Robert Garcia
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1,574 appearances
62 recordings
10 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 12 Sep
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And let me explain why.
Right now...
What ICE is doing is causing massive distrust with local police officers, local law enforcement on the ground, who have worked really hard to regain the trust of their communities.
I've talked to local police officers.
I was mayor of a city with 800 cops before I got to Congress just a few years ago.
I've talked to those rank and file cops, our local police chiefs, they are horrified by what they're seeing and what ICE is doing.
And their concern is the danger that now they're being put in, their concern about how folks are gonna associate ICE and their tactics with what they're doing.
So if we really wanna support
Law enforcement, I would say to my Democratic colleagues, we have to abolish ICE.
We can't say that this is OK or that somehow this is somehow how we are going to act and fund.
They don't deserve a penny more.
Look, we don't.
And that's what's really scary.
And it's not just what's happening at Alligator Alcatraz.
This is happening across the country and in detention centers.
We know that ICE has now tried to limit oversight, congressional visits, even though we've won lawsuits in the courts.
Alligator Alcatraz has been a horrific abuse of human rights.
God knows who is making unlimited amounts of money.
Billions of dollars are being made on these detention centers by private industry.
So we have to be very, very aggressive in oversight.
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