jason, why couldn t it be our government would trust local law enforcement municipalities to know their community and respond. when they call 911 whoever shows up i don t see the f.b.i. answering 911 calls. that s not their job. as if the f.b.i. doesn t have enough to do. they are supposed to be in charge of counter intelligence and kidnapping and sex trafficking and all these things and they re worried about school boards? that s the question jim jordan and other members of congress are asking. what s the national conspiracy that you see evidence of to justify allocating resources such as you did? it really should be up to the local sheriff if it s a big city or even a small city, the city police can take care of this. there is no evidence out there that this is some nationwide conspiracy that justifies using the resources of the federal bureau of investigation. what is it, mr. attorney general, that you saw that we
you know how i feel about sanctuary cities. i think they make communities less safe. my issue is immigration is a federal jurisdiction issue. i think, how about the president, he can do a two-for-one. make good on his jobs creation promised, give it to the federal government. this is what this doesn t texas. maybe texas will be better on this issue but california, arizona, possibly other states are going to be bifurcated on how they handle this. we are still going to have kate steinles and other cases where things fall through the cracks. eric: you wanted to go to the states. it goes into local law enforcement municipalities and says you can find out, check immigration status. kat: is supposed to be i.c.e. s job. is it legal because they decided yes, we do want to participate.
are interested in. there have already been quite a few cases of abuse. essentially the problem is that this is creating a nationwide warrant list location tracking list. let s get michael involved in the conversation. cade, we appreciate your thoughts on this. why is this license plate system necessary? one would argue, we already have law enforcement and they are doing the job. the analysis begins with what s the expectation of privacy when you take a government-issued license plate and drive down a public street? the second issue is that this already exists. there are 71% of the law enforcement municipalities that already have some form of license plate readers. in addition to which, there is a private company, a national vehicle location services, that has 800 million license plates in their database. 2200 law enforcement agencies already use that. the latest statistic i saw this morning was 800 million. whether it is 800 million or 2 billion, it is a heck of a lot of informat
officer was shot, another person injured. that officer who was shot was taken by chopper, which we saw here enroute to a nearby hospital, florida highway patrol is working the scene and as i mentioned, there are a number of law enforcement municipalities who are involved in this. i m going to keep a close watch on this and as i learn more, i ll update you. jon: they have one of the best trauma rooms in the country, so let s hope that officer is going to be okay. thank you very much, we ll check in with you later, harris faulkner. jenna: from one developing story to another we ve been watching closely on happening now , an american enjoying his vacation when he was allegedly shot by mexican drug gangs. now the victim s family is calling on the president and the mexican government for help. they re not looking. they re not looking for him. and that s what s frustrating, because we can t go over there and look for him. we need them to do it. we need them to allow the u.s. to go over.