Tina Smith
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And our Republican colleagues in the Senate need to hear that and they need to deal with it because they need us to pass this bill.
It's pretty simple what we are asking.
We say,
Like there are some common sense things that we should be able to do as Congress to keep people safe from these massive ice, overreach, chaos, recklessness, and violence.
The same kinds of rules that local police forces have to abide by every single day.
You can't wear a mask.
You've got to wear an ID.
You need to have a body camera.
You...
You can't just barge into somebody's house without a warrant.
You can't just rove around communities and detain or arrest people who have done nothing wrong.
These are standard practices for police forces all over the country.
And I think Democrats are coalescing around saying, let's just do this.
There's
Huge reforms we need.
Huge changes to ICE.
I think it needs to be torn down to the studs.
But we can't do that right now.
But we can take some basic steps to help keep Americans safe from this out-of-control agency.
And that's what we're asking.