Michigan AG Dana Nessel: We Might Not Be Able to Catch Serial Killers if Funds Are Diverted to Mass Deportations

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
WITT: “President-Elect Trump says that he plans to declare a national emergency now to secure the necessary resources to deport millions of undocumented immigrants. But experts say that’s going to pose enormous financial and logistical challenges. So how might the diversion of funds to deport people impact our state and federal partnerships in human trafficking and cold case sexual assaults?”

NESSEL: “We are really worried about this in our department. We have all kinds of partnerships that involve local, state, and federal authorities. And specifically we work with Homeland Security. We work with the FBI. We work with U.S. marshals, and we’ve sort of already been told by some of those entities our ongoing projects where we work to apprehend serial killers and cold case homicides and human trafficking cases, that they don’t know they’re going to be available to work with us on those kinds of cases in the future because they’re going to be so busy diverting their finite resources to try to apprehend individuals who may be in the country illegally. And, you know, irrespective of what your opinion is about ensuring that you’re detaining undocumented people, the concern is a lot of those people while they might be here illegally, and that in and of itself is a crime, it’s a federal misdemeanor, but when you decide to use those resources to—“