Border crisis: GOP senator introduces bill allowing local police to enforce immigration laws

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a first-term Republican senator from Alabama, is introducing a bill to give state and local law enforcement more jurisdiction over illegal immigration cases, as the crisis at the southern border continues to escalate.

"Our local police across the country, as we speak, they don’t have, really, any authority with illegal immigration," Tuberville told Fox News. "And we need to find some way to be able to give our local law enforcement all across the country the ability to arrest, to identify, and then have some way to have jurisdiction over people who are not citizens of our country." The Alabama senator and former head football coach for Auburn University also noted that many of his senatorial colleagues are "on board" with the legislation.