00:00I rise today to dissent. This week, six members of the U.S. Supreme Court decided to allow
00:09ice raids in Los Angeles that are rooted in racial profiling. This is a direct assault
00:17on our Constitution on the very idea of equal justice under law. Justice Sonia Sotomayor
00:25said it best when she wrote, and I quote, we should not have to live in a country where the
00:32government can seize anyone who looks Latino, who speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low-wage
00:38job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.
00:46And I agree and join that dissent. These raids are not about law and order. They are about
00:52targeting immigrants because of the color of their skin, the language they speak, the
00:56neighborhoods they live in, and the jobs they hold. I dissent. ICE is not chasing criminals.
01:04It is chasing families. I dissent. Nationwide, 71% of those in ICE custody at the end of July
01:14had no criminal convictions. Think about that. Tens of thousands of lies upended. Children left
01:21without parents, families torn apart, not because of what people did, because of who they are. That
01:27does not make us safer. It makes us weaker. It destabilizes our schools, our neighborhoods,
01:32and our workplaces. It harms industries that keep our economy running. Construction, agriculture,
01:39hospitality, all while wasting taxpayer dollars on cruelty instead of real public safety.
01:45I dissent. Families across this country now live in fear because their very existence has been
01:53criminalized. This is not justice. This is persecution. I dissent.
02:03Six members of the Supreme Court may have turned its back on equal justice, but Congress cannot.
02:09We must defend the Constitution, protect immigrant families, and ensure that no American community
02:15is left to live under the shadow of racial profiling in immigration enforcement. For those reasons,
02:23I join Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and I say, I dissent.
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