00:00Yesterday, Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, who for some reason still has a job,
00:05she should have been fired long ago, announced that all federal immigration agents in Minneapolis
00:10are going to begin wearing body cameras. I want to be very clear about something.
00:16Kristi Noem does not get participation points by saying agents are going to start doing something
00:21they should have done all along. And why just Minneapolis? This policy, which is the right
00:28policy, should be nationwide. There's no reason to delay that. Most importantly, executive actions
00:37alone will never be enough for the American people. We need to pass legislation. We know
00:42how whimsical Donald Trump is. He'll say one thing one day and retract it the next. Same with
00:49Secretary Noem. So we don't trust some executive order, some pronouncement from some cabinet
00:55secretary. We need it enshrined into law. And what Democrats want is exceedingly common
01:03sense. We need to end the roving patrols. This means we need arrest warrants and an end to
01:09racial profiling. Second, we need accountability. ICE needs to abide by the same rules as local
01:17police, including embedded investigations. And there has to be real accountability forcing
01:22them to do so when they don't. And third, masks need to come off and cameras need to stay
01:29on. Every police officer, every ICE officer should do what every police officer or just
01:34about every police officer in America does have an ID. Every citizen knows when they meet
01:41a police officer or sheriff, their ID is clear on them. That's always been the accountability
01:50that we've had for decades and decades. And Noem thinks, and some people think, like Speaker
01:58Johnson thinks, we shouldn't do it. Why is Johnson pro-secret police? It's absurd for the Speaker
02:06and others like him to argue that masked ICE agents should get special treatment and be held
02:12to a different standard from just about every law enforcement agency in the country. Sheriffs,
02:16local police, traffic cops. You don't see them with masks, do you? No. Defending ICE agents wearing
02:25masks and giving them special treatment, especially when they're so brutal and thuggy, is totally
02:32against the views of most Americans who want basic accountability. Anyone defending ICE agents
02:38keeping their masks on is not seriously trying to solve this huge problem of chaos we have seen
02:44in Minneapolis and so many of our other cities when ICE is sent in there. And it begs the question,
02:53why are some Republicans speaking so loudly trying to defend masked secret police? Is it that these
03:01new ICE hires weren't qualified as police officers at other departments? Could it be that some of them
03:07were kicked out of police departments? And then they signed up to snatch people off the streets and beat
03:15protesters up with impunity? Because that's what they wanted to do? The American people have a right to
03:21know and the first step is identifying who they are. And finally, I want to make one other very
03:29important point. Since the death of Alex Preddy and Renee Good, nothing meaningful has changed about ICE's abuses.
03:38Nothing meaningful has changed about ICE's abuses, even since the deaths of Preddy and Good. Last week in
03:47Portland, Oregon, federal agents fired tear gas at a crowd of demonstrators that included children. There's a video
03:54circulating online of an agent, Colorado, stealing a woman's phone when she tried to get it back. The agent
04:00shoved her to the ground, yanked her by the hair, and then battered her. If you saw that video, it turned
04:07your stomach. And Greg Bovino, the disgraced chief thug, former head of the Border Patrol, is seen in another
04:18video trying to motivate agents by saying, quote, this is what Bovino said, arrest as many people who
04:25touch you as you want. Those are the general orders way from the top. This is absolutely not, not, not
04:32what the American people signed up for. Republicans in Congress need to see the chaos and realize it's
04:40finally time for ICE to be reined in.
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