Catherine Cortez Masto
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There's no strings attached, no strings attached.
And what we are seeing now is because they have all this money and because they had this quota from Stephen Miller to do 3,000 immigration deportations and detainments a day, they started onboarding
Whoever they could to work at ICE.
And not only were they onboarding them very quickly, they lowered their standards for hiring them.
And they decreased the training that most law enforcement go through as they're looking to do community policing, right?
De-escalation standards, use of force standards, none of that.
So then, as we are seeing in communities, this administration, unfortunately, wasn't about public safety.
Even though Donald Trump was talking about going after violent criminals, which, listen, I think we all, everybody in the community, I don't care where you live, you want violent criminals out of your community.
communities.
You want your community safe.
You want to know that when you call 911 and you have concerns, police officers are going to respond.
They're going to keep you safe, respect your rights, but go after those violent criminals.
What we were seeing, however, is just the opposite.
Now they're sending in to our communities
numbers of agents that normally were not assigned in those communities, this deportation force of excessive force, and they are coming into communities and they are just roving patrols, which we've never seen before.
Roving patrols.
They are knocking on doors.
They are not even knocking half the time.
They're going in and without a judicial warrant.