Gov. J.B. Pritzker: ‘We Here in Illinois Follow the Law; They Don’t Seem to Believe in That at the White House’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
Sanders: “Governor, you’ve been on the mind of the folks at the White House. I was watching the press briefing yesterday, and the White House press secretary namechecked you by name, saying potentially you you saying that you are not going to comply with the Trump Administration’s new immigration policy is illegal. I just want to know if you have a response to the White House’s response to your pushback to their policy.”

PRITZKER: “We here in Illinois follow the law. They don’t seem to believe in that. At the White House, consistently, they’ve been breaking the law and they’ve put in place unconstitutional orders. They’re trying to take away birthright citizenship, which is right there in the Constitution. And by the way, we have laws on the books that do two things. One is we want to arrest and take out of our country those who are violent criminals, who are undocumented. Frankly, I don’t want them in my state or in the country. Those laws are on the books already. But we also have laws on the books that say that people who’ve been here a long time, who are following the rules or paying their taxes, or holding down jobs, who happen to be undocumented, that we’re not going to have our police here locally coordinating with federal officials to have them taken away. We want people like that in this country. We’re a country of immigrants, mostly, and we ought to abide by that principle. We’ve been doing that for our entire existence, and it’s good for our economy to have immigrants come to our shores. My family came several generations ago with nothing and became successful. So many others who are here now are, you know, their families are multiple generations now succeeding in the United States. And it’s good they’re paying taxes. They’re holding down—“