That's what it means to, in my opinion, to represent the district with the Statue of Liberty out there in the harbor at this moment, when people can see what an overbearing, you know, increasingly fascist federal state is doing. We've got about 75,000 people in ICE detention right now, twice as many as ever. Two weeks ago, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District, Jake Carson, had to tell the judge, your Honor, the memo ICE gave me a year ago saying they have the authority to arrest people in the hallways of immigration courts. (08:01–08:08)
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Asserts that there are currently about 75,000 people in ICE detention, which is twice as many as ever before.
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