Amy Klobuchar
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So, all of this just has culminated in this moment, where people across our state, regardless of political ideology,
mounting time and time again have said, enough.
We have had enough.
Get ICE out of our state and stop these abusive tactics, taking Hmong elders out of their homes, dragging them out in their underwear, and then figuring out they had the wrong guy because he was already in jail, taking two-year-olds, sending them to Texas, my office up through the night trying to get that kid back
on a plane, which we were able to do so she could be united with her mother, five-year-olds with Spiderman backpacks.
It just goes on and on and on.
And it is the biggest abuse I have ever seen of people's civil rights.
And the fact that there is now some de-escalation and that they are willing now to talk to our leaders and our police officers and
let them do their real jobs and get ICE out of our state is truly a moment, but we have to see it bear out to its finality.
And they can't keep doing this all around our country as well.
Well, as you pointed out, there are more and more Democrats.
I've signaled my opposition, as did Senator Smith, weeks ago to this and voted against that—a big, beautiful betrayal of the bill that was $75 billion added to the ICE budget, so they are now bigger than the FBI.
And now we have had a number of Democrats—Senator Schumer, Murray, others—that have made it very clear that we are not voting for that bill
as it is.
What we would like to see is there's some bipartisan bills that fund other parts of the government that could pass and then separate out this ICE funding.
Too much money.
The surge has to stop.
The illegal entries into people's homes have to stop.
They have to wear mandatory body cameras, which that agent in the Rene Good killing was not wearing.
He had a cell phone on.