KENTUCKY — On this week’s ‘In Focus Kentucky’ program, we’re sitting down one-on-one with Congressman James Comer, R-Ky., of Tompkinsville.

The Republican lawmaker has been serving since 2016 as the U.S. Representative for Kentucky’s 1st Congressional District, which covers 35 counties in portions of western and central Kentucky.

During this segment, Rep. Comer reflects on the deadly plane crash where sixty-seven people were killed after an American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army helicopter collided and crashed into the Potomac River.

Rep. Comer shares his reactions to the first few weeks of the Trump administration and his support of President Trump’s border security efforts, which now permits U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to target schools and churches after President Trump revoked a directive barring arrests in “sensitive” areas.

“Absolutely. I mean, if you’re serious about getting the illegal people who are here illegally and sending them back to where they came from, then obviously you need to go wherever they are. And if we have some kind of object director from the government that says we can’t go in schools or churches to get these people, then they’re going to end up in all the schools and churches. So I think that this is again common sense, and I think that this is what President Trump campaigned on, and he’s doing what he said he would do,” said Comer.

Rep. Comer also serves as chair of the powerful House Oversight and Government Committee announced he was launching an investigation into sanctuary cities across the United States to determine whether they have complied with federal immigration enforcement laws. Four Democratic mayors have been asked to testify in front of the committee on Feb. 11.

Sanctuary cities are described as jurisdictions that don’t fully comply with federal immigration enforcement efforts.

You can watch the full In Focus Kentucky segment in the player above.