Hakeem Jeffries

and an up or down vote, and then compelling Republicans to join us because of the public pressure with respect to the release of the Epstein files, we're going to have to mount the case and put enough pressure, which is coming from the public, on just a handful of Republicans to be able to get this done.

So part of what it will look like is to make sure that the committees of jurisdiction are holding public hearings detailing for the American people

Why we need to see accountability.

Why things have gone so wrong at the Department of Homeland Security.

Why the mission of ICE is not what we are seeing.

Donald Trump promised to go after violent felons.

He ain't going after violent felons.

They're going after American citizens and law-abiding immigrant families.

So we're going to have to detail that in compelling ways, using the tools that we have as members of Congress, even though we are in the minority.

And that's exactly what we plan to do.

Federal law prohibits the use of Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and the Affordable Care Act to provide health insurance in any way, shape, or form to undocumented immigrants, period, full stop.

That's the law, and Democrats aren't trying to change that.

You.

Nephew.

Yksi tärkeä asia on se, että republikaanit yrittävät arvioida, mitä ICE tekee amerikkalaisissa yhteisöissä, amerikkalaisissa kaupungeissa ja toisiin amerikkalaisiin ihmisiin. ICE just killed in cold blood Renee Nicole Goode, a 37-year-old American citizen who's left behind three children. This is unreal stuff.

It's unconscionable, it's unacceptable and it's un-American. So continuing to ratchet up the intensity around public pressure and sentiment will be important to push a handful of our Republican colleagues to join us to make sure that ICE actually is conducting itself like every other law enforcement agency in America. That means no masks,

That means a requirement that there are body cameras when ICE is engaging in this activity all across the country. That means a warrant requirement. That means making sure that ICE can't just bully and bombard and steamroll and storm houses of worship, hospitals, schools, ripping children away from their parents, things that are appropriately horrifying the American people that no other law enforcement agency

is permitted to do. And we also have to make sure in law that this notion that ICE has absolute immunity is nothing that can ever be vindicated in an American court of law. Because part of the challenge here is if you have people in the Trump administration saying that it doesn't matter what you do, you will not be held accountable, then there are going to be some bad apples who are out there toting guns

Engaging in this lawless behavior, who will feel like they have a free hand to do whatever they want. Governor Walz is right, however. They are going to be held accountable.

ICE is using taxpayer dollars to brutalize American citizens and to unnecessarily and viciously target law-abiding immigrant families and communities. The whole premise that Donald Trump sold to the American people was that this immigration enforcement activity was going to target violent felons. It's not targeting violent felons. They're targeting American families.