Joe Morelle

We simply want to have the same kind of rules for ICE that you would have for any member of a local police force anywhere in the United States.

Well, look, every police officer in America goes unmasked in communities where they live.

So if there was people who are going to be targeted, it would be your local law enforcement who lives in the same community that they do public safety in.

The truth is, this is just a way to intimidate people.

it's a way to hide your identity frankly i think it's dangerous for ice officials and ice agents as well as certainly and most importantly dangerous for residents of our community so it's a basic fundamental thing that we've had since the birth of this republic 250 years ago these basic rules need to be followed and we don't do it for fbi officials we don't do it for local law enforcement officials we don't do it for anyone in law enforcement why

Would we do it for ICE agents who are now swarming our streets all over this country?

Well, what I would say is if that's the case, and I think you're right, it is, ICE doesn't need the money.

So why not fund the Coast Guard?

Why not fund TSA?

Why not fund FEMA?

We could do all of that and not fund ICE as we continue to negotiate because, as you point out, ICE already has the money they need.

So why would they use ICE, which doesn't need the funding, to hold hostage the folks that do

transit agents at TSA or the Coast Guard, for God's sake, the Coast Guard?

You're going to defund the Coast Guard?

So let's fund these other things.

It's entirely appropriate while we continue to work towards trying to find common ground about the way ICE agents act out and when they're engaged in the American public and be certain of this.

Americans are very unhappy with ICE.

It's very unpopular because they've seen two American citizens.

These weren't so-called non-documented people.

Two American citizens are dead within the last three weeks at the hands of federal agents.