VP Questioned By Andy Biggs
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4/15/2025
At a House Judiciary Committee hearing before the Congressional recess, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) questioned Danielle Carter-Walters, Vice President of "Chicago Flips Red."
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For your testimony, we'll now proceed with questions under the five-minute rule and we'll
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begin with Mr. Biggs. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I thank the witnesses for being here today.
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I've read all of your statements that you've submitted and have been listening intently to
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your testimony. Mr. Hallman, I just want to confirm Cook County Jail in Illinois
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from October 1st, 2022 to February 6th, 2025, released more than 1,000 criminal aliens into
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their community. Correct. Is that accurate? Yep. And just want to confirm this, Mr. Franklin. I don't
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want to take this out of context. You said compelling local police to enforce federal
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immigration law would only further damage community trust. Is that an accurate reflection? I'm reading
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from your statement. Is that accurate? Yes, depending upon the jurisdiction and what those
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unique circumstances might be for that particular city or town. And Ms. Carter-Walters, in Chicago,
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where they've released over a three-year period more than 1,000 criminals back into your community,
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does that make you feel safer as a citizen? No. Did it make your community feel safer? No. And did it
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provide actual safety when you saw MS-13 train to Aragua roaming the streets there? No. So you've
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demanded a full forensic audit of every dollar tied to migrant shelters, right? Yes. And a freeze on the
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$92 million budget until full reviews are completed? Yes, sir. And you want the accountability and
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community input? Yes, sir. And a federal investigation into potential corruption? And potentially, if there
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is corruption, you want prosecution. Is that right? Yes. And most importantly, you want an end to
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sanctuary policies that you feel disadvantages you guys as citizens of Chicago vis-a-vis illegal aliens
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who are being released into your community? We want to end sanctuary cities. And go to you now,
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Sheriff. Thank you, Sheriff Wagner. So you outline and give some examples of some horrific instances in
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your own county, particularly shocking case 2021 in Othello. Can you briefly, I mean briefly, recount that
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for us? Yeah. In 2021, we had an incident of an illegal alien that took the life of a mother and a
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daughter, the daughter being a special needs female that had the capacity of a five-year-old. And they did
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in a very horrific way by dismembering the bodies and leaving them in a trunk of a vehicle. How did
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that impact your community? That was a huge impact in our community. How so? Well, any horrific crime,
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no matter who's involved, is going to impact the community. And I think that the situation that we
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were faced with is the limited resources that everyone keeps talking about here. I'm a department
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of 18 people, and that includes myself and my undersheriff, that we're working. I'm not a
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politician. By, I guess, my job I am. But we actually get out and do the work. And this situation...
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You imply that we don't get out and do the work, which is fair. That's all. That's fair, Sheriff.
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I'm not saying that. It's fair. I'm not saying that. But the reality is that, I mean,
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it affects the community because we are a small community, a small farming community of all
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nationalities. And we are very close to each other, and we care about each other very much.
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In your recommendations, you talk about allowing you to enforce the law, and that might mean that
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you actually cooperate with federal officials. So if I understand your keep Washington working
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law, that's the statute there, are you allowed to hold someone with an ICE detainer?
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We are not. Are you allowed to transfer someone if ICE requests that you transfer them to their
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custody? According to the KWW, no. So the state law actually directly, not indirectly, not impliedly,
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it actually directly defies federal law, federal statute. That's what I understand, yes.
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Yeah, because federal statute says if you get a detainer, you're supposed to hold.
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Yeah. You're supposed to hold. That's what federal law says. And you can't do that there.
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Correct. How does that impact the safety of your community?
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Well, ours is impacted in a great way because, one, my jail has been closed for three years,
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and I find that ironic in this situation as well. But it impacts us in a great way because,
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like I believe it was Mr. Jordan was explaining, putting people out onto the street and having them
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get caught again becomes a bigger problem. We're not arresting on immigration status. We're putting
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people in jail for crimes they committed in our community. And then ICE, because of public records
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that are available and things like that, they have the ability to find out who's in our custody and where
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they are and when they're released and all those kind of things. And they are basically released to
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their custody in the opposite way, similar to Denver in most cases.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My time has expired.
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Ms. Jayapal.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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