Amy Klobuchar
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And it is a long way from a victory.
But the fact that they are pulling out the federal agents as we speak and Bonvino, who is just in this same TV studio I'm in today, 24 hours ago, was in the same room with me, is now gone.
Yes, this morning I got a call early from the White House and some texts from the president's chief of staff later in the day about what was going to happen here.
And this is a long haul of standing up publicly, calling them out, standing with our police chiefs, who have been very strong, Minneapolis, suburban areas, our mayor, our governor, our attorney general, Keith Ellison,
and all of us saying, enough is enough, our congressional delegation on the Democratic side, and then pleading with our Republican colleagues.
And finally, this weekend, after the horrendous murder—followed, of course, after the murder, the killing of Renee Goode, and now you have the killing of Alex Preti.
Talking to his parents last night, when they told me how offended they were,
crying the entire time about the lies about him when he had devoted his life to taking care of our veterans.
And they go out—administration officials calling him a domestic terrorist, calling Renee Good a domestic terrorist.
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.