Illinois Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker warned Wednesday that the calls for the FBI to locate and arrest the AWOL Texas Democrats decamped in his state can be chalked up to “grandstanding,” adding that there is no federal law “applicable to this situation.”

As such, there’s “no way” that Texas lawmakers hiding out in his state can be arrested by anybody, Pritzker said.

Pritzker issued the warning in an interview with Jessica Yellin’s podcast “News Not Noise” in reaction to the many calls for the FBI to get involved to help Texas retrieve the 57 Democrats who fled Sunday to Illinois as well as New York and Massachusetts.

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