Pritzker on Illegal Immigrants: You Can Find Citizens Who Committed A Crime, Who Get Out And Do Something Bad
Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) reacts to recidivism among illegal immigrants in an interview with FOX News host Bret Baier on “Special Report.”
BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS: Do you believe any illegal immigrant charged with or convicted of a felony should be deported? GOV. JB PRITZKER (D-IL): I think they ought to take the violent criminals and get them out of my state and get them out of the country. I absolutely believe that. But that’s not what they’re doing. They said they were going after the worst of the worst. BAIER: You don’t help them because you’re a sanctuary state, right? PRITZKER: No, we do. If you bring us a judicial warrant, we will bring you all kinds of help on the ground to go get the bad guys. That’s what we want. We want the bad guys off the streets. What we don’t want is for people to get racially profiled. That’s what’s happening right now. BAIER: Earlier this year, Chicago police charged two illegal aliens with felony murder in the killing of a 63-year-old man who was found tied up in his home. They were from Ecuador and Venezuela. Both were caught and released at the Texas border by the Biden administration in 2023. One of the suspects was in custody. Had been arrested in Chicago on January 12th for trying to lure children, but was released into the community with ICE detainer request ignored due to sanctuary policy. Like, when somebody looks at that and says, that can’t be a good thing. PRITZKER: Bret, every person that gets held, every person that be — for probable cause with due process, every person has a trial or has a hearing, and it gets determined whether or not they should be held in a jail cell or whether they get bail, right? Those things have happened all over the country. And I can tell you, at least in Chicago and in Illinois, when someone is determined to be a danger to the community, they are held. That’s how it works. Now, did a judge make a bad decision? Maybe so. But to pick out the situation of one immigrant, I bet you could find U.S. citizens all across the country who committed a crime, who also get out and then they do something bad.
