Alex Wagner

That is very alarming.

2025 was the deadliest year for ICE in two decades.

There were 32 deaths in ICE custody.

There have been several just this year alone, and we're on the 16th day of January.

What checks are supposed to be in place as far as detention?

And I would assume this is all subject to congressional oversight.

Yes.

But if you're in Congress, can you not go to an ICE detention center and demand to get let in?

So that is what the law says.

which is like up is down, down is up.

We are officially through the looking glass.

When you talk about the tactics, I mean, we were talking about Congress's role in all of this and the fact that they're not trained.

And I just feel like that's another subject for Congress, right?

Like if we want ICE agents to receive proper training and I don't know, not use ban chokeholds and like use the most extraordinary and extreme measures to detain people who are largely peaceful, right?

What does that look like?

Does it just have to be, you know, House Republicans and Senate Republicans agreeing that this is un-American and this shouldn't happen and doing something legislatively about it?

Or what is the process?

And yet we still, I mean, the person who was reportedly killed was, I believe, strangled to death, but also had a sort of violent criminal record, which makes it not okay to kill him in jail under federal custody, but it does make it politically more complicated for Democrats to rush to his defense, I think, or anyone to rush to his defense.

Not that that is warranted necessarily, but it makes the calculus a little bit more complicated.

Sure.