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Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has criticized recent ICE immigration enforcement operations, saying immigration arrests have surged to the highest level of the current administration. Durbin argued that officials may have believed the public would not notice the renewed enforcement activity, adding, "America noticed." His remarks come amid renewed national debate over immigration policy, border security, and federal enforcement priorities.

The comments have reignited political divisions over immigration, with supporters arguing for stronger enforcement and critics raising concerns about the scale and impact of ICE operations. Watch this report for the latest developments, Durbin's full remarks, and reactions from across the political spectrum.

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00:00Murders, terrorists, criminally insane, and predators.
00:05The worst of the worst.
00:07That's who we're going after.
00:08He said it over and over and over again.
00:11Mr. President, roughly a year ago, President Trump made good on his mass deportation now
00:18promise.
00:19It was a campaign pledge when he unleashed ICE into cities across the country to carry
00:26out his brutal immigration crackdown.
00:30In its wake, including in the city of Chicago, the so-called worst of the worst.
00:36Remember?
00:37The President said he was going after those who were rapists, murderers, terrorists, criminally
00:43insane, and predators.
00:45The worst of the worst.
00:47That's who we're going after.
00:48He said it over and over and over again.
00:52It turns out the worst of the worst didn't fit in that category at all.
00:58Who were they?
01:00Some were U.S. citizens, legal residents, and people with no prior criminal history whatsoever.
01:08None.
01:10And the administration brutally carried out this political theater by deploying military-grade
01:16weapons and using overwhelming displays of force that left communities and our country
01:23on edge.
01:24I saw it firsthand in the city of Chicago.
01:28Operation Midway Blitz.
01:31In our Hispanic neighborhoods, people were afraid to come out to go to church.
01:36Afraid to send their kids to school.
01:39Were these criminals who were harboring their children from going to school?
01:42Hardly.
01:44There were people who worked in common jobs every single day, who stood next to you in
01:50the line in the grocery store, and who was with you in the pew at church on Sunday.
01:57Worst of the worst didn't hold up at all.
02:02At its peak, tensions boiled over with the killings of two American citizens at that time.
02:08We saw them in real time and videotape.
02:11Renee Good and Alex Preddy in Minnesota.
02:16After the public outcry, these ICE raids were quietly scaled back by the Trump administration
02:23and Stephen Miller.
02:24But now, Stephen Miller, the President's domestic advisor, and Secretary of the Department of
02:31Homeland Security, Mullen, are quietly resuming these efforts.
02:36With immigration arrests surging this month to the highest levels in this administration.
02:43I assume they felt that America just wouldn't notice if they went back in business.
02:47But we have.
02:50In the last two weeks, two fatal shootings by ICE agents in Texas and Maine have thrust this
02:56government's tactics back into the spotlight.
02:59Earlier this month, ICE shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Arroyo during a traffic stop in Houston.
03:07Mr. Arroyo had lived in the country for more than 30 years and was not the intended target
03:13of the operation.
03:15He is survived by his children who were U.S. citizens.
03:21Instead of investigating the ICE agents detained and the witnesses around the scene, the Harris
03:28County District Attorney has said these witnesses are critical to the investigation, but they've
03:33been detained by the ICE agents.
03:36And last week, Joan Sebastian Guerrero was also shot and killed while in his vehicle in Maine.
03:48He is survived by his wife and their three-year-old daughter, who will now grow up without a father.
03:56The ICE agent who fatally shot Mr. Guerrero was hired by the Trump administration despite
04:02the fact that he has a long history of domestic violence, abuse, and mental health issues.
04:09Yes, a man with long history of mental abuse and domestic violence was hired as an ICE agent,
04:16given a gun and a mask.
04:20It's not clear whether ICE simply failed to vet him or identified these issues and ignored
04:26them.
04:28DHS quickly rushed to claim that both shootings were justified without any body-worn camera
04:34footage or any serious investigation.
04:37You know, it's interesting, this agency, which is actively trying to arrest, detain, and deport
04:43thousands of people, meaning quotas set by Stephen Miller each day.
04:48The agents involved in this are not like your hometown police.
04:52They're not like your state police either.
04:54We know that their background checks are obviously very weak.
04:58The training is limited.
05:00We also know that when they're on the job, on the clock, they're wearing masks.
05:10When's the last time your local police wore masks in your hometown?
05:14How about your state troopers when they pull you over on the highway?
05:17Are they wearing masks?
05:19Of course not.
05:21But this is insisted on because these ICE agents are so notorious.
05:27These fatalities I've talked about could have been avoided.
05:30These people could be alive today.
05:33After the killings of Renee Goode and Alex Preddy, we tried time and again to get our Republican
05:40colleagues to sit down and agree just on some basics.
05:44Without a search warrant or arrest warrant, a person posing to be a policeman should not be
05:50crashing down the door of your home.
05:53That's pretty basic, isn't it?
05:55If there's a warrant or extraordinary circumstances, it's one thing.
06:00But the ICE agents crash down the door of people that they suspect might be in the United States undocumented.
06:08Many times they're just plain wrong.
06:10Sometimes those homeowners turn out to be U.S. citizens.
06:14And yet when we sit down and say that should be basic in America, shouldn't it?
06:19If someone's going to invade my home with my wife and my kids or grandkids there, for goodness sakes they
06:25ought to have at least the color of law behind them.
06:28The support of the court behind them.
06:30Not ICE agents.
06:33Empowering a note.
06:33In every instance we've tried to make these changes, simple, common sense law enforcement
06:38changes, the Republicans said no.
06:41Instead the administration has lurched in the opposite direction.
06:46Enabling these abuses to continue.
06:49On the heels of these back-to-back killings, which I have described, ICE temporarily paused traffic stops.
06:56But President Trump quickly took to social media to personally reverse that decision.
07:03The President said, quote, the men and women of ICE are doing a great job, despite the recent reports of
07:10the killings.
07:11And we cannot give up one of ICE's most important and effective crime-fighting tools, the President said, the traffic
07:18stop.
07:20Being pulled over and shot in your car has to be part of the strategy of ICE, according to the
07:28President.
07:29Traffic stops have been among the deadliest tactics during this President's mass raids, but apparently he doesn't care.
07:36And according to the New York Times just yesterday, the FBI has informed its agents around the country that the
07:45FBI would no longer investigate alleged assaults by immigration agents.
07:52Why is that important? I'll tell you.
07:54This change will sharply limit law enforcement scrutiny of ICE agents.
07:59For years, the Department of Justice's involvement in officer-involved shootings has provided an independent set of eyes and often
08:06uncovered crucial facts,
08:08including misconduct by federal officers, misconduct that has been evident in recent cases.
08:15The Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General has at least agreed to investigate the use of excessive force
08:24by ICE agents.
08:25But it is unacceptable that the government's top law enforcement agency, the FBI, has reportedly chosen to ignore its mission
08:33to enforce the law and instead does the White House bidding.
08:39At a time when the American people are demanding more transparency and answers, the administration gives us less.
08:45We mourn the loss of these beloved community members and Senate Democrats who will continue to call for an end
08:53to these fatal raids.
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