00:00Mr. President, the Senate gavels into session with the conscience
00:05of this nation shaken to its core.
00:10Yesterday, in the Eat Street District of Minneapolis, 37-year-old Alex Preddy was shot
00:15and killed by a Border Patrol agent after he was trying to help a woman.
00:20Thrown to the ground by federal officers.
00:23The many videos of Alex Preddy
00:25and Alex's deaths circulating online are grisly.
00:28They're horrifying.
00:30They appear to show Alex was shot 10 times in less than a year.
00:35Five seconds.
00:36They show he held nothing more than a cell phone.
00:40In his hand.
00:44If we trust our own
00:45eyes and ears instead of Trump administration propaganda,
00:50it's pretty clear that Alex was murdered in broad daylight.
00:55The grief and anger his parents must feel right now must be staggering.
01:00He was a decent young man, an intensive care nurse at the VA who dedicated his life
01:05to helping others.
01:06In fact, the morning after Alex Preddy was shot,
01:10he was killed.
01:11I was at a doctor's appointment.
01:13And as it turned out, my doctor's assistant
01:15was from Minneapolis.
01:16She knew Alex Preddy.
01:18She said he was killed.
01:20He was just the kindest, gentlest soul you'd ever meet.
01:24Not a bad bone.
01:25Not a bad bone in his body.
01:26Alex Preddy did not.
01:30Deserve.
01:31To die.
01:32Nor did Renee Good deserve to die.
01:35Two weeks ago.
01:36Shot in her own car, mere minutes after.
01:40Dropping her kid off at school.
01:43Enough is enough.
01:45And that's what America is saying.
01:48From one end to this country.
01:50To the other.
01:51What ICE and CPP are doing in Minneapolis.
01:55And other cities around the country.
01:57Is not border security.
01:59And certainly not.
02:00Not law and order.
02:01What ICE is doing is lawless disorder.
02:04What ICE is doing is.
02:05state sanctioned thuggery.
02:07And it must be stopped.
02:10ICE must leave Minnesota today.
02:12Not tomorrow.
02:13Not next week.
02:15But today.
02:16There are reports that the president.
02:20Is thinking about.
02:21A reduction.
02:22In force.
02:23In force.
02:24In force.
02:25In force.
02:25In force.
02:26In force.
02:27In force.
02:28In force.
02:29In force.
02:30In force.
02:31In force.
02:32In force.
02:33In force.
02:34In force.
02:35In force.
02:36In force.
02:37In force.
02:38In force.
02:39In force.
02:40In force.
02:41In force.
02:42In force.
02:43In force.
02:44In force.
02:45In force.
02:46In force.
02:47In force.
02:48In force.
02:49In force.
02:50In force.
02:51In force.
02:52In force.
02:53In force.
02:54In force.
02:30ice and immediately turned down the temperature.
02:35Americans support law enforcement.
02:37Americans support common sense border security.
02:39But America...
02:40America does not support ice terrorizing our communities.
02:45That they are justie doing.
02:49I think that's when they're doing well with it.
02:51They're being able to manage their programs.
02:57They are going to get to the hands of the planet,
03:01or they are going to sit down here.
03:04We've got to make a bow to the camera.
03:06We have to make an area for the bank.
03:09That's all that we can buy now.
03:12war in American cities when ice descends upon them.
03:17Black ice SUVs were killed.
03:22Roaming the streets and agents barging into homes without warrants.
03:25Ice encircling...
03:27And killing kids in schools with riot gear and using kids as bait.
03:32And terrorizing...
03:32communities to the point that people are afraid to go to work, to church.
03:37Shop for groceries.
03:42This madness, this terror, must stop.
03:47The American people, Democrat, Republican, Independent, Demand
03:52that the chaos and lawlessness of ice be severely reined in.
03:57This week, the Senate will...
04:02In a few days, the Senate will consider a package of six...
04:07Six funding bills sent to us recently by the House, and five of those bills are ready to go.
04:13And should quickly pass.
04:15I'll say more about that in a moment.
04:17But in the wake of ICE's abuses and the administration's recklessness, the Senate must...
04:22Does not pass.
04:23The DHS budget is currently written and must be...
04:27We...
04:28We...
04:29We worked to rain in and overhaul ICE.
04:32to ensure the public's safety.
04:36The fix
04:37should come from Congress.
04:39The public can't trust the administration
04:41to do the right thing.
04:42The public can't do the right thing on its own.
04:43And Republicans and Democrats must work together.
04:47In the meantime, I will vote no.
04:52On any legislation that funds ICE
04:54until it is reined in an overhauled.
04:57Senate Democrats are overwhelmingly
04:59united on this issue.
05:02I should meet the same basic standards
05:05of accountability and due
05:07in the process that any law enforcement agency
05:09is asked to meet.
05:12Now, separately, to finish the appropriations process,
05:16Leader Thune should
05:17split the funding bills
05:18and move forward with the five
05:21that already have
05:22and have broad support from both parties.
05:25If Leader Thune agrees to split the
05:27bills, just as Speaker Johnson split them
05:29in the House and puts the five
05:32on the floor, I'm confident they will
05:35sail, sail through the-
05:37of the chamber, and we will have funded 96% of the-
05:42federal government.
05:47But if Leader Thune insists on holding a vote on-
05:52DHS legislation that he knows will not pass.
05:57Then he will guarantee yet another unnecessary government shutdown this Friday
06:02and the shutdown will be on Leader Thune's shoulders.
06:07Leader Thune's choice is very simple.
06:10Move the five bills that are ready
06:12and fund 96% of the government while we work to improve the-
06:17DHS bill, the Homeland Security bill, or Thune can trigger a shutdown.
06:22By forcing a vote on a bill everyone knows cannot pass at this moment.
06:27It is a combined bill that contains DHS.
06:31The ball-
06:32As well as in Leader Thune's court, he must quickly move to-
06:37to prevent a shutdown.
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07:08we must also be candid.
07:10It is bone-chilling that in the aftermath
07:13of the killings in Minneapolis.
07:16Some of the Trump officials
07:18have chosen to blatantly
07:23lie to the American people
07:24like full-fledged authoritarians.
07:28Stephen Miller raced to Twitter
07:31to call Alex.
07:33A would-be assassin
07:34who tried to murder
07:36federal law enforcement.
07:38If you'd watched the videos
07:39of the killing,
07:41you'd know this is an outlandish,
07:43and shocking
07:43and totally dishonest,
07:45despicable thing to say.
07:48Meanwhile, Gregory Bravino,
07:50Donald Trump's top border patrol officer,
07:53also claimed,
07:54without a shred of evidence,
07:56that Preddy wanted to do
07:57massive work.
07:58Maximum damage
07:58and massacre law enforcement.
08:01And then, of course,
08:02there's Christie Noah.
08:03Merely hours after Preddy's death.
08:07No one...
08:08claimed again without so much
08:09as a morsel of evidence
08:10that he had committed
08:12an act...
08:13an act of domestic terrorism
08:14and wanted to perpetrate violence.
08:18You know what the reaction
08:19of these Trump officials,
08:20too many of them,
08:21seems to be
08:22when...
08:23something terrible happens,
08:24to lie about it.
08:26That's their immediate reaction.
08:28not to find the truth,
08:29not to express any sympathy
08:31to those who are dead.
08:33but to lie, lie, lie.
08:37It's despicable...
08:38It's so un-American.
08:40It's so different
08:41than what we have seen...
08:43in so many previous administrations.
08:47Lies.
08:48All of it.
08:48Just blatant,
08:49blatant, sickening lies.
08:53And that
08:53is what
08:55these administration officials
08:57or...
08:58almost automatically turn to
08:59when there's difficulty
09:01and there's trouble.
09:03Kristi Noem is a liar.
09:06She's vicious.
09:07She's also...
09:08incompetent.
09:09Donald Trump must fire her
09:10at once
09:11before another American...
09:13is killed under her watch.
09:17So I'll say...
09:18it again.
09:19It's bone-chilling
09:20that Donald Trump's goons
09:22will...
09:23so eagerly
09:24and almost lazily
09:25lie
09:25right to the public's face.
09:28Right to the public's face.
09:31And where is the accountability?
09:33from Donald Trump.
09:34He said nothing
09:35to call out
09:36the nastiness
09:37and lies
09:38from Noem and Miller.
09:40It seems he almost
09:41prefers to have
09:42serial...
09:43liars
09:43in his administration
09:44than honest people.
09:48This kind of dishonesty
09:48we see from
09:49Kristi Noem
09:50and Stephen Miller
09:51is the bread and butter
09:52of authority.
09:53authoritarian regimes
09:54and it's dangerous,
09:56dangerous territory.
09:58for our country.
10:00When a government
10:01tells its people
10:02ignore...
10:03ignore what your eyes
10:04see
10:04and forget
10:05what your ears hear.
10:07Just listen to us
10:08instead
10:08then for all practical purposes
10:11it's not trying to act
10:13like a government
10:13in a democracy.
10:15This is how dictatorships operate.
10:18and we're seeing
10:19the signs
10:20right in front of us
10:21here in America.
10:23The right answer of course
10:24is to meet the lies
10:26with truth.
10:27Here in this...
10:28Senate
10:28the American people
10:29deserve to hear
10:30that truth
10:30under oath
10:31when Kristi...
10:33Noem
10:33and other administration
10:34officials testify
10:35as soon as possible.
10:37And of course...
10:38Across America
10:38the people
10:39must keep defending
10:40the truth.
10:41They should show...
10:41They should keep showing up...
10:43lawfully
10:43in documenting
10:44abuses by ICE.
10:46They must continue
10:47to protest...
10:48peacefully
10:48and non-violently
10:49to exercise
10:50their rights
10:51to free speech
10:52and...
10:53free assembly
10:53to protect
10:55their communities
10:55from the abuses
10:57of...
10:58of this thuggish government.
11:00It may feel to many
11:02like the flame of...
11:03democracy
11:03is flickering
11:04into extinction
11:05before our eyes
11:06and that there's
11:06no way to fight back.
11:08That is wrong.
11:10The good people
11:11of Minneapolis
11:12and...
11:13so many cities
11:13around the country
11:14have shown the answer
11:16to authoritarianism.
11:18Hold firm.
11:19Tell the truth.
11:21Look out for one another.
11:23Organize.
11:24Protest.
11:24And when the time comes
11:26exercise your...
11:28greatest power of all.
11:29Go to the ballot box
11:31and vote.
11:32Vote.
11:33And vote out the liars.
11:35I yield the floor.
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