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Jim Sensenbrenner: “I guess I can say that robbing a bank is a Federal offense, and I do not think that State and local law enforcement wait…”

On the recordMarch 27, 2017
I guess I can say that robbing a bank is a Federal offense, and I do not think that State and local law enforcement wait for the FBI to come to respond to the bank and try to catch the people who are committing a Federal felony in the process of trying to clean out the bank's till.
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Jim Sensenbrenner
Republican · Wisconsin

Editor's note · Context

He compares bank robbery enforcement to immigration law enforcement.

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