Sec. Kristi Noem Fires Back At Reporter: 'All You Have To Do Is Look At This Binder Full Of People'

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.