Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Bloomberg Audio Studios. Podcasts. Radio. News. A group of House Democrats who've been critical of President Trump's immigration enforcement policies left Washington today to gather in Minnesota for a field hearing titled Kidnapped and Disappeared, Trump's Deadly Assault on Minnesota, featuring testimony from people impacted by ICE raids in the state.
Congresswoman Catherine Clark of Massachusetts, the House Democratic whip, led that hearing and joined us from the Minnesota State Building in St. Paul. Listen.
Well, Joe, thank you. Thank you for having me on and bringing attention to this hearing that we held today. And let me tell you, hearing it firsthand from people who have been taken by ICE, U.S. citizens detained for for no reason whatsoever, ripped out of their car. having tear gas put in through the air filter of their car just for honking their horn and blowing a whistle.
The stories that we heard, and of course, we have all seen the horrific video of the shooting of Renee Good. they really bring to life what is at stake here in Minneapolis and here across the country if we continue to allow ICE to have this unlawful reign of terror on our communities.
And so going to your question about what do we do about it, as we are having one of the funding bills that funds the Department of Homeland Security coming up potentially next week and the answer is we have been very clear with republicans there needs to be accountability and guard rails in this funding or they are going to have to fund this on their own because we need to see
that we are going to have body cameras, that we are going to have the ability to have actual arrest warrants, that there is going to be proper training for these officers, that we are going to have to look about how ICE is deploying these people who do not seem to have the training or the temperament to protect our communities and is being targeted by this administration way.
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Chapter 2: What hearing did House Democrats hold regarding ICE in Minnesota?
And this should not be a partisan issue. So we're going to continue to negotiate. I hope that people will come and hear what happened in Minneapolis and take those lessons of this is the moment. History is calling us to stand up at this moment and say, while we are fighting for the economic security, to lower the cost of living for Americans, make sure we protect their health care,
We also have to stand up at this moment for our constitutional rights, whether it's the First Amendment right to protest peacefully or whether it is the right to just go about your daily life and not have to fear being stopped, asked for papers and possibly abducted.
Congresswoman, this is all happening within weeks of a possible government shutdown. Are you willing to shut down the government over this?
You know, we have had one approach around these government budgets, and that is negotiate and imploring our Republican colleagues to come to the table and negotiate with us. And we saw what happened. back in the fall, rather than coming and working with us around extending the ACA tax credits, they chose to go home, to close the government down and to just leave town for over 40 days.
I certainly hope they are not going to make that choice now and do that again to the American people, to our economy and to the message that it would send that they are unwilling to come and negotiate around guardrails for. Yeah. For ICE and DHS and would choose instead.
Well, that ACA matter is still not resolved, Congresswoman. I'm just wondering where your head is on this. I know there's the Bernie Moreno bill in the Senate, but senators just left town. House won't be here when they get back. Is the extension of Obamacare subsidies on the rocks?
Oh, it certainly is. And what a tragedy. And what a statement to the American people. We had 17 Republican members of Congress join us in a three-year extension to give time to the American people, to delay the spikes we're seeing in premiums, and to leave DC without resolving this, to let the last day of enrollment in the ACA come and go. It is just part of what we are seeing in difference
On behalf of this administration and my colleagues across the aisle in Congress, to the plight of American people, and they are telling us loudly they can't afford their lives, whether it's the cost of housing or groceries or utility bills, and certainly what is so fundamental to giving your family security, to have affordable health insurance so they can get care when and where they need it.
All of that has been turned upside down by Republicans and Congress and this administration taking away health care in order to fund tax cuts. But we will stay with it. We will keep the pressure up, whether it's on health care, whether it's on lowering costs, certainly on whether it is putting guardrails and accountability and stopping this invasion of ICE in Minnesota.
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Chapter 3: What personal stories were shared about the impact of ICE raids?
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