Amy Klobuchar
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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.
The
unbelievable bounty system they have, where they're picking up legal citizens, putting them in a car, and then we think they get some kind of bonus for doing it—the training, which was five months, going down to 47 days in honor of President Trump being the 47th president.
And that's just the beginning of the overhaul, the complete overhaul that must be made to our immigration and border enforcement.
You can't just sit there and say life goes on as normal.
When I've had two of my constituents who are innocent, no criminal record, killed, and two of the three homicides in Minneapolis were committed by federal agents.
Thank you.
It was great to be on.
Thanks, Rachel.
Our message is really clear and straightforward.
We need ICE out of Minnesota.
They are not making us more safe.