On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Maryland Governor Wes Moore (D) responded to a question about whether ICE’s cooperation with police in Minneapolis would improve things because it is safer to arrest people in jails, saying that this approach is “going to make the situation worse.”
Host Kaitlan Collins played video of border czar Tom Homan saying, “Minneapolis, you’re a sanctuary city. If they let us into your jail and stop being a sanctuary city, we can arrest the bad guy in prison security. … And the difference is, in places where it’s not sanctuary, an agent can go into the jail and arrest a criminal illegal alien. But when you If someone is released into the community, now, we have to send an entire team because we have to arrest someone in their area, access – not knowing what weapons they have access to, it makes it dangerous for the officer, makes it dangerous for the alien, and it certainly makes it dangerous for the community.
Collins then asked, “Maryland is not a sanctuary state, obviously, as you know, Governor, do you think the administration would make any sense there if there was cooperation with police in Minneapolis?”
Moore replied, “No, because what he just said was not factually incorrect, it’s practically idiotic, because – what we know in the state of Maryland is that we actually follow the Constitution. We make sure that the laws are being followed. And the people of my state know that we have no higher priority than public safety. People who know – violent criminals in the state of Maryland, they know I have no patience for you. And What we also know is, in our state, if someone commits a violent crime, especially with a firearm, we’ll have them in handcuffs in 24 hours, that’s why we have the fastest decline in violent crime anywhere in the United States, the difference is we believe in constitutional policing, because, by working with communities, you are able to increase the closure rates, then help solve crimes, and make your community safer. Help And so, what we’re seeing — what we saw from Tom Homan is not only wrong, but, frankly, it will make the situation worse.
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