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Leader Jeffries to Trump admin: 'Trump will leave office long before the 5-year statute of limitations expires'
Leader Jeffries news conference today:
watch:
...Rep. Jeffries responding to the question a lot of Duers are asking about DHS funding. As expected, the leader hasn't yet met with all of his membership and isn't commenting today on what decision will be made to address ICE conduct through their funding.
When he does, we'll get his full perspective on this, and a legislative path forward.
He did talk about it today, though:
Q. Today, Congressman said that he plans to
introduce legislation to abolish ICE. How
comfortable are you with members of
your party pushing this?
Jeffries: I haven't had a conversation
with the congressman on
that particular piece of legislation,
but our position has been clear that
taxpayer dollars are being used by the
Department of Homeland Security
and ICE to brutalize
American citizens and law-abiding
American taxpayers in ways that the
American people reject.
The American people didn't sign up for
what we're seeing on the streets of
Minneapolis, in Chicago land, or in
other parts of the country.
The American people thought that the
Trump administration was going to target
violent felons who are here in the
country illegally. But instead,
we see American citizens like Renee
Nicole Good being gunned down in cold
blood without justification.
Taxpayer dollars are being used by the
Department of Homeland Security and ICE
to unleash extremism on the streets of
America by individuals who are showing
depraved indifference to human life.
That's what we're seeing. That's what
the American people are seeing.
And the American people don't want their
taxpayer dollars used in that fashion.
And so as we approach the appropriations
process related to homeland security
funding, Democrats in the House and the
Senate have demanded changes
to the way in which ICE conducts itself
such that it falls into line with the standards,
protocols, and behavior of every other
law enforcement agency in the United
States of America.
ICE cannot conduct itself as if it's
above the law. In America, no
one is above the law. And these
claims of absolute immunity
are insane, absurd, and completely
unfounded in law or in fact.
There are a variety of different
things that clearly should be done.
No other agency is running around
communities in the United
States of America being masked up. ICE
agents should not be masked up.
Every other law enforcement agency when
they execute upon their mission
have warrant requirements. ICE should
have warrant requirements.
Back home in New York City,
New York's finest, the NYPD,
best law enforcement agency in the
world, they all have to wear body
cameras, as is the case with police
departments and law enforcement agencies
all over the country. ICE should be required
to wear body cameras.
Law enforcement agencies all across the
country have policies that limit their
ability to storm hospitals, schools, or
houses of worship. ICE shouldn't be able
to storm hospitals, schools,
or houses of worship.
There are variety of different things that
can be done that we have put on the table
and will continue to put on the table
to get ICE under control. so that they are
actually conducting themselves like every other
law enforcement agency in the country
as opposed to operating as if they're
above the law somehow thinking they've
got absolute immunity.
They don't have absolute immunity.
Supreme Court granted immunity
unfortunately to one person, the
president of the United States of
America. It's one of the reasons why
we've seen this extremism consistently
unleashed on the American people, but
it doesn't apply to anybody else.
So, every single one of these people who
we see brutalizing the American people,
they're going to be held accountable one
way or the other accordance with the law.
And the statute of limitations, this is for
every single member of the Trump admin
is five years. Donald Trump will be long gone.
Left 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, statute of
limitations will be alive and well.
And there'll be a lot of people in this
country, patriotic people, determined
to make sure those who broke the law
with impunity during the Trump administration
are held accountable.
Will you vote no if you don't get those?
The bill related to Homeland Security
funding that was currently scheduled to
be on the House floor this week is not
on the House floor because it doesn't have
Democratic support.
So, you're going to have to ask
House Republicans what they plan to do
relative to funding in this particular
area if they continue to take a my way or the
highway approach.
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