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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Senate Democrats are united behind a set of reforms aimed at reining in ICE operations and ending what they describe as escalating violence. Schumer called for ending roving patrols, tightening warrant rules, and requiring ICE to coordinate closely with state and local law enforcement.

He also pushed for stronger accountability, including a uniform code of conduct, mandatory body cameras, and an end to agents wearing masks. Schumer warned Democrats could block DHS funding unless transparency and oversight measures are adopted, saying public trust and civil liberties must come first.

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00:00What the American people are seeing right now is not just horrifying, it's a
00:05direct result of choices and policies implemented by the
00:10Trump administration.
00:12The killings of Renee Goode and Alex Prettian
00:15Minneapolis, tragic killings seen now by millions and millions of Americans.
00:20Americans are horrific and can never be accepted, and it helps imp-
00:25Portune us to rein in ISIS.
00:30And end the violence.
00:33Under President Trump, Secretary Noe
00:35and Stephen Miller, ISIS has been unleashed without-
00:40They violate constitutional rights all the time.
00:45And they're deliberately refusing to coordinate with state and local-
00:50law enforcement.
00:51This is not border security.
00:53This is-
00:55This is not law and order.
00:56This is chaos.
00:58Created at the-
01:00backed at the top and felt in so many of our neighborhoods.
01:03Americans-
01:05support law enforcement and secure borders but they do not support a federal
01:10agency that routinely operates above the law.
01:15They do not support Americans getting killed on their streets and in their
01:20neighborhoods.
01:21What ICE is doing is state-sanctioned
01:25buggery.
01:26It must stop.
01:30Republicans must work with Democrats to find legislative solutions to
01:35restore order and public safety.
01:37Congress has the authority and the moral
01:40obligation to act.
01:43What's missing is Republican
01:45will to act.
01:46After talking with my caucus,
01:50Senate Democrats are united on a set of common sense and necessary
01:55policy goals that we need to rein in ICE and end the violence.
02:00Our caucus is unified over three main legislative objectives.
02:05First, we want to end roving patrols.
02:10We need to tighten the rules governing the use of warrants and
02:14require ICE's
02:15coordination with state and local law enforcement.
02:19Second,
02:20we want to enforce accountability.
02:23There needs to be a uniform
02:25code of conduct and accountability.
02:28Federal agents should be held to
02:30the same use of force policies that apply to state and local law enforcement.
02:35and be held accountable when they violate
02:40state and local law enforcement.
02:41These rules, including independent, we need an independent investigations.
02:45to help enforce accountability.
02:48Third,
02:49we want
02:50we want
02:51masks off,
02:52body cameras on.
02:53Federal
02:54aid
02:55intelligence must be prohibited from wearing masks.
02:58They must be required to use body cameras.
03:00And they also always have to carry proper identification.
03:05no more anonymous agents, no more secret operatives.
03:10These
03:11are common sense reforms, ones that Americans know and expect from law enforcement.
03:15if Republicans refuse to support them, they are choosing
03:20chaos over order, plain and simple.
03:23They are choosing to protect ICE from
03:25accountability and accountability over American lives.
03:28Let me be clear.
03:29Let me be clear.
03:30Democrats stand ready today to pass the five bipartisan
03:35bills in the Senate.
03:36But the DHS bill needs serious work.
03:40Republicans
03:41and Republicans and Democrats alike owe it to the American people.
03:45get it
03:46right.
03:47It's
03:48now on leader Thune
03:49to
03:50separate
03:51out
03:52the DHS bill
03:53just as Speaker Johnson did in the House.
03:55Congress
03:56and
03:57start working with Democrats
03:58to
03:59rain
04:00in
04:01ice
04:02impose
04:03and
04:04in
04:05the
04:08The American people deserve it.
04:13The American people deserve it.
04:18The American people deserve it.
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