Wes Moore

Now their budget is $85 billion.

It is now the largest law enforcement agency in this country.

It is bigger.

ICE is bigger than the FBI.

ICE is bigger than the ATF.

ICE is bigger than the DEA.

And they are now the 13th largest military force in the world by funding, and they're arresting five-year-olds.

They're arresting mothers in the Eastern Shore who simply asked to go see their son because their son was sick when they did not let her go see her son, that the woman in the Eastern Shore, her son died of cancer while she was detained.

This is not making any of us safer.

And so the legislation that I signed is basically saying that we will still work with federal authorities on dealing with violent criminals, people who are murderers and rapists and pedophiles.

We will work with them to make sure those people have accountability.

But we're not going to allow ICE to deputize our local law enforcement who are trained and who are accountable.

I have too much respect for local law enforcement to ask them to be deputized by an agency that is now putting people in our streets who are untrained, unqualified, and unaccountable.

Well, I think Leader Jeffries came to Maryland just with the same ask that I have had, which is if you say the votes are not there in the Senate, that's fine.

But, you know, the best way to prove that that's true, call for a vote.

do the democratic process.

We have now seen how this assault on our democracy that we were just talking about, that we're seeing from the federal administration, is in full effect.

And its impacts we are seeing every single day.

They are impacts like we're watching with the largest gain in unemployment of black women in the past year than we have seen in our nation's history.

It's impacts like seeing how Maryland alone is at 25,000 federal workers fired.