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Chris Armstrong: “ICE needs to be melted into slag. It is irredeemable.”

Featuring: Chris Armstrong, Democratic | Candidate, U.S. House Wisconsin, 7th Congressional District

Meet WI Congressional Candidate Chris Armstrong

Published February 12, 2026 | Video Starts at 35:58

… day and the next day and the next day so that they show up every goddamn day. I don't. I don't get that. And then my opinion is, you know, ICE needs to be melted into slag. It is irredeemable. Yeah. It cannot be reformed. You may have heard that the two CBP officers that executed Alex Preddy were 8 and 12 years veterans. Yeah. They were not new hires. (35:58–36:04)

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Asserts that ICE is irredeemable and should be dismantled.

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“ICE has had the higher, highest rate, has a higher rate of committing crimes than immigrants do.”
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“Apparently ICE and CBP officers are arrested for a crime nationally every 24 to 36 hours.”
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“Most new businesses are started by more than immigrants than by natural born citizens.”
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“DHS is funded at such a level through just September 2029 that even if DHS closed, they have enough money to keep doing their Nazi shit for…”
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“They want to increase the defense budget by a half a trillion dollars for next year.”
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“My dad ended up enlisting as an officer in the Air Force.”
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“He got a job with Northwest Airlines, since acquired by Delta.”
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“This is my third company. This is our 20th year of being in business.”
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“Unconstitutional, illegal, UN American executive orders came out on day one, after the inauguration.”
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“Democrats were in power, but they were doing nothing.”
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“The Supreme Court election was coming up in, you know, for April 1st was between Susan Crawford and Brad Schimmel.”
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“The U.S. election Administration of elections is local and State, of course, Trump wants to nationalize that, which again is anti…”
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“The SAVE act is just a huge big pile of misogynistic not, not to, you know, notwithstanding that J.D. Vance wouldn't be able to vote…”
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“There is a demographic shift happening in the United States and it's happened over the course of the history of the United States. But you…”
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“The infrastructure itself is pretty decentralized.”
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“You hear threats about, you know, Bannon saying that, you know, send out ICE agents to, you know, monitor polling places. There are not…”
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“Collusion or conspiracy between the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security.”
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“If you provide us your roles for Medicaid and SNAP benefits, you repeal all of your sanctuary laws and give us your voter rolls. Yeah…”
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“Pam Bondi needs to be impeached.”
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“Christy Noem needs to be impeached. Pete Hegseth needs to be impeached. Mark Rubio needs to be impeached.”
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“Merrick Garland did not. I don't know, he probably wasn't the right guy for the moment.”
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“Blue states can do [certification and third-party challenges for voter eligibility] to tighten things up.”
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“Probably wouldn't get that done in Wisconsin because we still have a Republican, you know, majority legislature.”
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“I think the Wisconsin Senate and Assembly is going to get flipped this fall.”
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“The whole basis of [Trump and DHS's] position is all based on a lie.”
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“There's clearly a cabal of rich people that because of their position and power and money are able to get away with raping children.”
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“The sweetheart deal that Alex Acosta came up with, you know, in Miami, I mean, it's just so freaking shady.”
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“Bondi has been responding and Todd Blanche, I mean, they're just bald-faced liars.”
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“The Democrats should be using every mechanism in their thing, whether it's soft or hard to, you know, to basically get these bastards to…”
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“The time of normal business as usual is freaking over.”
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“I founded New Richmond Indivisible.”
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“We are now having [protests] every week.”
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“The theme is Ice out for good.”
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“Particularly with the escalation of ICE enforcement in Minneapolis St. Paul, that has spilled over to Sacro County, Wisconsin.”
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“They're picking up people in Hudson, Baldwin, River Falls.”
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“It cannot be reformed. You may have heard that the two CBP officers that executed Alex Preddy were 8 and 12 years veterans.”
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“Christy Noem is trying to destroy [FEMA] anyway.”
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“When I win and represent the 7th district of Wisconsin, my presence will mean nothing without the support of the people.”
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“We've gotten pretty complacent and decadent, I think, in the incredible lifestyle and standard of living we've had here in the US post World…”
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“Democracy is not a spectator support. That's what I've learned. It is a full contact participation.”
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“I am having a fundraising concert here in New Richmond, Wisconsin on March 13th.”
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“A big part of running a particularly congressional race is you got to be. The candidate must be on the phone raising money.”
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“Trump won, to be quite honest, and the, you know, the 2024 election.”
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