'I'm Tired Of Hearing Oh They Made A Mistake': Jasmine Crockett Promotes 'Due Process' Amendment

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At Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) promoted an amendment for to protect citizens' due process rights.

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00:00General ladies, time's expired. Who else seeks recognition?

00:04General ladies from Texas is recognized for five minutes.

00:08I'd like to first associate my, or associate the gentle ladies, my remarks with the gentle ladies' remarks,

00:16because some things just should not be debatable.

00:20And one of the things that we know is that the Constitution is really supposed to be a guiding light.

00:28And the reason that we're having to do amendments like this one and the other one

00:35and talk about things such as due process and the Constitution

00:39is because we could actually avoid maybe detaining or sending away U.S. citizens

00:47if we just gave them their due process rights.

00:51Because I'm tired of hearing, oh, they made a mistake.

00:54Well, guess what? That mistake may cost somebody their job.

00:58That mistake may cost somebody their home.

01:01That mistake may cost somebody actually being able to still have their child.

01:07Because authorities may be called.

01:09Because that person is now not showing up to pick up their child.

01:13Or some people don't have the privilege of having a salary job

01:17where whether they show up or not, they're still going to get paid.

01:21Some people need to be at work.

01:23And so if you care about U.S. citizens, we know how y'all feel about immigrants.

01:27But if you care about U.S. citizens, I don't understand why this would be debatable.

01:32Because if there's anybody that we're fighting for, all supposed to be fighting for,

01:37it should be U.S. citizens.

01:38In fact, it's U.S. citizens that are the ones that send us here.

01:42Not Donald Trump.

01:43So with that, we should be looking out.

01:47We should have their back.

01:48And we should say, as the federal government,

01:51we will not do things that are directly going to disenfranchise our citizens.

01:59And that's exactly what this is.

02:02But if we just followed the Constitution and gave people their due process rights,

02:06then maybe they could show up and prevent some of these mistakes.

02:09And maybe these mistakes that maybe seem so small to y'all,

02:14because maybe the people that are being targeted have a little bit more melanin.

02:18So maybe we don't care about the mistakes that happen with some of those folks.

02:23I don't really understand.

02:25But I'm tired.

02:27And frankly, I think y'all should be tired, too.

02:32Because I think no matter what district you come from,

02:36if you were to survey your district,

02:38there is no one in your district that would say that we should spend money on ICE.

02:46ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement,

02:50to detain or deport, which you can't even deport,

02:53detain and kidnap, or detain and whatever,

03:00unlawfully restrain a U.S. citizen.

03:05Not anyone in your district would actually support that.

03:08I would put money on it.

03:09And so this absolutely should be a no-brainer.

03:12And I thank you to the gentlelady from the state of Washington

03:16for proposing just common sense,

03:18which seems like it is not so common nowadays.

03:21I will yield.

03:23Gentlelady yields.

03:26Gentlelady yields.

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