But you cannot have an agency that has no oversight and that has no sense of Democratic accountability. Let me agree with everything that Roja said, but say this. I was proud to have introduced an amendment which ended up getting the support of all the Democrats and a couple of Republicans, which essentially did away with all of the new funding that ICE received. Second of all, I want you all to understand that what Trump is doing on immigration is part of a bigger picture and a movement toward authoritarianism. What demagogues? (44:45–44:59)
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Asserts that Bernie Sanders introduced an amendment to eliminate new ICE funding, supported by Democrats and some Republicans.
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