Eric Swalwell: ICE Agents Are Running Around ‘Like Masked Bank Robbers Terrorizing Women’

Swalwell: “And these ICE agents running around our communities like masked bank robbers, terrorizing women, they’re going to get themselves hurt — and I hope that doesn’t happen. And we’re already seeing women are being targeted by people who are impersonating ICE agents. I hope every state that is able to, and every community that is able to, unmasks ICE with their policies. If you’re standing on the law, you can show your face. The FBI, they’re probably doing a search and seizure right now at some dangerous criminal’s home. They’re not masked. They loudly on their blue jackets have that yellow insignia that says FBI. No other law enforcement agency in America runs around our communities masked. It’s time that we unmask ICE. This is an administration that does not want to be held accountable. Secretary Noem does not want to come in and testify. Stephen Miller certainly doesn’t want to sit in that chair and defend putting this 6-year-old battling leukemia into deportation proceedings. Tom Homan doesn’t want to come here and defend why he thinks it’s OK to target people based on their accent and the color of their skin. Yes, he said that. Thankfully, a California court has shut that down, and hopefully more lawsuits are brought across America to shut that down. But my Republican colleagues in Congress, they don’t work for the administration. They are theoretically an independent Branch of government, Article I, the preeminent Branch of government. So why do they go for this? Why do they enable this? Why aren’t they outraged that this 6-year-old boy was in a condition where children are crying every night and experiencing bone pain as he fights cancer? This issue is pretty simple. Go after the worst and protect the most vulnerable, the ones who are contributing to our community.”