Hakeem Jeffries

Now we know ICE is totally out of control and they need to be reined in.

We deserve immigration enforcement in this country that's actually fair, just, and humane, and that targets violent felons who are here illegally

not law-abiding immigrant families, or using taxpayer dollars, which we know ICE has done, to brutalize or in some cases kill American citizens.

They've now done that three different times.

And so Democrats made clear in the House and in the Senate, you're not getting a dime in funding with our support.

without dramatic, bold, meaningful changes to the way in which ICE conducts itself, including as it relates to the judicial warrants, drop the masks, body cameras on, independent investigations,

hands-off sensitive locations like schools and houses of worship, hospitals and polling sites.

We need to make sure that we root out any of the bad actors who should have never been hired by this administration.

They all deserve to be fired.

We got to make sure that we have an excessive use of force prevention policy that is ironclad and put in place.

So we've said basically in January into February that

We're not moving forward and funding ICE and the parts of the Department of Homeland Security that relate to Donald Trump's violent and extreme mass deportation machine.

Republicans then shut the Department of Homeland Security down, created a situation where TSA agents were forced to work without pay, and we know then created this chaos at airports, and then they tried to blame Democrats.

But the American people are not to be fooled.

and Democrats in the House and the Senate held the line, now resulting in Mike Johnson acknowledging that we got to move forward and fund the other aspects of the Department of Homeland Security without making the changes that we're demanding, but without giving a dime to ICE.

So now he said that, okay, we're going to consider, Don, funding ICE through reconciliation part two.

In other words, the one big ugly bill, part two, because in reconciliation, which, of course, Democrats oppose uniformly in the House and the Senate, you don't need a 60 vote majority to be able to pass something in the Senate.

You can do it with a simple majority.

But the problem that they're going to confront here is that the one big ugly bill is deeply unpopular.

They already ripped Medicaid away from the American people.