Raskin Statement on GOP’s Dangerous ICE Boondoggle

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Representative Jamie Raskin (MD-08) released the following statement after House Republicans passed S.Con.Res. 33, legislation that initiates the process to provide billions more taxpayer dollars for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP):

"I voted 'hell no' on House Republicans' latest scheme to funnel billions of taxpayer funding toward Donald Trump and Stephen Miller's reign of ICE lawlessness. Kristi Noem was ejected from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), but masked federal agents are still conducting indiscriminate raids and harassing our neighbors.

"Today is the 75th day of House Republicans' DHS shutdown. It didn't have to be this way. An overwhelming majority of Congress-House Democrats, Senate Democrats and Senate Republicans-supports a DHS funding bill that would restore funding to all of DHS except ICE and Border Patrol. Under this legislation, TSA officers, Secret Service agents and other public servants could continue their work without fear of missing a paycheck while we work on reining in ICE and Border Patrol, which are super well-funded for the foreseeable future. Speaker Mike Johnson made the ridiculous and unpopular decision not to pass this bill more than a month ago, instead prolonging the longest government shutdown in our country's history.

"Free-spending MAGA Republicans already wrote ICE and CBP a $170 billion check for their lawless and lethal crusade, paid for by the American people. Now they want to spend at least $70 billion more on destabilizing our communities-all while many of our people can't afford groceries or health care! Instead of lowering costs or restoring Americans' health care, the GOP is bankrolling Trump's violent Gangster State.

"I stand with the millions of Americans across the political spectrum who are outraged by the GOP's quest to criminalize, deport, detain and disappear immigrants. Together we will defend our Constitution and hold Donald Trump and his cronies accountable for the chaos they've unleashed against our people, including immigrants."

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