'60% Of Those Being Picked Up Are Now People Without Criminal Records': Lou Correa Slams Trump ICE Raids

During debate on the House floor, Rep. Lou Correa (D-CA) tore into the Trump Administration's immigration enforcement efforts.

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00:00I'm now happy to yield three minutes to the distinguished gentleman from California,

00:06Representative Correa.

00:07The gentleman from California is recognized.

00:09Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

00:11I ask, what happened?

00:13My hometown, Santa Ana, California, predominantly Hispanic Latino.

00:19Factory workers live there.

00:21Remember, we're the biggest manufacturing state in the union.

00:25Near-shoring, guess where it's happening?

00:28We're just ag state in the union, a lot of farm workers in my district.

00:33What happened?

00:35One day, we're going about our business in Santa Ana, Orange County, masked federal agents

00:41start going into our neighborhoods, picking up hardworking neighbors.

00:47Oh, yeah, you bet.

00:49People were concerned, scared, and nervous, and a lot of people expressed their First Amendment

00:54right.

00:55We got the National Guard.

00:59Sheriff Don Barnes, Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes did not call for the National Guard.

01:07Local police chiefs did not call for the National Guard.

01:12We get the National Guard.

01:15You know, President Trump promised to deport criminals, those with deportation orders, those

01:21here less than two years.

01:24But now, it's hard workers, people that pay taxes, that are being picked up.

01:30Like 60% of those being picked up are now people without criminal records.

01:38We didn't have any violence.

01:40We had masked officers coming into our neighborhoods.

01:47And you know, I bet President Trump would want to know what's going on on Main Street.

01:53One of the constituents that just got picked up, I talked about a minute ago, Narciso Barranco,

02:0125 years in the US, a gardener, a father of three Marines.

02:08We make movies of people like this.

02:11This gentleman is a hero, his family's a hero.

02:14Instead, he's in a nice holding facility in Los Angeles.

02:19But I'm hearing, more stories coming, more Barranco-type families being broken up.

02:27Military families being separated by their loved ones by ICE.

02:32I do not believe President Trump would want his legacy to be that he deported military family

02:38members like Mr. Barranco.

02:42Look, common sense here.

02:46This resolution is not prime time for a vote.

02:50A lot of inaccuracies.

02:52I'm going to ask my colleagues to vote no on this measure.

02:55Mr. Chairman, Mr. Speaker, I yield.

02:58The gentleman from California.