Kevin Stitt

How many more lives need to be lost before this administration realizes that a political and partisan narrative is not as important as American values?

How many times must local and national leaders must plead with you, Donald Trump, to end this operation and recognize that this is not creating safety in our city?

We believe in federalism and state rights and nobody likes feds coming into their state.

And so what's the goal right now?

Is it to deport every single non-U.S.

citizen?

I don't think that's what Americans want.

We cannot fund a Department of Homeland Security that is murdering American citizens, that is traumatizing little boys and girls all across the country in violation of the law.

Listen, I'm not endeavoring to fix every single problem that exists in the Department of Homeland Security, but we should only vote for a bill that puts constraints on this lawlessness, that reforms the way that they are endangering our citizens in our cities.

If those bills pass, 96 percent of the federal government is funded.

Take up DHS by itself.

Let's have an honest negotiation.

Put some guardrails on what's going on, some accountability, and that would solve this problem.

We don't have to have a shutdown.

Things are bad in a lot of areas across our state.

And with the temperatures not likely to get above freezing, it's more likely that things are going to get worse before they get better.

This is kind of a pajamas all day kind of day.

You help save emergency responders lives when you stay home so they can get out, do their work.

We don't want anyone hurt for a preventable situation.

It's just not worth it.