'They Love To Use A Butcher Knife On Things': Crockett Reacts To Trump Invoking Alien Enemies Act

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On CNN's State of the Union on Sunday, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) spoke about President Trump invoking wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to facilitate the deportation of Venezuelan migrants accused of being gang members.  Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more:  https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript   Stay Connected Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes:  http://forbes.com

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00:00Well, my, my argument is that we already have tools that are available to remove undocumented

00:07violent people from our country.

00:09And so the idea that you want to go into a zombie law, this is kind of like what we saw

00:14in Arizona when they decided to revive a zombie law around abortion.

00:18It is the fact that we can't trust this administration to actually use a scalpel, but instead they

00:25love to use a butcher knife on things.

00:28And so giving them this wide latitude to just kind of go across and just claim that

00:33anybody is anything is wrong.

00:36And so we do have courts, we do have processes, we do have laws, and we should just go ahead

00:42and use those.

00:43There's a reason that nobody else has decided to go back until, into Adam's times in order

00:50to try to find ways to make sure that we can keep our country safe.

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