Senator Richard Blumenthal

What is really terrifying about this memo is not only that it directs agents to engage in blatantly unconstitutional action, but it is also from the acting director of ICE, Todd Lyon. The highest levels of ICE in effect are saying,

that agents should break down your door, ransack your home, terrify your children, arrest or detain you without a judicial warrant. Americans ought to be terrified as well as shocked. And it simply means that

The law means nothing to these agents. We've seen it on the streets. But now we know that it is authorized at the highest level of ICE. This lawlessness is linked to the leaders like Kristi Noem and Totlein. And I think it cries out for accountability. That's the reason why I'm continuing to pursue this investigation, which is indicative of a pattern. What we did in our investigation was we showed in a report –

About two dozen American citizens who were dragged from their cars, brutally assaulted, detained for days, deprived of access to doctors or their lawyers. American citizens. And that report gave these whistleblowers the trust or credibility in our office to come forward with this shocking, hidden memorandum. And I give them a lot of courage for their, a lot of credit for their courage.

could go into up to a home and without a judicial warrant just go into their home. How lawless is this assertion in this memo? Jen, that's really a fundamental core question here, because I've worked over the years with state, local police, as well as federal agents, the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and there is an innate respect for the Constitution that

a warrant, a judicial warrant from a judge, not just an administrative officer in a form that they call I-205, is necessary to arrest someone, break into their home, if necessary, and it is based on probable cause. Agents honestly have come to me when I was a lawyer and said, we want to be sure we have enough to go to the judge.

Ja se on yleensä sellaista huolta lakia, joka on periaatteellista meidän järjestelmämme ja lakien sääntelyyn. Ja se tekee niitä poliitikkoja ja poliitikkoja turvallisempia. Koska ajattele sitä hetkeksi. Olet ystävällä. Ja all of a sudden mass, unidentified,

men armed are at your door, threaten to break it down and ransack your home, some people would be inclined to resist. A warrant protects those individual agents as well as the people whose homes are approached. So arrests require these judicial warrants if they're to be done under these circumstances. And the pattern here is that we've seen and we've documented in my report that

Ice is lawless and reckless and it makes these communities and our nation less safe. It ought to be going back to enforcing the law and respecting the law. Senator Richard Blumenthal, thank you so much for bringing this report to all of us. We really appreciate you being here tonight. Thank you. Thanks for having me.